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	Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos: George Grenville (Nugent Buckingham)
		Buckingham was a man of considerable industry and some financial ability; but his overbearing manner, his excessive pride, and his extreme proneness to take offence and fitted him for political life.
		Mary Elizabeth Nugent, elder daughter of Robert, Viscount Clare, afterwards Earl Nugent.
		Nugent Buckingham refuses transmit an address by both houses of the Irish parliament to the Prince of Wales, requesting him to exercise the king’s authority during the king's madness
	www.dukesofbuckingham.org /people/family/grenville/nugent_buckingham.htm (0 words)

	Borough of Buckingham (including Bourton, Lenborough and Gawcott)
		Buckingham is an ancient borough, and is described as such at the time of the Norman Survey, in which it is said to have had 26 burgesses, all under the protection of foreign lords.
		The manor of Boreton or Bourton, a hamlet of Buckingham, was held, with the manor of Buckingham, by the Giffards, and passed with it to the family of Brocas, of whom it is supposed to have been purchased by Ferdinando Poulton, an eminent lawyer, well known as editor of a book of statutes.
		The Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers, and Methodists, have chapels or meeting-houses at Buckingham.
	met.open.ac.uk /genuki/big/eng/BKM/Buckingham/Index.html (3296 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Buckingham, (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of (1592–1628) English statesman and court favourite of James I and Charles I.
		Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st Duke of (1592–1628) English statesman, favourite of JAMES I and Charles I. In 1615 James appointed Villiers, a young man of no distinction but attractive to the king, to the office of Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
		Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of (1628–87) English courtier and political figure, son of the 1st Duke of Buckingham.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Buckingham,&StartAt=1 (973 words)

	GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: Extinct Peerage - Earls (1)
		Waltheof, descended from the earls of Northumberland previous to the conquest, was created by king William the conqueror earl of that county, and soon after earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, which titles he forfeited to the crown 29 April 1075.
		Walter Giffard, earl of Longueville in the province of Normandy, a distant relation to king William the conqueror, was created by that monarch earl of Buckingham, which title became extinct in that family upon the death of Walter, second earl of Buckingham 1164.
		William, earl of Warren in the province of Normandy, a distant relation of king William the conqueror, was created by king William the second earl of Surrey, which title became extinct in this family upon the death of William, third earl of Surrey, 1148.
	www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons/Extinct1Earls.html (2420 words)

	Search Results for "Buckingham"
		Buckingham Palace, (buk´ing-m) (KEY), residence of British sovereigns from 1837, Westminster metropolitan borough, London, England, adjacent to St. James's Park....
		Buckingham, George Villiers, 2d duke of, 1628-87, English courtier; son of the 1st duke.
		Buckingham, George Nugent Temple Grenville, 1st marquess of, see Grenville, George Nugent Temple, 1st marquess of Buckingham....
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Buckingham (284 words)

	George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Summary
		In 1623 Buckingham accompanied the Charles I of England Prince of Wales to Spain for marriage negotiations regarding the Infanta Maria.
		Buckingham's popularity suffered further when he was blamed for the failure of the von Mansfeld expedition to recover the Palatinate (1625).
		Buckingham led an expedition to repeat the actions of Sir Francis Drake; seize the main Spanish port at Cádiz and burn the fleet in its harbour.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Villiers,_1st_Duke_of_Buckingham (1641 words)

	Buckingham, George Villiers, 1st duke of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Villiers was made a gentleman of the bedchamber (1615) and, after Somerset’s disgrace, rose rapidly, becoming earl of Buckingham (1617), marquess (1618), and lord high admiral (1619).
		In 1621, Parliament began to investigate abuses of these monopolies, but Buckingham prevented action against himself (though not against his friend Sir Francis Bacon) by joining in the condemnation of his relatives.
		Buckingham favored the proposed marriage of Prince Charles (later Charles I) with the Infanta Maria of Spain and in 1623 went with Charles to Madrid.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bu/BuckinghGV1d.html (397 words)

