<P> The Mount was fortified during the Second World War during the invasion crisis of 1940--41 . Three pillboxes can be seen to this day . </P> <P> Sixty - five years after the Second World War, it was suggested based on interviews with contemporaries that the former Nazi Foreign Minister and onetime Ambassador to London, Joachim von Ribbentrop, had intended to live at the Mount after the planned German conquest . Archived documents revealed that during his time in Britain in the 1930s, when he had proposed an alliance with Nazi Germany, General von Ribbentrop frequently visited Cornwall . </P> <P> In 1954, Francis Cecil St Aubyn, 3rd Baron St Levan gave most of St Michael's Mount to the National Trust, together with a large endowment fund . The St Aubyn family retained a 999 - year lease to inhabit the castle and a licence to manage the public viewing of its historic rooms . This is managed in conjunction with the National Trust . </P> <Ul> <Li> 1250 Frà Richard le Scrope, </Li> <Li> 1262 Frà Ralph de Vieilles, </Li> <Li> 1266 Frà Ralph de Carteret, </Li> <Li> 1275 Frà Richard de Perrers, collated by Bishop Bronescombe </Li> <Li> 1283 Frà Geoffrey de Gernon, </Li> <Li> 1316 Frà Peter de Carewe, Prior during Bishop Grandisson's visitation </Li> <Li> 1342 Frà Nicholas d'Isabelle, </Li> <Li> 1349 Frà John Hardy, until indictment at Launceston 1354 </Li> <Li> 1362 Frà John de Voland, </Li> <Li> 1385 Frà Richard de Harepath, his official prioral brass seal survives; </Li> <Li> 1412 Dom . William Lambert, Prior </Li> <Li> 1537 Mgr . Richard Arscott, Archpriest </Li> <Li> 1539 Dissolution of Syon Monastery; St Michael's Mount reverted to the Crown </Li> <Li> 1611 Royal grant of the St Michael's Mount to Robert, Earl of Salisbury </Li> <Li> 1640 Fee conveyed to William, Earl of Salisbury by Sir Francis Bassett; later sold to the St Aubyn family . </Li> </Ul>

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