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DUKE SHREWSBURY
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SHREWSBURY, DUKE ,OF Abbey in Io83. His first wife was Mabel, daughter of the seigneur of Belesme and Alencon; hence his son Robert, who, after the death of another son, Hugh, succeeded to the earldoms of Shrewsbury and Arundel, was generally known as Robert de Belesme (q.v.), one of the most celebrated of the feudal nobles in the time of Henry I. Robert having been deprived of all his English estates and honours in 1102, the earldom of Shrewsbury was next conferred in 1442 on John, 5th baron Talbot, whose descendants have borne the title to the present day. (See TALBOT; and SHREWSBURY, IST EARL OF, below.)