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  Earl of Berkshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Earl of Berkshire was created in the Peerage of England for the first time in 1621 for Francis Norris, Lord Norris of Rycote.
Following his death the next year, the title was recreated in 1626 for Thomas Howard, 1st Viscount Andover, a younger son of the 1st Earl of Suffolk.
Henry Bowes Howard, 4th Earl of Berkshire (1687-1757) (became 11th Earl of Suffolk in 1745)
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 Earl of Suffolk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Earl of Suffolk has been created several times in the Peerage of England, most recently in 1603 for Thomas Howard, 1st Baron Howard de Walden.
The current Earl of Suffolk has the following subsidiary titles: Earl of Berkshire (created 1626), Viscount Andover (1622) and Baron Howard of Charlton (1622), all in the Peerage of England.
Michael John James George Robert Howard, 21st Earl of Suffolk, 14th Earl of Berkshire (b.
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 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Earls (2)
Geoffrey de Mandeville was created by king Stephen earl of Essex, William, third earl of Essex, succeeded to the title of earl of Albemarle in right of Hawise, his wife, daughter of William third earl of Albemarle, The titles became extinct at his death 24 November 1190.
Henry Bourchier, earl of Eu in the province of Normandy, was created by king Henry the sixth 1446 viscount Bourchier, and by king Edward the fourth earl of Essex, which titles became extinct in this family upon the death of Henry, second earl of Essex, 13 March 1539.
James Butler, earl of Ormond of the kingdom of Ireland, was created by king Henry the sixth earl of Wiltshire, which title became extinct by his attainder 4 November 1460.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/Extinct2Earls.html   (2206 words)

  
 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
Afterwards Earl of Dorset and Duke of Exeter.
Afterwards Earl of Warwick and Duke of Northumberland.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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 Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire (8 October 1587 – 16 July 1669) was the second son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk and Catherine Knyvet.
In 1621 he was created Baron Howard of Charlton, Wiltshire and in 1625 he was created Earl of Berkshire.
This biography of a peer or noble of the United Kingdom, or its constituent countries, is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Howard,_1st_Earl_of_Berkshire   (131 words)

  
 Earl_Burlingame
Earl had been suffering from cancer of the throat and had a severe amount of pain in his last weeks.
Earl left Reisenbach Two and was discharged from the Air Force in 1965.
Earl is survived by his significant other Annemarie Rocha and his children Brigitta, Ronald Earl, Tracy, Page, Kelly, Karen and Brett a sister Dotty and step brother Billy Schueler.
members.tripod.com /reisenbach2000/earl.htm   (303 words)

  
 Drew Spencer Family Tree - aqwg200
Theophilus Howard Earl of Suffolk [Parents] died 1640.
Elizabeth Dunbar married Theophilus Howard Earl of Suffolk.
Elizabeth Cecil married Thomas of Berkshire Howard Earl.
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 The Berkshire Humane Society
It is about Earl, a 62-year-old truck driver from Arizona and his small, yet devoted copilot, Bo, a 12-year-old miniature pincher.
Earl parked his big rig in our driveway, settling in for the long haul that was ahead of his friend, Bo.
Earl and Bo had extended their bond to all of us.
extras.berkshireeagle.com /Nebe/humane/bond.htm   (736 words)

  
 THE VERDICTS OF EACH OF THE JURORS IN THE TRIAL OF
Married (1) 1604, Susan, daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and Anne Cecil and sister to Elizabeth, Countess of Derby; (2) Anne, widow of Richard Sackville, Earl of Dorset, heir of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, and Margaret, daughter of Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford.
Married (1) 1605/6 to Fiances Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, and Katherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Henry Knyvett; marriage dissolved in 1613; (2) 1630/31 to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Paulet of Eddington, Wiltshire.
In 1615, married Dorothy, daughter of Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, and Dorothy, daughter of Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex; male heir bom 1619.
web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/tom.paterson/touchet/touchettrial.htm   (944 words)

  
 Berkshire School What's Up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
One grant is given to a faculty or staff person who has given a great many years of service to the school, and the other grant to a faculty or staff member who has helped the school or the students in a special way.
When he first came to Berkshire in 1986, his shop was in the basement of Memorial, underneath what is now the Ritt Kellogg Mountain Program room.
Finally, lest we forget, she is the mother of a Berkshire School alumna and a Berkshire School alumnus.
www.berkshireschool.org /goingon/archives/022403-top.htm   (605 words)

  
 Berkshire History: Biographies: William Norreys (1548-1579)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He was with Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex, in Ulster in 1574 and was, on one occasion, rescued from death by his brother, John.
He was, it appears, temporarily appointed in 1576, Marshal of Berwick in succession to Sir William Drury, but soon returned to Ireland.
He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Morrison, by whom he left a son Francis, later the Earl of Berkshire.
www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/wnorreys_rycote.html   (130 words)

