Earl Richard Plantagenet
- Born: 5 January 1209, Winchester, Hampshire
- Died: 2 April 1272, Berkhamstead Castle, Hertfordshire aged 63
- Buried: 13 April 1272, Hailes Abbey, Hailes, Gloucestershire
 General Notes:
Richard of Cornwall was Count of Poitou (from 1225 to 1243), 1st Earl of Cornwall (from 1225) and German King (formally "King of the Romans", from 1257). He founded Burnham Abbey in Buckinghamshire in 1263, and the Grashaus, Aachen in 1266.
In December 1271, he had a stroke. His right side was paralyzed and he lost the ability to speak. On 2 April 1272, Richard died at Berkhamsted Castle in Hertfordshire. He was buried next to his second wife Sanchia of Provence and Henry of Almain, his son by his first wife, at Hailes Abbey, which he had founded.
Richard had the reputation of being a womanizer. His mistress, Joan de Valletort, was certainly the mother of at least two of his illegitimate children.
Noted events in his life were:
• Marriage: to Isabel Marshal, 30 May 1231, Fawley, Buckinghamshire.
• Marriage: to Sanchia of Provence, 23 November 1243, Westminster Abbey, Middlesex.
• Marriage: to Beatrice of Falkenburg, 16 June 1269, Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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