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 SIR P. WARWICK - LoveToKnow Article on SIR P. WARWICK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Her second husband, John du Plessis, assumed the title of earl of Warwick in 1245, and in 12 50 received a grant of his wife's lands for life.
His son Guy de Beauchamp, loth earl of Warwick (1278-1315), received grants of land in Scotland for his services at Falkirk, and in 1301 was one of the signatories of the letter to the pope denying the papal right to interfere in Scottish affairs.
She was succeeded in 1493 in the earldom by her grandson Edward Plantagenet, i8th earl of Warwick (1475-1499), son of the duke of Clarence, and therefore the Yorkist heir to the crown.
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
1812 (638) Francis (Rawdon-Hastings), 2nd Earl of Moira.
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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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
395 (inv 1603) Ludovick (Stuart), 2nd Duke of Lennox.
532 (inv 1718) John, 2nd Duke of Montagu.
638 (inv 1812) Francis (Rawdon-Hastings), 2nd Earl of Moira.
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 John DUDLEY (1° D. Northumberland)
Dudley served as Guildford's lieutenant in the campaign of 1523 and was knighted by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, for his valour at the crossing of the Somme.
Dudley was named an executor of the King's will and according to Secretary Paget he was to have been elevated as Earl of Coventry; in the event it was the earldom of Warwick which he received from Edward VI.
He himself was joined in the Lords by his eldest surviving son John, under the courtesy title of the Earl of Warwick, and he was instrumental in the summoning of two other peers’ sons, Sir Francis Russell and George Talbot, in their father's lesser dignities.
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 WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745) - LoveToKnow Article on WARTON, THOMAS (C. 1688-1745)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
He became constable of Warwick Castle in 1068, and, though there is no proof that he actually came over with the Conqueror, his elder brother Robert de Beaumont, comte de Meulan, fought at Hastings.
He was created earl of Warwick early in the reign of William II.
WARWICK, SIR PHILIP (1609-1683), English writer and politician, was the son of Thomas Warwick, or Warrick, a musician, and was born in Westminster on the 24th of December 1609.
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 Earl of Warwick -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The title Earl of Warwick is one of the oldest (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (The domain controlled by an earl or count or countess) earldoms.
At Dudley's death the dukedom was forfeit for his treason, but the earldom passed to his son John, and then his other son Ambrose.
At the death of the eighth Rich Earl, the title became extinct, and was granted to Francis Greville, 1st (Click link for more info and facts about Earl Brooke) Earl Brooke, thus uniting again the title and castle.
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 Warwick Castle
Simon de Montford, Earl of Leicester and the leader of the rebellious nobles, sent John Gifford, Governor of Kenilworth Castle, to Warwick.
The most famous victim was King Edward IV in 1496 who was captured by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, in conspiracy with Edward’s brother, the Duke of Clarence, during the War of the Roses.
The Dudley family was once again in favor of the crown when Elizabeth I, succeeded her half sister Mary.
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 Edward CLINTON FIENNES (1° E. Lincoln)
She was the niece of John Dudley, and gave him three sons and three daughters.
Under John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick he saw action against the French at the Battle of Spearhead in 1545 and was sent as one of the peace commissioners to France the following year.
A joint commander with Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick of a large army, he quelled the rising of the Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland in 1570 and Elizabeth created him Earl of Lincoln in 1572, employing him on diplomatic missions to France.
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 Norton Family of Sharpenhoe
John Noruile, alias Norton, and married with the daughter of Montchensie, and to Joan daughter of Sr.
John Norton had one other son, named John Norton, dwelling at Sharpenhoe, had issue John, Joane, Isabel and Alce, as appeareth by the several testatments of Joane Norland and Agnes Wenger, her daughter.
John had a wyvern support on each side of his shield and a wyvern in the space above the shield10, probably as a recognition of his services in Wales.
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 Summi et Aeterni ORDER
Warwick releases Henry VI from the Tower and restores him to the throne on October 30.
While often ranked behind his contemporaries Guillaume Dufay and John Dunstable, at least by contemporary scholars, his influence was arguably greater than either, since his works were cited, borrowed and used as source material more often than those by any other composer of the time.
A famous example of a composition by Lassus which is a representative of this style is his series of 12 motets entitled Prophetiae Sibyllarum, which is in a wildly chromatic style reminiscent of Gesualdo; some of his chord progressions in this piece were not to be heard again until the 20th century.
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 Britannia Biographies: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
Robert Dudley, the favourite and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, was the fifth son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland and Jane Guildford.
That Elizabeth loved Dudley and continued to love him, in spite of frequent quarrels, is a theory quite tenable; but the opposite theory, that she loved no-one at all, and merely employed Lord Robert as a stalking-horse against other suitors, is also tenable.
Lady Amy Dudley died suddenly in 1560 at Cumnor Place, in North Berkshire, in circumstances that were at least suspicious, and part of the suspicion involved not only Lord Robert but the Queen as well.
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 webGED: The Bement Family Data Page
In 1311 the barons, led by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, forced the king to appoint from among them a committee of 21 nobles and prelates, called the lords ordainers.
As a result of the power struggle between his paternal uncle Richard, duke of Gloucester, and his maternal uncle Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, both Edward and his brother, Richard, duke of York, were confined in the Tower of London shortly after their father's death in April 1483.
Her affections, however, were bestowed on a succession of favorites, notably Robert Dudley, 1st earl of Leicester, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex.
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 British knighthood and knighthoods. Become a lord or lady   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Admiral of the Fleet and Steward of England.
160 (inv 1442) Henry, Duke of Viseu, 4th son of John I, King of Portugal, and nephew of Henry IV.
177 (inv 1459) James (Butler), 2nd Earl of Wiltshire and 5th Earl of Ormonde.
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 Search Results for Northumberland - Encyclopædia Britannica
English Roman Catholic imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1605 to 1621 on suspicion of complicity in the Gunpowder Plot (q.v.).
He was the son of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and the brother of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the “Kingmaker.”
Northumberland, John Dudley, duke of, earl of Warwick, Viscount Lisle, Baron Lisle
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 The Benner, Cleaveland and Related Families - Source Page 1
[S52] Letters from John Happer Furr (1216 W. Princess Anne, Norfolk, VA 23507) to R.G. Cleaveland, various dates; R. Cleaveland library; Furr folder (Arlington, Virginia).
Earl Grant Cleaveland (Rice Lake, Wisconsin) to R. Cleaveland, various dates; R. Cleaveland library; Cleaveland, Earl folder (Arlington, Virginia).
D., D.D. Rev. William John Heinke, A History of the Tohickon Union Church (n.p.: Bedminster Township, Bucks County, PA, 1925).
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Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
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 Government Titles
1485-1487 John Alcock, Bishop of Winchester and Ely
1522-1547 Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey and 2nd Duke of Norfolk
1527-1534 John Taylor, Archdeacon of Derby and Buckingham
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 1528   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (died 1590)
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (died 1554)
February 29 - Patrick Hamilton, Scottish churchman and Reformer (born 1504)
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 MSN Encarta - Leicester
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of (1532?-1588), English soldier and statesman, and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. The son of John Dudley, duke of...
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 December 22 Birthdays in History
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December 22, 1428 Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury
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