  
 Earl of Oxford . com - VERE EARLS OF OXFORD
The new earl was an ardent supporter of the Empress Matilda, who frequently came to Hedingham Castle as a guest of de Vere.
This Earl of Oxford has, by some, been described as a judge of the royal court, on the strength of this single record of fines levied before him in 1220.
The third earl died October 25, 1221, and was buried in the Benedictine priory of Hatfield, Broadoak, near Bishop's Stortford in Essex, priory at Hatfield Broadoak (Regis), which had been founded by his grandfather as a cell of St. Melaine at Rennes.
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 The Life of King Alfred: Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The same year also, earl Ealhere, with the men of Kent, and Iluda with the men of Surrey, fought bravely and resolutely against an army of the pagans, in the island, which is called in the Saxon tongue, Tenet, (9) but Ruim in the British language.
At length one of the pagan earls was slain, and the greater part of the army destroyed; upon which the rest saved themselves by flight, and the Christians gained the victory.
Ethelwerd the youngest, by the divine counsels and the admirable prudence of the king, was consigned to the schools of learning, where, with the children of almost all the nobility of the country, and many also who were not noble, he prospered under the diligent care of his teachers.
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 General John, The Earl of Suffolk 1783-1814   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk and 8th Earl of Berkshire, was born in Tralee, Ireland, on 7th March 1739.
He had been a page to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and entered the army as Ensign in the 1st Foot Guards on the 13th of June 1756; he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1773.
In 1782 he was appointed Colonel of the 97th Regiment, afterwards disbanded; he succeeded to the dignity of Earl of Suffolk in 1783.
www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /colonels/065.html   (182 words)

  
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On the opposite side are two stone sepulchres: (1) Edward, Earl of Lancaster, brother of Edward I.; (2) Ademar of Valence, Earl of Pembroke, son of Ademar of Valence.
Percy, Earl of Northumberland, descended from the Dukes of Brabant.
Somerset, Earl of Worcester, descended from a bastard of the Somerset family, which itself is of the royal family of the Plantagenets.
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 Mervyn TOUCHET (2º E. Castleheaven)
The earliest surviving evidence against the Earl complains that, by granting favors to his minions, Castlehaven threatened to erase "the difference between a servant and a son".
By at least some accounts, it was the Earl who, when his virginal daughter-in-law proved impenetrable, applied oil "to open her body" for Skipwith.
James Touchet was restored to the dignities 1634, and became the 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, in Ireland, and 10th lord Audley, in England; he had a command against the rebels in Ireland, under the Duke of Ormond, and has left an account of his warfare, entitled "Lord Castlehaven's Memoirs".
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/MervynTouchet(2ECastleheaven).htm   (999 words)

  
 §5. "Annus Mirabilis". I. Dryden. Vol. 8. The Age of Dryden. The Cambridge History of English and American ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The whole of the first group of Dryden’s poems may be said to be brought to a close by Annus Mirabilis, or The Year of Wonders (1666); but, before the production of this work, he had already brought out several plays.
It was, not improbably, in this way that he was brought into contact with Sir Robert Howard, a younger son of the earl of Berkshire, who had long been connected with the Stewart court and whose wife was a daughter of the great lord Burghley.
The marriage took place with her father’s consent, and lady Elizabeth seems, sooner or later, to have brought her husband some addition to his estate.
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 Amanda Lynn Ellison Pitts - Earl Edmund Plantagenet
Edward Evan Pitts was born on 14 Dec 1878 in Earling, Shelby, IA.
Earl Edmund Plantagenet was born on 5 Aug 1301 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Children were: Earl John Plantagenet, Princess Joan the Fair Maid of Kent Plantagenet.
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 John Dryden
Some elegiac verses which Dryden wrote there on the death of a schoolfellow, Henry, Lord Hastings, son of the earl of Huntingdon, in 1649, were published in Lacrymae Musarum, among other elegies by "divers persons of nobility and worth" in commemoration of the same event.
He married Lady Elizabeth Howard, Sir Robert's sister and daughter of the 1st earl of Berkshire, on the 1st of December 1663.
It was the chief cause of the veneration with which Dryden was regarded by Alexander Pope, who, himself educated in the Roman Catholic faith, was taken as a boy of twelve to see the veteran poet in his chair of honor and authority at Wills's coffee-house.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
62 (inv 1377) Henry (Plantagenet),styled "of Bolingbroke, " Earl of Derby.
180 (inv 1459) Jasper (Tudor), Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford.
770 (inv 1878) Benjamin (D'Israeli), Earl of Beaconsfield.
www.heraldica.org /topics/orders/garterlist.htm   (13921 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Now My Soul: Music: Ronnie Earl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But on his fourth album in four years, Earl proves that he's robust enough to muscle through a set of swinging jazz (Jimmy Smith's "Blues for J"), sizzling gospel ("Walking on the Sea" with the Silver Leaf Gospel Singers), and explosive blues (everything else) with strapping aplomb.
Earl thanks and blesses lots of friends, I would just like to thank him with all my heart for all the fantastic sensations and the unbelievable feelings I always experience listening to his music.
Now that there's a large Ronnie Earl catalog to refer to, it can be safely said that he is most consistent blues player of his generation.
www.amazon.com /Now-My-Soul-Ronnie-Earl/dp/B000255K1W   (1446 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Captain Malcolm King Acheson and others
He was the son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Bridget Wray, Baroness Norreys.
She married James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon, son of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey and Bridget Wray, Baroness Norreys, on 1 February 1671/72 in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, England.
He was the son of Francis Courtenay, 4th Earl of Devon and Mary Pole.
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 Berkshire History: Family Heraldry: B
The Bertie family were originally from Lincolnshire where they were Lords Willoughby and Earls of Lindsey.
His Lordship married the maternal grandaughter of the Norreys Earl of Berkshire and a younger son was created Earl of Abingdon in 1682.
One branch, identified by their martlets, inherited the manor of Weston (Welford) from the Langham and Jones families in 1774.
www.berkshirehistory.com /gentry/heraldry/b.html   (280 words)

