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  Earls and dukes of Devonshire - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Earls and dukes of Devonshire - LoveToKnow 1911
He was created earl of Devonshire in 1618 by James I., and was succeeded by William, 2nd earl (1591-1628), and the latter by his son William (1617-1684), a prominent royalist, and one of the original members of the Royal Society, who married a daughter of the 2nd earl of Salisbury.
William Cavendish, 1St duke of Devonshire (1640-1707), English statesman, eldest son of the earl of Devonshire last mentioned, was born on the 25th of January 1640.
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 Mountjoy - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Edward conferred on him rich estates forfeited by the earl of Devon; and in 1465 Blount was made lord high treasurer and created Baron Mountjoy.
Blount's great-grandfather had married Isolda, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas de Mountjoy, and the title was probably chosen to commemorate this alliance.
Charles Blount, earl of Devonshire and 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563-1606), lord-lieutenant of Ireland, grandson of the preceding, was the most notable of the later holders of the title.
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 Charles BLOUNT (1° E. Devonshire)
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon and 8th Baron Mountjoy served as Lord Deputy and as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
In 1600 AD Charles Blount was sent to Ireland as the last viceroy of Queen Elizabeth.
Mountjoy became Earl of Devonshire; Lady Rich, daughter of a junior Earl and wife of a junior baron, was given precedence of all barons' wives and almost all earls' daughters.
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 Charles Blount Biography
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon and 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563 - April 3, 1606) served as Lord Deputy and as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras.
The grandson of William Blount, Charles became the most notable of the later holders of the dukedom.
In 1602 the earl of Tyrone made his submission to Mountjoy in Dublin; and after the accession of James I in 1603 Mountjoy continued in office with the more distinguished title of Lord-Lieutenant (1603 - 1606).
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His support for Charles, absolute monarchy, and his persecuting of opposing views led to his beheading in the midst of the English Civil War.
In 1605, somewhat against his will, he obliged his patron, Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, by performing his marriage service to a divorcée.
Thanks to patrons who included George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, and the king himself, he reached the highest position the Church of England had to offer, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1633.
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 BLOUNT, Lord Mountjoy
The children of this marriage were born whilst Penelope was married to Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick, and so were illegitimate.
Moreover, St John's nephew Sir John St John, 1st Baronet, of Lydiard Tregoze, was the ancestor of the Viscounts Bolingbroke and the Viscounts St John.
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 Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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blunt), 1st Earl of Devonshire and 8th Baron Mountjoy (1563 – April 3, 1606) served as Lord Deputy, then as Lord Lieutenant, of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I and King James I.
In 1600 Mountjoy went to Ireland as lord deputy, in succession to Essex, and brought the Nine Years War to an end with ruthless scorched-earth tactics in the stronghold of the rebel Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone in Ulster.
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 CHARLES BLOUNT - Online Information article about CHARLES BLOUNT
Blount (1565—16o1), who was afterwards executed for complicity in Essex's See also:
In 1602 the earl of Tyrone made his submission to Mountjoy in See also:
ordnance and created earl of Devonshire, extensive estates being also granted to him.
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 Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
He joined Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh in their expedition to the Azores in 1597, along with his distant cousin, Sir Christopher Blount (1565-1601).
(Christopher had married Essex's mother, Lettice Knollys, the Countess of Essex, and he was afterwards executed for complicity in Essex's treason.) In 1600 Mountjoy went to Ireland as lord deputy in succession to Essex, where he succeeded in suppressing the rebellion of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, whom Essex had failed to subdue.
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 1563 - Definition, explanation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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BE1883 suggests that they had a second daughter called Mary who married Sir Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, but this seems to be a confusion as Earl Henry married Mary Say, apparently sister of Elizabeth.
Charles Blount, 8th Lord Mountjoy, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl of Devonshire (b c1562, d 03.04.1606)
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