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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.
John Grey was created by king Henry the fifth earl of Tankerville, and succeeded to the title of lord Powis in right of Jane, his wife, daughter of Edward Charlton lord Powis, which titles became extinct by the attainder of Richard third earl of Tankerville 1459.
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 30TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Earl Roger de CLARE 3rd Earl of Hertford died in 1173 in Wales - 5th Earl of Clare.
He was born in England - 3rd Earl of Hertford.
Earl Richard de CLARE 4th Earl of Hertford.
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 William Marshal
For his service to them, the Plantagenets gave him as his bride (in August 1189, when he was 43 and she 17) the second-richest heiress in England, Isabel de Clare, who had inherited large estates in England, Wales, and Ireland.
The title of "Marshal" went to the husband of the oldest daughter, Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, and later passed to the Mowbray dukes of Norfolk and then to the Howard dukes of Norfolk, becoming "Earl Marshal" along the way.
The title of "Earl of Pembroke" passed to the husband of Joan Marshal's daughter, Joan de Munchensy, the first of the de Valence line of earls of Pembroke.
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 Corvus '94 - Craigmillar Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The castle suffered at the hands of the Earl of Hertford during the English invasion of 1544.
The Earl of Hertford burnt the castle in 1544, after valuables placed here by the citizens of Edinburgh had been stolen by the English.
When it was besieged by the Earl of Hertford in 1544 (on behalf of Henry VIII), it was surrendered on the condition that is wasn't damaged, but it was burned nonetheless.
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 Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford (August 4, 1222 – July 15, 1262) son of Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford and Isabel Marshall, daughter of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and Isabel de Clare.
In 1232 Richard was secretly married to Margaret (Megotta) de Burgh, daughter of Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent.
The Earl and his companion, pretending to be the two of Roos's knights, obtained entry to Edinburgh Castle, and gradually introduced their attendants, so that they had a force sufficient for their defense.
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 Arabella Stuart
Daughter of Charles Stuart, Earl of Lennox, younger brother of Lord Darnley and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Cavendish and "Bess of Hardwick", is interesting historically as having been (by strict pedigree) next in succession to James VI of Scotland to the thrones of England and Scotland, after Queen Elizabeth I.
In 1590 a plot was formed by the moderate section of the Roman Catholics of marrying her to Ranuccio, eldest son of the Duke of Patma, who was descended from John of Gaunt, and of raising her with Spanish support to the throne.
He married in 1618 Frances, daughter of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, became Earl of Hertford by the death of his grandfather in 1621, and marquess in 1640.
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 Rea Genealogy - pafg144 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Roger de Clare, Earl of Hertford [Parents] was born after 1115.
Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford was born about 1153 and died 1217.
Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford [Parents] was born about 1153 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Hertford,
Hertford, William Seymour, 1st marquess and 2d earl of, 1588-1660, English nobleman; great grandson of Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset, and grandson of Lady Catherine Grey, through whom he had a claim to the throne.
He served on various military and diplomatic missions for Henry VIII and, after the marriage of his sister Jane to the king, was created Viscount Beauchamp (1536) and earl of Hertford (1537).
She was the daughter of Charles Stuart, earl of Lennox, younger brother of Lord Darnley, and her descent from Henry VIII's sister Margaret Tudor placed her next after James in the line of succession to Elizabeth I of England.
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 William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke Summary
The poetic canon of William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, is extremely uncertain.
William Herbert was born at Wilton in Wilts and was the eldest son of Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke, by his third wife, Mary Herbert.
Sir William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, KG, PC (April 8 1580 – April 10 1630) was the son of Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and his second wife Mary Sidney.
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 26th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Richard Gloucester de Clare, Seventh Earl of Gloucester, Eighth Earl of Clare, and Sixth Earl of Hertford was born 4 Aug 1222 in Mellent, Gloucestershire County, England.
In 1259, however, he quarreled with Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester; the dispute, begun in England, was renewed in France, and he was again in the confidence of the king.