  
 The Man Who Laughs -- Chapter 94   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Earl of Bindon, Bowes Howard, Earl of Berkshire, and Stafford Howard, Carl of Stafford--all together; then John Lovelace, Baron Lovelace, which peerage became extinct in 1736, so that Richardson was enabled to introduce Lovelace in his book, and to create a type under the name.
The young Earl of Annesley addressed old Lord Eure, who had but two years more to live, as he died in 1707.
Hugh Cholmondeley, Earl of Cholmondeley, strong in points of law, was asked from the bishops' benches by Nathaniel Crew, who was doubly a peer, being a temporal peer, as Baron Crew, and a spiritual peer, as Bishop of Durham.
www.litrix.com /mlaughs/mlaug094.htm   (1803 words)

  
 John Dryden: free web books, online
The interval of 18 months had been crowded with events, and though much has been written against his apparent change of opinion, it is fair to remember that the whole cast of his mind led him to be a supporter of de facto authority.
In 1663 he married Lady Elizabeth Howard, daughter of the Earl of Berkshire.
His latter years were passed in comparative poverty, although the Earl of Dorset and other old friends contributed by their liberality to lighten his cares.
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 King of a Prince   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Once upon a time, over 300 years ago, there lived a Prince and his 3 advisors, the Earl of Berkshire, a most inept man, Chancellor Hyde, a chronic sufferer of gout, and Bishop of Salisbury who loved the Church so well he could see no other course.
The Prince's father, the King, had been a very good father when the Prince was young, but a civil war broke out and the King was busy fighting for his crown.
Once, when the Prince was in Bristol gathering troops, the question came where to send the 300 horsemen the Prince had rallied.
www.royalstuarts.org /king_prince.htm   (591 words)

  
 Elfinspell: Annals of Roger de Hoveden-6; online text Riley English translation, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, History, ...
There, on the third day after their arrival, two of their earls, with a great multitude, rode forth to plunder, while the others, in the meantime, were throwing up a rampart between the two rivers Thames and Kennet, on the right hand side of that royal town.
that is to say, “the field of the Angles,” where both sides fought bravely, until, one of the pagan earls being slain, and the greater part of their army destroyed, the rest took to flight, and the Christians gained the victory.
At this place one of the two kings of the pagans, and five of their earls, were slain, and many thousands of them besides who fell at that spot, and in various places, scattered over the whole breadth of the plain of Eschedun.
www.elfinspell.com /Hoveden6.html   (2665 words)

  
 Earl Carpenter - The Unofficial Website - Features
Earl Carpenter Interview - Last Minute.com - 7 July 2005
Beastly Memories of the Past For Earl - This is Bournemouth - 29 August 2002
An Emotional Homecoming For Amanda and Earl - This is Bournemouth - 25 April 2005
www.earlcarpenter.co.uk /features.html   (402 words)

  
 The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne, 1901. Chapter II. Early Letters.
He afterwards married Lady Bridget Lindsay, the Earl of Lindsay's daughter, and the marriage is mentioned in due course, with Dorothy's comments.
Poor Lady Anne Percy, daughter of the Earl of Northumberland, and niece of the faithless Lady Carlisle of whom we read in these letters, was already married at this date to Lord Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield's heir.
Lord Lisle was the son of Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, and brother of the famous Algernon.
www.luminarium.org /sevenlit/osborne/early.htm   (5565 words)

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