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	Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, KG (8 May 1670 – 10 May 1726) was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwynne.
		In 1684 he was made Duke of St. Albans.
		He became colonel in the 8th regiment of horse in 1687, and served with the emperor Leopold I, being present at the siege of Belgrade in 1688.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Beauclerk,_1st_Duke_of_St_Albans (444 words)

	Duke of St Albans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The subsidiary titles of the Duke are: Earl of Burford (1676), Baron Heddington (1676) and Baron Vere of Hanworth (1750).
		The eldest son and heir of the Duke of St Albans is known by the courtesy title of Earl of Burford.
		The coat of arms of the Dukes of St Albans (a bar sinister on the arms of King Charles II, denoting illegitimacy).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_of_St_Albans (395 words)

	ST ALBANS - LoveToKnow Article on ST ALBANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		St Albans became the seat of a bishop in 1877; the diocese covering the greater part of Essex and Hertfordshire, with small portions of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
		At St Albans the Lancastrians were defeated on the 21st of May 1455, their leader, the duke of Somerset, being killed, and Henry VI.
		St Albans is served by the Central Vermont railway, which has general offices and shops here, and by an electric line connecting with Lake Champlain at St Albans Bay and with Swanton, 9 m.
	31.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_ALBANS.htm (1588 words)

	Duke of St. Albans
		Duke of St. Albans (1684), Earl of Burford (1676), Baron Heddington (1676), Baron Vere of Hanworth (1750), and Hereditary Grand Falconer of England (1685).
		Sir Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, was the natural (but illegitimate) son of Charles II by Eleanor (Nell) Gwynn, a famous actress of her time.
		Many of them were raised to the Peerage as Dukes, of which four remain today (Buccleuch, Richmond, Grafton, and St. Albans), and all of whom use the Baton Sinster or Bordure Compony to signify their relation to Charles II.
	www.hereditarytitles.com /Page36.html (435 words)

	EARLS AND DUKES OF ST ALBANS - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS AND DUKES OF ST ALBANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The English title of earl of St Albans was first borne by Richard Bourke, or de Burgh, 4th earl of Clanricarde.
		The second creation of an earl of St Albans was in I660, when Henry, Baron Jermyn, was made an earl under this title; but again it became extinct on his death in 1684.
		The 9th duke was succeeded by his son by a second marriage, William Amelius Aubrey de Vere (1840-1898), whose son, Charles Victor Albert Au,brey de Vere, became the I I th holder of the title.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/ST_ALBANS_EARLS_AND_DUKES_OF.htm (587 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Great Houses of Nottinghamshire: Bestwood Lodge
		There is here a portrait of the late duke, a large painting of Redbourne,—his grace’s Lincolnshire seat, in which are the figures of two ladies in a small pony carriage who are holding converse with a substantial ecclesiastic of the old school, just dismounted from a stout cob.
		The eighth duke married the heiress of Mr.
		The duke is a great admirer of trees; firs are his special favourites, and he himself has introduced a fine variety from Corsica which mingle well with their sturdy brethren of Scotch extraction.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /Jacks1881/bestwood.htm (2608 words)

	ipedia.com: Duke Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The term duke is a title of nobility which refers to the sovereign male ruler of a Continental European duchy, to a nobleman of the highest grade of the British peerage, or t...
		In the United Kingdom, the current royal dukes are HRH the Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay; HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip), HRH the Duke of York (Prince Andrew), HRH the Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard), and HRH the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
		For example, when the current Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent are succeeded by their eldest sons, the Earl of Ulster and the Earl of St. Andrews, respectively, those peerages (or rather, the 1928 and 1934 creations of them) will cease to be associated with royalty.
	www.ipedia.com /duke.html (1054 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Charles Beauclerk, Duke of St. Albans (1670-1726)
		In 1684, he was created Duke of St. Albans and, on Easter day of that year, accompanied his father and two other natural sons of the King, the Dukes of Northumberland and Richmond, when Charles II made his offering at the altar at Whitehall, the three boys entering before the King within the rails.
		During the last illness of his mother, it was said that the Duke was about to go to Hungary from whence he would return a good catholic; and that the other natural sons of the late King, known as the fraternity, "would be on the same foot or give way as to their advantageous stations".
		The Duke voted for the condemnation of Dr. Sacheverell and, consequently, on the triumph of the tory ministry, in January 1712, he was dismissed from his office of Captain of the Pensioners.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/cbeauclerk_1dofsa.html (862 words)

	Charles Beauclerk, 1st duke of Saint Albans -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The town of St. Albans, situated on the old Roman Watling Street and lying 20 miles (32 km) northwest of London, dominated the northern approaches to the capital.
		Albans town (township), surrounding the city, is on St. Albans Bay of Lake Champlain.
		U.S. astronaut Charles Moss Duke, Jr., was born in Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 3, 1935.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064788 (906 words)

