Earl Of Shrewsbury. Earl Of Waterford. Earl Talbot. (Part One).

Arms of Talbot-Chetwynd.

Quarterly:

1st and 4th: Gules, a Lion Rampant

within a Bordure Engrailed Or (for Talbot).

2nd and 3rd: Azure, a Chevron

between three Mullets Or (for Chetwynd).

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Earl of Shrewsbury [2] is a hereditary title of nobility created twice in the Peerage of England. The second Earldom dates to 1442.

The holder of the Earldom of Shrewsbury also holds the title of Earl of Waterford (1446) in the Peerage of Ireland and Earl Talbot (1784) in the Peerage of Great Britain. 

Shrewsbury and Waterford are the oldest Earldoms in their peerages held by someone with no higher title (the oldest Earldoms in each peerage being held by the Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Leinster), and as such the Earl of Shrewsbury is sometimes described as the premier Earl of England and Ireland.[3][4]

Arms of Talbot.

Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or.[7] 

These were the Paternal Arms of Gwenllian, the daughter and heiress of Rhys Mechyll (died 1244), Prince of the Welsh House of Deheubarth, grandson of Rhys ap Gruffydd, and wife of Gilbert Talbot (died 1274), grandfather of Gilbert Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot (died 1345), assumed by Talbot as Arms of Alliance of a great heiress, who superseded his own former Paternal Arms of Barry of six Argent and Gules.[8][9][10][11] 

The assumption about Gwenllian, however, was unfounded 

as Rhys Mechyll also had male heirs[12] who acceded to the Arms of the House of Deheubarth.

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The first creation occurred in 1074 for Roger de Montgomerie, one of William the Conqueror’s principal Counsellors. 

He was one of the Marcher Lords, with the Earl of Hereford and the Earl of Chester, a bulwark against the Welsh; he was granted great powers, and his territory, which extended from Shropshire (of which Shrewsbury is the County Town) into Mid-Wales (the County of Montgomeryshire being named after him), was outside the ordinary administration; he was also granted lands across England.

Roger was succeeded in 1094 by his younger son Hugh, his elder son Robert of Bellême succeeding to his lands in Normandy. On Hugh’s death in 1098, the Earldom passed to his brother Robert.

The title was forfeit in 1102 after the 3rd Earl, Robert, rebelled against Henry I and joined Robert Curthose’s invasion of England in 1101.

Coronet of a British Earl.

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The title was created for a second time in 1442, when John Talbot, 7th Baron Talbot, an English General in the Hundred Years' War, was made Earl of Shrewsbury in the Peerage of England. 

He was also made hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland and, in 1446, Earl of Waterford in the Peerage of Ireland (thus, the two titles have always descended together).[5]

PART TWO FOLLOWS.