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	The Barbara Page - Some Famous Barbaras
		Barbara Hutton, born 1912 in New York City, New York, died 1979; granddaughter and heiress of five-and-dime-store magnate Frank W. Woolworth, who lived the life of a fairy-tale princess, was married seven times and died almost a pauper.
		Barbara Strozzi born 8/6/1619; a Venetian composer, one of the better-known female composers of the Baroque period.
		Barbara Villiers, duchess of Cleveland, born 1641, died 1709, a King's mistress.
	www.geocities.com /soakbear/barbara5.htm (1369 words)

	The Jersey Cup
		Sir Edward Villiers and his wife Barbara had four sons, three of whom succeeded to the Grandison title, the fourth; another Sir Edward was father of the first Earl of Jersey.
		By Barbara Villiers, a girl born Barbara Benedicta Fitzroy1672, She became a nun in 1691 and became Prioress of the Hotel Dieu at Pontoise in France.
		Barbara not unnaturally was a keen supporter of the Stuarts and when James went into exile in 1688 she followed him to St. Germain, his mothers home outside Paris.
	www.thejerseycup.co.uk /history.html (6297 words)

	Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland [1] (November 1640–9 October 1709) was a royal courtesan and one of the most notorious of King Charles II's mistresses.
		She was born Barbara Villiers, the only child of William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison (making her a cousin of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham), and the heiress Mary Bayning.
		Villiers was considered at the time to be one of the most beautiful Royalist women, but her lack of fortune left her with reduced marriage prospects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Villiers,_1st_Duchess_of_Cleveland (755 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Barbara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Her father is said to have shut her up in a tower and then to have killed her for being a Christian.
		Santa Barbara Islands SANTA BARBARA ISLANDS [Santa Barbara Islands], or Channel Islands, chain of eight rugged islands and many islets, extending c.150 mi (240 km) along the S Calif. coast from Point Conception to San Diego.
		Ward, Barbara Mary, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth WARD, BARBARA MARY, BARONESS JACKSON OF LODSWORTH [Ward, Barbara Mary, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth] 1914-81, British writer.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Barbara&StartAt=1 (627 words)

	Barbara Allen #2 + #3
		Barbara orders her mother to make her bed, her father to dig her grave; if Jimmy dies as it might be today, she dies as it might be tomorrow, of love in the one case, in the other of sorrow.
		Barbara Allan's Cruelty, it was called, and unexplained cruelty was her chief characteristic trait.
		Barbara Allan is unquestionably and by all odds the best known, most favourite traditional ballad among English-speaking peoples in the twentieth, and like enough the nineteenth, century.
	mysongbook.de /msb/songs/b/barbal23.html (2003 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cleveland, Barbara Villiers, duchess of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Cleveland, Barbara Villiers, duchess of[vil´urz, vil´yurz] Pronunciation Key, 1641–1709, mistress of King Charles II of England.
		As Lady Castlemaine, Barbara Villiers was the archenemy of the earl of Clarendon, the lord chancellor, and her glee at his downfall (1667) is recorded in Pepys' diary.
		She was made duchess in 1670, but by 1671 had been supplanted in Charles's affections by Louise de KEroualle (the future duchess of Portsmouth).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/ClevelanB.html (239 words)

	Yale Bulletin and Calendar
		King Charles II's mistress Barbara Villiers is depicted as a shepherdess in this portrait by John Michael Wright.
		Villiers, the Duchess of Cleveland, was the mother of six of the kingÕs illegitimate children.
		Villiers, the mother of six of the king's numerous illegitimate children, set the standard of fashionable beauty and was painted many times by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), who is said to have put something of her appearance into all his portraits.
	www.yale.edu /opa/v30.n15/story5.html (1007 words)

	Barbara FitzRoy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara (Benedicta) FitzRoy (1672-1731) was the youngest daughter of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine.
		In March 1691 Barbara gave birth to an illegitimate son, Charles Hamilton; the father was the Earl of Arran whose parents bitterly opposed the relationship.
		Subsequently Barbara became a nun in a French convent, using the name of Bernadette.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Fitzroy (149 words)

	FOURTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He was married to Barbara Villiers Palmer Duchess of CLEVELAND Lady Castlemaine (daughter of William VILLIERS 2nd Viscount Grandison and Mary of BAYNING) in (His mistress).
		Barbara Villiers Palmer Duchess of CLEVELAND Lady Castlemaine was born about 1641 in England -.
		Charles FITZROY Duke of Southampton was born in 1662 in London - natural son of Charles II and Barbara.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d4375.htm (522 words)