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		Sir Godfrey Kneller: Portrait of Charles, 1st Duke of St Albans, three-quarter length, in armour, wearing the riband of the Garter - 49in by 39in.
		A miniature of William, Eighth Duke of St Albans, Inscribed verso, half length to dexter, wearing a fl jacket, white waistcoat and cravat, a medal on his left lapel, rectangular 46mm, in gilt metal frame.
		A miniature of Louisa, Sixth Duchess of St Albans (condition faded), head and shoulders to dexter, gaze directed at spectator, wearing a white dress with lace frill trim, and a gold necklace, cloud and sky background, oval 66cm, in gilt metal frame.
	www.outandoutnutter.co.uk /cewap/duke.html (1342 words)

	Navy News - Ships of the Royal Navy - HMS St Albans
		Today St Albans is part way through her first deployment, putting the check on smugglers and terrorists in the Middle East and Indian Ocean.
		The ship takes her name from the bastard son of Charles II and Nell Gwyn, Charles Beauclerk, the first Duke of St Albans, who was born barely two decades before the first of six HMS St Albans served the crown.
		St Albans arrived in the Middle East in late November and found her patrol patch stretched from the Gulf to the Horn of Africa.
	www.navynews.co.uk /ships/stalbans.asp (774 words)

	NewsHour Extra: Presidential Candidates' High Schools
		Nevertheless, St. Albans was known as a "pipeline" to Princeton and Harvard.
		Al Gore began attending St. Albans in 1956, at the age of 8 in "Form C," or the fourth grade.
		St. Albans maintained a strict coat-and-tie dress code and Gore learned how to tie a Windsor knot by the age of 9.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/extra/features/july-dec00/privateschools.html (2205 words)

	Duke of St Albans, Dartmouth Park, London - pub details # beerintheevening.com
		Have been back in recently now that it is The Duke again and sure enough there were two of my old friends in there.
		Don't ask for wine because in its second week after opening there was only one and three quarter bottles of white and only one glass of red left in the building.
		The Duke of St,Albans re-opens as a pub on the 1.11.03 it has been closed for one week.
	www.beerintheevening.com /pubs/s/42/4206 (600 words)

	GENUKI: Hibaldstow, LIN
		In 1913, the principal land holders were Maximilian H. DALISON and the Duke of St. Albans.
		One theory which links St Hygbald with Hibaldstow is that in the year 669 St Chad received the Diocese of Mercia and began to preach in Lindsey, setting up a mission station at or near Cadney.
		St Hygbald's links with the village were further re- enforced when during the rebuilding of the parish church in 1866 a stone coffin was unearthed.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/LIN/Hibaldstow (984 words)

	CEWAP - Conditionally Exempt Works Appreciation Party
		The Duke of St. Albans has been responding slowly to requests to see his collection and it looks like he might be about to pay up the tax rather than let us see his stuff!
		The Duke of St. Albans' own collection includes lots of items relating to Charles II and Nell Gwynne and even includes a couple of photographs of Lady Diana so we thought that it would be a nice little lot to see.
		His Grace, The Duke of St Albans, is away at the present time and he has asked me to respond to your letter of 13 September 1999.
	www.outandoutnutter.co.uk /cewap/news.htm (1469 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Brown's History of Nottinghamshire: Arnold and Bestwood Park
		Adjoining the village of Arnold is Bestwood Park, the beautiful residence of the Duke of St. Albans.
		In 1885 Bestwood Lodge was completed, under the direction of the present Duke, and is a fine specimen of domestic architecture in the style of the fifteenth century.
		The Duke is Lord-Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, and takes a lively interest in philanthropic and deserving institutions, both in the county town and the district surrounding it.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /Brown1896/arnold.htm (447 words)

	Second Parliament of George I (1722-27): List of knights, commissioners, citizens & burgesses in Parliament \| British ...
		Lord William Powlet, Uncle to the Duke of Bolton; one of the Tellers of the Exchequer.
		Walter Chetwynd, Ld Viscount Chetwynd of Ireland, Chief Ranger of of St.
		William Kerr, Esq; Brother to the Duke of Roxburgh, Colonel of Dragoons, and Groom of the Bed-chamber to the Prince, chose last Parliament for the Burghs of Dysert, andc.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=37760 (4320 words)

	Royalty Restored or London under Charles II - Chapter XV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Nor would the duke vouchsafe an explanation to his young wife regarding the cause of this severe treatment, but continued the even course of such conduct without intermission or abatement.
		St. Evremond tells us her person "contained nothing that was not too lovely." In the "Character of the Duchess of Mazarine," which he drew soon after her arrival in London, he has presented a portrait of her worth examining not only for sake of the object it paints, but for the quaint workmanship it contains.
		Her rooms at St. James's, and her house in Chelsea, became the rendezvous of the most polite and brilliant society in England.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/english/RoyaltyRestoredorLondonunderCharlesII/chap16.html (3700 words)

	Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by lastname - part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Bavaria, Otto the Illustrious of, Duke of Bavaria
		Beauclerk, Charles, Duke of St. Albans 1st, b.
		Beauclerk, Charles, Duke of St. Albans 2nd, b.
	www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /public/genealogy/royal/gedx04.html (436 words)

	St Albans
		The first Battle of St Albans was the first battle of the war and was fought on May 22nd 1455.
		Richard Duke of York and his ally, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwickdefeated the Lancastrians under Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, who was killed.
		They were intercepted near St Albans by forces commanded by the Earl of Warwick.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andyjen01/st_albans.htm (178 words)

	NPR : A Family Take in 'Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King'
		Beauclerk has written the story of their 17-year affair, and how it came to be that their son became the duke of St. Albans, when Gwyn started out as a child of the streets and the daughter of a madame.
		Under the Catholic Church, Brigid became St Brigit and Imbolc was transformed into the Feast of Candlemas, or the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at which candles are lit at midnight to attend the first stirrings of spring.
		Appropriately enough, the royal seal designed for the accession of King Charles in Jersey showed St George on the obverse, for the King in exile was to endure another ten years as the wandering knight, though the dragons that he would vanquish were those reared in the bowels of his own being.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5063416&ft=1&f=1 (1517 words)

	FOURTEENTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He was born on 29 May 1630 in St.
		Charles FITZROY Duke of Southampton was born in 1662 in London - natural son of Charles II and Barbara.
		George FITZROY was born in 1665 in London - natural son of Charles II and Barbara.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d4375.htm (522 words)

	Guardian \| For Queen and country, lording it over us to the last
		He turned out to be the Earl of Burford, who is son and heir to the Duke of St Albans, and who will never now take his father's seat.
		Both are the descendants of Nell Gwyn, and it seemed somehow historically appropriate that an individual who was in the House only for that reason should be loudly asserting his divine right to sit there and so help to do to the whole country what Charles II had done to his famous ancestor.
		(The Duke of St Albans is also the Hereditary Grand Falconer of England.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3921436-103563,00.html (550 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1203
		He is the son of Murrey de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St. Albans and Rosemary Frances Scoones.
		She is the daughter of Murrey de Vere Beauclerk, 14th Duke of St. Albans and Rosemary Frances Scoones.
		She was the daughter of Charles Frederick Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk, 13th Duke of St. Albans and Suzanne Marie Adele Fesq.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1203.htm (771 words)

	Berkshire History: Burford House (Windsor)
		Charles, the eldest of the Duke's eight sons, succeeded to the property in 1726, and subsequently became Constable of Windsor Castle, Warden of the Forest and High Steward of Windsor.
		In 1749, the house was described as "a stately and handsome seat with beautiful gardens that extend to the park wall…..his Grace is at present making farther improvements by opening a view into the High Street of the town".
		The Duke died two years later and his son, apparently a great spendthrift, sold Burford House to King George III a quarter of a century later.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /castles/burford_house.html (558 words)

	Nell Gwyn - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		She never forgot her old friends, and, as far as is known, remained faithful to her royal lover from the beginning of their intimacy to his death, and, after his death, to his memory.
		Of her two sons by the king, the elder was created Baron Hedington and earl of Burford and subsequently duke of St Albans; the younger, James, Lord Beauclerk, died in 1680, while still a boy.
		She died in November 1687, and was buried on the 17th, according to her own request, in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, her funeral sermon being preached by the vicar, Thomas Tenison, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, who said much to her praise.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Nell_Gwyn (1163 words)

	thePeerage.com - Person Page 1163
		He was the son of Aubrey Beauclerk, 5th Duke of St. Albans and Lady Catherine Ponsonby.
		She was the daughter of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Moleyns.
		She was the daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and Lady Louisa Jane Russell.
	www.thepeerage.com /p1163.htm (1265 words)

	pub comments # beerintheevening.com
		The Platinum Bar will close for a fortnight from 26/10/2003 to be converted into what is hoped will be a friendly local under its original name, the Duke of St Albans.
		Don't know anything about it, but an acquaintance of mine says that his mother was born above it when it was called The Duke Of St Albans.
		Pub used to be called the Duke of St Albans; was run by Chef and Brewer.
	www.beerintheevening.com /pubs/comments.shtml/4206 (601 words)

	Lemonrock gig guide - The Duke of Marlborough, St Albans
		the duke is a comfortable, friendly, traditional pub, in an excellent position adjacent to the beginning of verulamium park on the main road into st albans.
		the duke of marlborough has an excellent range of wines, and always has at least three real ales to choose from, typically speckled hen, adnams and green king ipa.
		the duke of marlborough has a long history as a music pub, and on 24th september 2005 we launched "marlborough lights", an exciting programme of music every saturday night, in the main bar from 9pm.
	www.lemonrock.com /dukeofmarlborough (713 words)

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