Reginald de Dunstanville, 1st Earl of Cornwall Chamberlain". Reginald's sister was Rohesia, wife of Henry de Pomeroy (died c.1135), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy in Devon. Reginald was invested with the Earldom of Cornwall by his first cousin (by blood) King Stephen (1135–1154), son of Henry I's sister Adela, Countess of Blois. He later supported Stephen's enemy and claimant of the English throne, the Empress Matilda, only legitimate daughter of Henry I, and thus by order of Stephen he forfeited his lands and honours. In about 1173 he granted a charter to his free burgesses of Truro in Cornwall, and addressed his meetings at Truro to "All
Henry of Bohemia appointed his brother-in-law regent. Upon Wenceslaus' assassination on August 4, the Přemyslids became extinct in the male line and Henry was elected his successor by the Bohemian nobility—against the will of his former ally King Albert I of Germany, who intended to install his eldest son Rudolf of Habsburg on the Bohemian throne. King Albert's troops immediately campaigned Bohemia, besieged Prague Castle and deposed Henry, who had to yield to their superior forces. Nevertheless, Rudolf of Habsburg (mocked as "král kaše", "King Porridge") was never accepted by the Bohemian nobles, and after his sudden death on 4 July 1307, Henry