	NPG 6725; Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland with her son, Charles Fitzroy, as Madonna and Child
		Barbara Palmer (née Villiers), Duchess of Cleveland (1640-1709), Mistress of Charles II.
		Barbara Villiers was effectively Lely's muse, her looks the inspiration for his type of female beauty.
		Lely and Villiers had a mutually beneficial relationship, in which her prominence at court promoted his art and his art publicised her beauty and status.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw84914 (319 words)

	Bookish Plots
		In 1659, against his family’s wishes, Roger married Barbara Villiers, at which point he secured for himself a humiliating notoriety and fulfilled his father’s prediction that if he married her, he would be one of the most miserable men in the world.
		As Lady Castlemaine and later Duchess of Cleveland, she was the talk of the court and often of the town; the diarist Samuel Pepys mentions her frequently.
		Barbara Rapoport holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of London and a master of library science degree from UCLA, where she spent most of her professional life.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVI3/bookish.html (3551 words)

	Barbara Villiers
		Barbara met King Charles II at the Hague in 1659, and accompanied him to England the next year - the King spent the first night of his return to the country in her company.
		Barbara was, says Pepys: "removed as to her bed, from her own home to a chamber in Whitehall next to the King's own, which I am sorry to hear."
		His marriage to Barbara Villiers was annulled and he returned to Scotland with the said Mary, and remained there until his death in 1712.
	techno.demon.co.uk /Fitzroy-Vane-Pulteney/ind00002.htm (416 words)

	Charles II
		Barbara grooms the beautiful Frances Stewart for the role, but Frances is in love with another and flees the court.
		Barbara is sufficiently confident not to feel threatened by the arrival of the future Queen, Catherine of Portugal, whose pious disposition at first is no match for the more worldly and cunning mistress.
		Barbara is sufficiently confident of her charms not to feel threatened by the arrival of the devout and mousy Catherine from Portugal, the future Queen who, at first proves to be no match for the wily Barbara.
	www.aboutrufus.com /charles_ii.htm (11736 words)

	The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 , by Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Whilst at St. Neot’s, the house in which Villiers had taken refuge was surrounded with soldiers. He had a stout heart, and a dexterous hand; he took his resolution; rushed out upon his foes, killed the officer in command, galloped off and joined the Prince in the Downs.
		His elder sister, Lady Mary Villiers, had married the Duke of Richmond, one of the loyal adherents of Charles I. The duke was, therefore, in durance at Windsor, whilst the duchess was to be placed under strict surveillance at Whitehall.
		Traylman, doubtless, kept George Villiers the younger in full possession of all that was to happen to that deserted tenement in which the old man mourned for the departed, and thought of the absent.
	www.sakoman.net /pg/html/18020.htm (2451 words)

	Ephelia Hermaneutics
		This section closes with the most pleasureful formulation in my Villiers research: the reconstructed meaning (or, at the very least, the more acceptable meaning) of the single couplet upon which "Ephelia"'s deauthentication has been grounded since the formation of the English literary canon by anthologists in the late eighteenth century.
		But another George, George Villiers, entering his fifth decade in the late 1670s, was, indeed, a pitiful spectacle of a deteriorating and disgraced aristocrat, said to be worn to a thread from whoring.
		Consider, e.g., the rather broadly recorded role of Mary Villiers in Charles II's intrigue to seduce Frances ('La Belle') Stuart, the court Duchess of Richmond (thus, Frances is "Marina", the younger version of Mary Villiers, the dowager Duchess of Richmond).
	marauder.millersville.edu /~resound/ephelia/e21.html (1376 words)

	Details of Portrait of Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland by Henri Gascar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Portrait of Barbara Villiers Duchess of Cleveland 1641 - 1709
		Barbara Villiers was a somewhat surprising adidition to this coterie.
		Where in our painting she is contemplating a vase of flowers, in the engraving she is joined by the small figure of her young daughter Lady Barbara Fitzroy, officially a royal bastard, but never acknowledged by the King and often held to be the daughter of John Churchill later Duke of Marlborough.
	www.historicalportraits.com /Search/ItemDetails.asp?ItemID=246 (353 words)

	YCBA - Great British Paintings from American Collections
		Special sections of the exhibition will be devoted to Charles II's most important and influential mistresses: Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, and Louise de Kéroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth.
		Both were made duchesses in their own right, installed in lavish apartments in the Royal palaces, and had their children ennobled.
		Barbara Villiers, the mother of six of the King's numerous illegitimate children, set the standard of fashionable beauty and was painted many times by Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), who is said to have put something of her appearance into all his portraits.
	www.yale.edu /ycba/exhibitions/past/painted_ladies/painted_ladies.htm (848 words)

	thePeerage.com - Lady Charlotte Fitzroy and others
		She was the daughter of Charles II Stuart, King of Great Britain and Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.
		He was the son of Charles II Stuart, King of Great Britain and Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.
		She was the daughter of Sir John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10504.htm (1320 words)