	AylesburyVale.net - Buckingham History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buckingham played an important military role in 914 and was heavily fortified by Bucca, and is outlined in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle which was created or altered during this period.
		After the death of Edward VI Buckingham was one of the first towns to proclaim Mary Tudor as Queen in 1554.
		Buckingham was vulnerable to attacks from both London which was held by Parliament, and Oxford where the King's Court was established.
	www.aylesburyvale.net /buckingham/history.asp (717 words)

	Clare
		The first earl of Clare, the founder of the family, was Richard Fitzgilbert, a knight who accompanied William the Conqueror on the Norman invasion of England in 1066.
		This earl, who, from his munificence to the church, and his numerous acts of piety was called the Good, died in 1173, and was succeeded by his son, Richard.
		Becoming jealous, however, of the power of Leicester, the earl soon after abandoned the baronial cause, and having assisted in procuring the liberty of the king and the prince, commanded the second brigade of the royal army at the battle of Evesham, which restored the kingly power to its former lustre.
	todmar.net /ancestry/clare_main.htm (1859 words)

	Fake Earls Watford Roots (from This Is Local London)
		The man, who calls himself the Earl of Buckingham, was found with headed notepaper with a crest of the Buckingham coat of arms, although the title had not been used for 200 years.
		Buckingham claims to be aged 42, and put his age on the marriage certificate as 21 and claimed his father was a diplomat.
		Although according to the marriage certificate Buckingham's wife was supposed to be staying at the same address, Mrs Shah said he lived there alone and that she never saw him with a girl.
	www.thisislocallondon.co.uk /news/topstories/display.var.653072.0.fake_earls_watford_roots.php (659 words)

	Mar John Erskine 6th (Or 11th) Earl Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		He succeeded his father as earl in 1689 and in the following years was generally a member of the court party.
		Nothing...marriage to the Earl of Suffolks...Villiers, now Earl of Buckingham...old Sir John Savile was...at an inn or a suit of...enemy Sir John Savile, now...consequence of his own...himself, or critical...much of the Earl of Clare...
		John afterwards third Earl Waldegrave...the Park, or go to Vauxhall...was a folly of seven young...daughters of John Gunning...Coventry, sixth Earl of Coventry...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/mar_john_erskine_6th_or_11th_earl_of.jsp (794 words)

	Queen James and His Courtiers
		Buckingham was generally regarded as the most beautiful man in Europe, with his dark chestnut curly hair, a pointed beard of golden brown, clear skin, fine chiselled features, dark blue eyes, and the graceful carriage of the ideal courtier.
		Buckingham and James were the convenient scapegoats for public miseries which they may have slightly aggravated but certainly did not cause, for they were neither angels nor devils, but men like any other.
		Buckingham died in the prime of life, aged thirty-six; his heart and brain were placed in urns, and buried at the Cathedral of Portsmouth, where there is also a monument to him in the chancel.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /jamesi.htm (2741 words)

	My BOFH is a bogus Baron \| The Register
		Buckingham was allowed to travel back to the UK but was arrested by police as soon as he docked in Dover.
		Buckingham owns a house in Northampton and is not short of a bob or two but little else is known about him, least of all his true identity.
		The title of Earl of Buckingham has been extinct since 1687 after the death of the second Duke who "had a reputation for debauchery and killed his mistress’s husband in a duel", The Times reports.
	www.theregister.com /2005/11/08/bogus_lord_bofh (588 words)

	James and Buckingham
		Buckingham, a man of unusual beauty and elegance, gave devoted and constant attention to James, and accepted his public petting genially.
		Buckingham rewarded both himself and his family lavishly from royal estates and public funds; he married himself and his relatives into the most important families in England.
		Buckingham's power was wholly dependent on royal favor, so as James grew old and ill, Buckingham cultivated his relationship with Charles.
	history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-23.htm (1763 words)

