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• Bryan Cornwall
  Birth 1315 Cornwall, England
  Death 1392, Aged 77 years
  Parents:
  Edmund De Cornwall 1272 -- 22 MAR 1353
  Elizabeth Brampton 12 DEC 1294 --
  Spouse Maude Strange
  Birth 1323 Blakemore, Herefordshire, England
  Death England
  Parents:
  Fulk le Strange abt 1267 -- bef 23 JAN 1324
  Eleanor Giffard abt 1275 -- 23 JAN 1324
  --   Our Family Tree, accessed 4 August 2016, http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/Maude-Strange/p587417
  
  Bryan/Brian Cornwall was the Sheriff of Shropshire, as was his son John after him.  Some sources also say he was born in Shropshire, rather than Cornwall, as reported in some genealogies.
  
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  Brian de Cornwall of Outragorther, Kinlet
  
  Sir George Blount, of Kinlet, was descended from Sir John Blount, of Sodington, (temp. E. III.) by his 2nd wife, Isabel, only daughter of Sir Brian Cornwall, of Kinlet; on the failure of the male line of the Cornwalls, the Kinlet estates thus came to this branch of the Blounts, who marked their descent by quartering the arms of Cornwall with Blount, and are now represented in the female line by Mr. Childe, of Kinlet.
  --  Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection, 1879, Allen County Public Library, digitized 2014, p 48, https://archive.org/stream/transactionsofsh12shro/transactionsofsh12shro_djvu.txt
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  As a result of Salisbury's petition of Oct. 1377, a writ of scire facias was issued for delivery to [the Earl of] March by Sir Brian Cornwall, Sheriff of Shropshire, to compel the earl's attendance of parliament in 1378.  Cornwall reported that the writ was undelivered because the person it specified did not have lands in his bailiwick.  March attended the following parliament in 1379.
  
  --  Gwilym Dodd, "Private Petitions in Parliament," Justice and Grace, Oxford Univ Press, 2007, p 160, Google Books, accessed 4 August 2016, https://books.google.com/books?id=WzUTDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA160&dq=Dodd+%22lands+in+his+bailiwick%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjfqJfhvqjOAhVBTmMKHW7WAFgQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=Dodd%20%22lands%20in%20his%20bailiwick%22&f=false
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  The following excerpt from the History of Parliament about Sir John Cornwall has info pertaining to his parents Sir Brian and Maude LeStrange, including an exact date of death for Brian, which is often the year 1392 in various references.
  
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  CORNWALL, Sir John (c.1366-1414), of Kinlet, Salop [Shropshire].
  [MP for] Shropshire 1402, 1407
  b. c.1366, s. and h. of Sir Brian Cornwall of Kinlet by Maud [Le Strange], da. of Fulk, 1st Lord Strange of Blackmere
  m1 bef. 1390, Joan, da. and h. of Sir William Wasteneys of Eastham, Worcs. by Alice, da. of Walter Hewet, 2da
  m2? bef. 1397, Maud
  Kntd. by Sept. 1399
  Sheriff, Salop 30 Sept. 1399-24 Nov. 1400, 5 Nov. 1403-18 Jan. 1404, 22 Nov. 1405-5 Nov. 1406
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  Cornwall's grandfather, Sir Edmund Cornwall (d. 1354) of Thonock (Lincolnshire) and Kinlet, was the son of an illegitimate son of Richard, King of the Romans and earl of Cornwall, so he himself could claim descent from King John. His father's eldest brother, Sir Edmund, died without issue, and the bulk of the family estates (with the exception of Thonock which passed to another brother and his descendants) reverted to Sir Brian and then, at his death on 5 May 1391, to John himself.
  
  Cornwall thus inherited the manors of Asthall and Idbury in Oxfordshire, Ashton in Herefordshire, Kinlet, a moiety of the vill of Worthen and part of Caus Forest in Shropshire and other properties in the marches. He had already agreed, however, that his mother should keep two-thirds of Ashton for life, over and above her dower portion.
  
  --  The History of Parliament II:661-2, y, by Roskell, Clark & Rawcliffe, eds, 1993, published by Boydell and Brewer, accessed 4 August 2016, http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/cornwall-sir-john-1366-1414
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