page_title: Richard of Cornwall
section_title: Later life, death and successors
hierarchical_section_title: Richard of Cornwall / Biography / Later life, death and successors
caption_attribution_description: Sanchia of Provence
context_page_description: Richard, second son of John, King of England, was the nominal Count of Poitou, Earl of Cornwall and King of Germany. He was one of the wealthiest men in Europe and joined the Barons' Crusade, where he achieved success as a negotiator for the release of prisoners and assisted with the building of the citadel in Ascalon.
context_section_description: He founded Burnham Abbey in Buckinghamshire in 1263, and the Grashaus, Aachen in 1266.
  He joined King Henry in fighting against Simon de Montfort's rebels in the Second Barons' War (1264–67). After the shattering royalist defeat at the Battle of Lewes, Richard took refuge in a windmill, was discovered, and was imprisoned until September 1265.
  Richard bought the feudal barony of Trematon in 1270.
  In December 1271, he had a stroke. His right side was paralysed 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.
  After his death, a power struggle ensued in Germany, which only ended in 1273 with the emergence of a new Roman King, Rudolph I of Habsburg, the first scion of a long-lasting noble family to rule the empire. In Cornwall, Richard was succeeded by Edmund, son of his second wife Sanchia.
caption: Seal of Sanchia, Queen of the Romans, Richard's wife
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