to make peace with Pembroke, even coming to him at Yardley Hastings in the company of the Earls of Hereford, March and Salisbury. Pembroke threatened Ruthin with disinheritance, which the three earls objected to. Pembroke did not, at that time, carry out his threat. Pembroke was still in England in early 1372, when his wife, now aged sixteen, became pregnant. Before he leftunaware of this developmenthe arranged contingency plans in case he failed to return from campaign. To avoid Ruthin inheriting anything in the event of Pembroke's death, Pembroke sought and received the King's permission to make a further enfeoffment following the one of 1369. This specified thatafter his debts had been paidmost of his land would pass to a cousin, William Beauchamp. Beauchamp was not only his friend but in Pembroke's eyes a worthy successor to his title. This may have been an extreme reaction to a personal dislike of Ruthin. In the event Pembroke's plans were unnecessary since his wife gave birth to a male heir after he left the country. Beauchamp was a younger son of Thomas, Earl of Warwick—who had died of plague in 1369—and so was a cousin to Pembroke. Thus began the process which eventually resulted in Ruthin's disinheritance. To protect his estates in the event of his death abroad, he had had them enfeoffed in 1369 and returned to him. Now, in April 1372, Pembroke quitclaimed them back to the feoffees, again entrusting his lands. The trustees were instructed that, if Pembroke died abroad, the Hastings estates were to go to the King and everything else to Beauchamp. If for some reason Beauchamp was not able to inherit, the estates would go to the distantly-related Sir William Clinton. When Pembroke returned to France on campaign again in 1372 he travelled with Beauchamp. On at least one occasion they shared a bed: it was common at the time for apprentices, students and soldiers to sleep together and travellers would often share a bed at an inn. Nevertheless, sharing a bed with an earl was a distinction. Legal dockets indicate the pair continued to discuss Ruthin's disinheritance. Pembroke told Beauchamp he considered Ruthin would celebrate if Pembroke died, but "would not have as much of his inheritance as he thinks he will have". Return to France Pembroke soon returned to France and the war. It is possible the King personally requested him to lead the