	The Clares, 1217-1314
		In addition, King William arranged for Richard's marriage to Rohese, sister of Walter Giffard, later Earl of Buckingham, and her dowry, consisting of lands in Huntingdon and Hertford, became absorbed in the family inheritance.
		Gilbert de CLARE assumed the title of Earl of Gloucester and Hertford and was charged £350 relief for the honors of Clare, Gloucester, St. Hilary and his half of the old Giffard barony.
		Earl Gilbert's other daughter, Isabel born 1226, married 1240 the Scots baron Robert Bruce, lord of Annandale (d 1295), and by him was the grandmother of the hero of Bannockburn.
	worldroots.com /~brigitte/clare.htm (2459 words)

	Lord of the lies: but who is bogus earl?-News-UK-TimesOnline
		Buckingham was allowed to board a ferry to Dover but the Kent Police frontier crime unit arrested him when he arrived in Britain.
		Buckingham, who has worked as an IT security consultant for a Swiss insurance firm since 2001, was freed on police bail.
		Buckingham’s stubborn refusal to tell the truth has caused hurt and intrigue, especially among his children Lindsey, 19, and Edward, 17.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /tol/news/uk/article587330.ece (1211 words)

	Bogus noble is missing American, kin say - Boston.com
		The man being held in a jail in Kent, England, goes by the title of the Earl of Buckingham but he is really an Orlando native named Charles Stopford, his father, Charles, and sister Rebecca Davis say in a documentary to be broadcast Sunday on Sky One television.
		He is alleged to have taken the name of Christopher Buckingham, who died in 1963 at the age of 8 months, and used it to obtain documents to live as a British subject.
		For the past decade he has been calling himself the Earl of Buckingham, a title that has been extinct for more than 300 years, The Times said.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/05/06/relatives_uk_mystery_man_is_from_fla (709 words)

	Buckingham - Aylesbury Vale District Council (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The meaning of the name Buckingham is 'the place of Bucca's people hemmed in by water'; in the year 914 the area was heavily fortified by Bucca against the armies of the Danes.
		The current Manor House in Buckingham was previously the Prebendal House and was extremely grand for its time, but it was spoiled during the Civil War and demolished by 1654.
		The independent University of Buckingham is a famous educational institution that was originally supported by Margaret Thatcher prior to its opening in 1976.
	www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk /avdc/content/index.jsp?contentid=632629510 (624 words)

	He lived as a bogus peer for 22 years. Now he's in jail. But who is he? \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Posing as Christopher Edward, Earl of Buckingham, he married, had a son and a daughter, obtained a British passport, national insurance number and driving licence, worked as an IT consultant and boasted of owning four hereditary titles.
		Police later established that the real Christopher Edward Buckingham was born on December 24 1962 and died aged eight months on August 28 1963 while on a caravan holiday in Bognor Regis with his mother, Audrey Wing.
		Buckingham intends to return to Zurich when he is released, where he claims documents in a safety deposit box will prove his innocence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /crime/article/0,,1637455,00.html (0 words)

	Froissart: A Challenge is Fought Before the Earl of Buckingham
		The earl of Buckingham and his whole army were quartered at Toury in Beauce, and in the environs, where they found plenty of provisions.
		The earl came to Yterville, and dismounted at the house of the Templars.
		The earl of Buckingham as well as the other lords were much enraged by this, and said it was tilting dishonorably; but he excused himself, by declaring it was solely owing to the restiveness of his horse.
	www.nipissingu.ca /department/history/muhlberger/froissart/gauvain.htm (0 words)

	Royal Genealogies Part 39
		His natural son, Charles, Earl of Worcester, became the ancestor of the Dukes of Beaufort.
		NOTES: Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde
		NOTES: Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford (d.1621) was married to two Frances Howards.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /~saw/royal/r39.html (273 words)

	Battley Ipswich Suffolk genealogy
		William was born at Stonham Earl and was an Inn Keeper.
		age 49 in 1881, and born in Wetheringsett, Suffolk, England) at the Angel Inn, Stonham Earl, Suffolk, occupation Shoemaker and Inn Keeper.
		Eliza was christened 5.1.1845 in Aston Clinton, Buckingham.
	www.hayward-logan.com /Battley_Young/battley_ipswich_suffolk_genealogy.htm (1631 words)