From 1262 until her death she held one-third of the Clare inheritance in dower, although her son Earl Gilbert the Red did successfully challenge the original composition of her dower portion, which was readjusted in 1267.
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 28TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sir Gilbert I CLARE Earl of Hertford and Gloucester was born about 1180 in England (5th Earl Hertford, 6th Earl of Gloucester).
She was christened in England - dtr of William, Earl of Pembroke.
Sir Richard de CLARE 6th Earl of Hertford was born on 4 Aug 1222 in Ireland?
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 Curiosities of Literature: Dutchess of Richmond
He came to Amesbury in Wiltshire, where the Earl and his lady then resided; he retired to an inn in the town, shut himself in a chamber, and wrote a paper of verses with his own blood.
When she was Countess of Hertford, she was surrounded by a levee of admirers.
When the Earl her husband appeared, he would frequently check her pride, by interrupting her with, “Frank, how long is it since thou wert married to Prannel?”—This confounded her ladyship, and seemed to sully the glorious ambition of her two beheaded ancestors.
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 My Family
Gilbert DE CLARE (Earl of Gloucester) was born in 1180.
Richard DE CLARE (Earl of Hertford) served as as a Magna Carta Surety in 1215.
Richard DE CLARE (Earl of Gloucester) was born on 4 Aug 1222.
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 Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Pembroke
Gilbert was a younger son of Gilbert fitz Richard de Clare, earl of Tonbridge and Clare and lord of Ceredigion, the Marcher lordship of Cardigan.
ilbert earl of Pembroke died circa 1148, and at the age of eighteen, Strongbow inherited all of his father's lands, including Orbec and Bienfaite in Normandy, the lordship of Striguil and the earldom of Pembroke.
The title of earl and the earldom of Pembroke did not come back into Richard's family until after the marriage of his sole heir, Isabel de Clare, to William Marshal in 1189.
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 thePeerage.com - John Roger Beavis and others
She married Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford, son of Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford, circa 1180.
She and Richard de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford were divorced in 1200.
He was the son of Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford.
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 Somerset, Edward Seymour, duke of — FactMonster.com
He managed to free himself from the restrictions of the council and wielded almost royal authority in effecting major Protestant reforms in the church and in relaxing such measures as the heresy and treason laws.
Joining Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, and others, he deprived (1549) Somerset of the protectorate and imprisoned him in the Tower of London.
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of - Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of, c.1500–1550, lord chancellor of England.
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 29. England under Edward The Sixth Page 1
The most powerful of the first council was the EARL OF HERTFORD, the young King's uncle, who lost no time in bringing his nephew with great state up to Enfield, and thence to the Tower.
Some of the court wondering what these might be, the Earl of Hertford and the other noblemen interested, said that they were promises to advance and enrich THEM.
So, the Earl of Hertford made himself DUKE OF SOMERSET, and made his brother EDWARD SEYMOUR a baron; and there were various similar promotions, all very agreeable to the parties concerned, and very dutiful, no doubt, to the late King's memory.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Gilbert 'the Red' De Clare, Earl of Gloucester (1243-1295)
Gilbert was nicknamed the 'Red Earl' after the colour of his hair.
He was the eldest son of Richard de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford and Margaret de Lacy, the Countess of Lincoln.
Earl Gilbert died in December 1295, at the age of fifty-two, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey (Gloucestershire); although his widow may have buried his heart in the church at their favoured Berkshire manor of Long Wittenham, where the two often stayed when attended the King at Oxford and Woodstock.
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 Hertford — FactMonster.com
Hertford, William Seymour, 1st marquess and 2d earl of - Hertford, William Seymour, 1st marquess and 2d earl of, 1588–1660, English nobleman; great...
Hertford - Hertford (Anglo-Saxon, heort-ford, the hart's ford).
