Talk:Duke of Exeter
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Could we have information on whether any of these people had any connection with Exeter, if it's available, please? Thanks. seglea 01:22, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Hmm...peers generally don't have much connection to the locations of their titles. In the middle ages, Earls generally had the "half-penny" of their county, but the Dukes of Exeter weren't Earls of Devon. The Holland ones were actually Earls of Huntingdon, and presumably had the income of Huntingdon (and Thomas Beaufort was Earl of Dorset, so same deal). The Courtenays held the Earldom of Devon, and presumably had the half-penny for that county. So probably nothing. john 01:42, 6 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I happened upon a partial answer to your question. The well-known 19th century historian E.A. Freeman wrote a book about the city of Exeter, and on p. 88 he says "The accession of Edward's son Richard to the kingdom again united the lordship of Exeter with the crown. And in his day the name of the city first became a mere honorary title of peerage. The King's half-brother John Holland now appears as Duke of Exeter. But he was not so wholly a stranger as some later lords to whom the city has given a title; Duke John built himself a house within the precincts of Rougemont." see http://books.google.com/books?id=8-MBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA88 Loren Rosen 18:45, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