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		To add to visitors' enjoyment, there is also a photographic exhibition on the East Walkway, spanning over 100 years of the bridge's history.
		King George III bought Buckingham House in 1761 for his wife Queen Charlotte to use as a comfortable family home close to St James's Palace.
		Buckingham House became known as the Queen's House, and 14 of George III's 15 children were born there.
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	Lanark County Genealogical Society
		576 PaTo SCT Earl of Buckingham 06/21 07/31/1821 Ramsay 9 11 East 6 1 1 1 3 McFarlane, Matthew Sr.
		Mitchell, James 623 PaTo SCT Earl of Buckingham 06/21 08/03/1821 Lanark 7 8 East 5 1 1 3 Mitchell, John Jr.
		Nisbett, James 499 PaTo SCT Earl of Buckingham 06/21 07/24/1821 N. Sherbrooke 1 10 West 10 1 1 2 3 3 Osborn, Richard 352 IRL 05/10/1821 Ramsay 8 14 West 1 1 Left the settlement.
	globalgenealogy.com /LCGS/articles/A-PAIS.HTM (645 words)

	Buckingham (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Buckingham quickly gained control of the king's patronage, granting lucrative monopolies to his relatives.
		On a diplomatic mission to Paris in 1625 to arrange Prince Charles's marriage-by-proxy to Henrietta Maria, sister of the king of France, Villiers met Rubens, the master painter north of the Alps, who, from 1623, was himself a diplomat.
		Beneath him to the left are Neptune, the god of the sea, and a sea nymph holding a string of pearls symbolizing the riches of the ocean that England claimed.
	hfriedberg.web.wesleyan.edu /wescourses/2005f/engl205/01/comedies/buckingham.htm (204 words)

	Gulf Times â€“ Qatarâ€™s top-selling English daily newspaper - Britain/Ireland
		He married under the false name, passed it to his children, laid claim to the Buckingham crest and promised his teenage son that the peerage would one day be his.
		Buckingham was allowed to board a ferry to Dover but British police arrested him on arrival.
		Buckingham, who has worked as an IT security consultant for a Swiss insurance firm since 2001, was later freed on police bail, after telling â€œquite a plausible storyâ€‌, said The Times.
	www.gulf-times.com /site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=59611&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20 (769 words)

	George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
		He accompanied James' son Charles (not yet King) to Madrid in Spain to arrange a marriage between Charles and Maria, the daughter of the Spanish King...but his display of arrogance contributed to the failure of the negotiations.
		The marriage that Buckingham had arranged between Charles and Henrietta Maria of France failed to bring peace with France, and raised the possibility of Roman Catholics coming to the Royal line...which made him very unpopular.
		Buckingham led 8000 men to the French port of La Rochelle to help the Huguenots (French protestants) who were under attack.
	www.thevickerage.worldonline.co.uk /ecivil/george_villiers.htm (275 words)

	Maxstoke Castle
		He fell a sacrifice to Cardinal Wolsey, and was beheaded in 1521; upon which event the Emporer Charles V exclaimed, "A butcher's dog has worried to death the finest buck in England." Then sunk forever all the splendour and princely honours of the renowned family of Stafford.
		The badges of the burning nave of the Stafford knot are also sculptured on the gatehouse, which was built by the Earl of Buckingham previously to his being created a Duke in 1446.
		The great gates put up by this nobleman are still in their original state, and are covered with plates of iron; the groove for the massive portcullis is also to be seen.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /otherhalls2/new_page_2.htm (450 words)

	17th Century England - Meet the King and the main personalities. - free Suite101 course
		James expressed his respect and love for Buckingham in many councils and he became part of the family, with James calling him his child.
		Buckingham held a host of government offices and grew rich indeed on them.
		He married a daughter of the Earl of Rutland and had several children, which were taken in by the Royal Family after his death and brought up with the Royal Children.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/17395/695/4 (427 words)

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