Somerset, William Seymour, 2d duke of - Somerset, William Seymour, 2d duke of: see Hertford, William Seymour, 1st marquess and 2d earl of.
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 Courtesy Titles
The heir of the Marquess and Earl of Salisbury is thus Viscount Cranbourne, and the heir of the Marquess and Earl of Hertford is thus Earl of Yarmouth (whose father happens to have two earldoms at his disposal).
And her husband, the earl, did not become Duke of Marlborough by courtesy; he remained a mere earl (much like the husband of a queen is not a king by courtesy).
Since she was the daughter of an earl and her husband was heir to an earl, she did not have the option of going by "Lady Sarah Villiers." In any event, the option ends upon her husband's accession to his peerage.
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 reagenealogy - pafg162 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Roger de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick [Parents] was born about 1101 in Warwick, Warwickshire, England.
Waleran de Newburgh, 4th Earl of Warwick died on 24 Dec 1203.
Richard de Clare, Second Earl of Gloucester, Lord of Glamorgan was born on 4 Aug 1222.
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 Edward SEYMOUR (2° E. Hertford)
Sir Edward Seymour, 3rd son of Edward, Duke of Somerset and Earl of Hertford, being 1st son by his 2nd wife, Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Stanhope, was born (the same day as King Edward VI) 12 Oct 1537, and, being (under the spec.
The attainder passed on his father was relieved by Act of Parliament in the reign of Mary I (1551); and, two months after the accession of Elizabeth I, Seymour was created Baron Beauchamp and Earl of Hertford (Jan 1559).
In the High Commission Court appointed to "judge" of the "infamous" proceeding and the "pretended marriage" the Archbishop of Canterbury pronounced, 12 May 1561, that there had been no marriage, and the Earl was fined 15,000 pounds by the Star Chamber "for seducing a virgin of the blood royal" and for breaking prison, i.e.
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 Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
Among the thirty-three works dedicated to the Earl, six deal with religion and philosophy, two with music, and three with medicine; but the focus of his patronage was literary, for thirteen of the books presented to him were original or translated works of literature.
A similar pattern obtains for Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, with sixteen per-cent, the Earl of Warwick with fourteen per-cent, and the Earl of Hertford with ten per-cent.
He assigned to the Earl not only the poems wrongly attributed to him by Grosart, but also the songs from John Lyly's plays, plus eleven works which he arbitrarily selected from Englands Helicon, one of which is by Thomas Churchyard.
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 I2749: Gilbert De Clare Earl Of Hertford (1182 - 25 OCT 1230)
I2749: Gilbert De Clare Earl Of Hertford (1182 - 25 OCT 1230)
7th Earl of Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester died in the fighting for the King`s French possessions.
Descendants of Gilbert De Clare Earl Of Hertford and Isabel Marshall
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 Marquess of Hertford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford (1122-1173)
Ralph de Monthermer, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (d.
William Seymour, 3rd Duke of Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Hertford (1651-1671)
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 Executors of Henry VIII
The King gave his assent to Hertford's appointment as Protector "of his realms and dominions and Governor of his person" and the decision was declared to the House of Lords, which gave its unanimous consent.
Thus Hertford became Protector on 1 Feb 1547 (created Duke of Somerset on 16 Feb 1547).
He was made the Duke of Northumberland on 11 Oct 1549 and influenced the king's policies until the latter's death on 6 Jul 1553.
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 thePeerage.com - John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere and others
     Isabel Bigod is the daughter of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk and Matilda Marshal.
     Aveline de Clare was the daughter of Roger de Clare, 2nd Earl of Hertford.
She married Sir John de Burgh, son of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and Beatrice de Warenne, circa 1227.
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 I2750: Richard De Clare Earl of Hertford (1162 - 30 DEC 1218)
I2750: Richard De Clare Earl of Hertford (1162 - 30 DEC 1218)
Spouses of Richard De Clare Earl of Hertford
Descendants of Richard De Clare Earl of Hertford and Amice Fitz Robert
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