	Anthony Adolph - Writer, Broadcaster, Genealogist
		Harry Jermyn, his lover Barbara Villiers and the tangled web of sex, lies and writing parchment at the court of Charles II.
		His seduction of her was later described in all its erotic detail by Barbara’s lesbian lover Delarivierre Manley.
		The affair, which ran parallel to her relationship with the King, almost certainly produced a child, the Duke of Grafton, whose paternity is usually attributed to Charles II.
	www.anthonyadolph.co.uk /harry.htm (392 words)

	Lauren Royal - Real People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sadly, Queen Catharine never did present him with legitimate offspring, but at long last a descendent of his is poised to sit on the throne, since Princess Diana and her sons are descended from Charles II and Barbara, through their son Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Grafton, born in 1663.
		Barbara Villiers Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine (and later, after the story takes place, the Duchess of Cleveland) was King Charles II's mistress off and on for at least ten years.
		Christopher Wren was born in Wiltshire in 1632, the son of the Dean of Windsor.
	www.laurenroyal.com /3.0/bookshelf/people (2118 words)

	Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
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		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland contains research on
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Barbara_Villiers,_Duchess_of_Cleveland (61 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Barbara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cleveland, Barbara Villiers, duchess of CLEVELAND, BARBARA VILLIERS, DUCHESS OF [Cleveland, Barbara Villiers, duchess of], 1641-1709, mistress of King Charles II of England.
		From 1946 to 1950 she served as a governor of the
		Abjection and degeneration in Thomas Hardy's "Barbara of the House of Grebe.".
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Barbara&StartAt=1 (627 words)

	Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as St. Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1665-70 Giclee Print by Sir Peter Lely at ...
		Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as St. Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1665-70 Giclee Print by Sir Peter Lely at AllPosters.com
		Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as St. Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1665-70 by Sir Peter Lely
		Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland as St. Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1665-70
	www.allposters.com /-sp/Barbara-Villiers-Duchess-of-Cleveland-as-St-Catherine-of-Alexandria-c-1665-70_i1349665_.htm?aid=398737 (136 words)

	Barbara Villiers at Ruby Lane : Vintage lingerie for the art of seduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barbara Villiers at Ruby Lane : Vintage lingerie for the art of seduction
		For the past year I have graduated from collecting vintage lingerie to selling select pieces.Vintage underpinnings are of far superior quality to the items offered today, Lejaby,Dior,Gossard,St Michael's,Twilfit,Lady Marlene and Maidenform to name a few outstanding examples produced by companies still alive today.
		I chose the name Barbara Villiers (Countess of Castlemaine) as this notorious mistress of King Charles II was a distant relative of mine.
	www.rubylane.com /shops/barbaravilliers (370 words)

	17thwomen
		Among all of King Charles II of England's loves (see also Moll Davis, Barbara Villiers, Lucy Walter), she is the only one believed to have consistently refused his advances.
		At the time of Charles's infatuation with her, Barbara Palmer, who was pregnant with the king's child, made a great effort to befriend her potential rival.
		Mary Villiers-- later Stuart, duchess of Richmond and Lennox (1622-1685) (the "Ephelia" poet and the Butterfly").
	www.ucalgary.ca /~mamaes/17r.html (1824 words)

	DVD Review:
		Charles is unable to father a legitimate child by his queen (Shirley Henderson), is cuckolded by his chief mistress Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine (Helen McCrory), and fails to seduce Lady Frances Stewart (Alice Patten).
		On the one hand there is his ambitious mistress, Villiers, who wants to put their illegitimate son on the throne.
		A highlight is the actress who plays Barbara Villiers, she is shockingly vile and hatefully self consummed.
	www.killermovies.com /dvd/350.html (1514 words)

	Royal Family of Europe - pafg38 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He married Barbara VILLIERS Duchess of Cleveland in Not Md.
		Barbara VILLIERS Duchess of Cleveland [Parents] was born about 1640 in St. Margaret Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.
		Barbara FITZROY was born on 16 Jul 1672.
	www.ishipress.com /royalfam/pafg38.htm (2890 words)

	The Salacious Historian's Lair - Period Galleries 1660-1715
		The son of an impoverished Royalist, he had little to help him make his way in the world, but, although he became arguably the greatest General of his age.
		Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, playing cards with Lady Fitzharding, formerly Barbara Villiers, mistress to Charles II (and of the Duke of Marlborough!).
		Percy Kirke the Younger Colonel of the Regiment from 1710-1741, he had served as a junior officer in the regiment under his father.
	www.kipar.org /period-galleries/galleries_1700p.html (306 words)

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