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  Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katherine Manners, 19th Baroness de Ros (died ~1649) was the daughter and heir of the 18th Baron de Ros.
Katherine married George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and was the mother of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (who inherited her title as 20th Baron de Ros) and of Mary Villiers, Duchess of Richmond.
This biography of a baron in the peerage of England is a stub.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafn202 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
BUCKINGHAM, DUKE OF (1592-1628), an English nobleman, was the real ruler of England during the later years of King James I's reign, which ended in 1625, and from 1625 to 1628 under King Charles I. His given and family name was George Villiers.
Buckingham was born in the county of Leicestershire, England.
Countess of Buckingham in 1 JUL 1618, Marchioness in 1619.
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 NPG 711; The Duke of Buckingham and his Family (Mary, Duchess of Richmond; George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; ...
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), Courtier; favourite of James I. Sitter associated with 22 portraits.
Katharine, Duchess of Buckingham (died 1649), Wife of 1st Duke of Buckingham.
Mary, Duchess of Richmond (1622-1685), Daughter of 1st Duke of Buckingham and wife of 1st Duke of Richmond.
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 pokinroundcliveden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Buckingham, (real name George Villiers) had a son with the Countess, though how that is known is hard to tell because she was well known for 'putting it about'.
Buckingham was brought up with the children of Charles 1st (Stewart-Stuart) after his father the 1st Duke was assasinated at Portsmouth.
Buckingham legged it back to the Netherlands, returning 7 years later after falling out with Charles and after he thought the dust had settled.
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 The Jersey Cup
George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham was born in 1592.
Buckingham’s foreign policy was dictated by the King’s wish to put his daughter Elizabeth of Bohemia, the winter Queen, and her husband Frederick back on their throne.
Buckingham actually asked his mother if she could repay a loan of £6,000 (quite a large sum of money in those days), which he had made her to buy a house.
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 Fairfax Morocco Barb
Buckingham and the Prince had been to Spain to expedite the marriage of Charles to the Spanish Infanta, which failed to materialize.
After Buckingham's asssassination in 1628, his son George Villiers (1628-1687), who had been born at Wallingford House, Whitehall, and only a year old at the time, was raised and educated along with the children of the king.
In 1635 his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Buckingham, married Randal MacDonnell (1609-1682), 2nd Earl and Marquess of Antrim, and presumably left Helmsley for Ireland where she died in 1649.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But Katherine, who was always sharp to detect any falsity, did not like her and thought her eyes had a sly look and the lines of her mouth a cruel tightness.
Katherine learned here, what she would never forget, that there were two concurrent histories--individual man, his soul-making, and the great movements in which a thousand years are but a day upward towards universal progress.
Katherine said again: 'What is it?--What has happened?' As neither of them answered, as the room seemed hot with a deep penetrating smell, she walked past them, out of the room, then ran down the stairs.
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Further, Buckingham himself is less the subject of the poem than are the patronage of two kings, the barbarity of the murderer, and the grief of the widow.
The second and third of the epitaphs on Mary Villiers along with the short poem on the death of Maria Wentworth are essentially unmixed in their mortuary evocation.
If the three epitaphs on Mary Villiers are taken as a group (as we take Herrick's three short poems "To his Booke," "Another," and "Another"), it is possible to see a movement from confrontation of the fact of death in a blunt, almost crude fashion, to an increasingly literary treatment.
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 Ephelia Hermaneutics
But another George, George Villiers, entering his fifth decade in the late 1670s, was, indeed, a pitiful spectacle of a deteriorating and disgraced aristocrat, said to be worn to a thread from whoring.
(Katherine 'Kate' Manners, the widowed Duchess of Buckingham, in 1628, was not too accessible to her son, owing to her remarriage in 1635/6 to an Irish Catholic chieftain and member of the Queen Mother's inner circle [her 'society'], Randal McDonnell, Earl of Antrim.
Consider, e.g., the rather broadly recorded role of Mary Villiers in Charles II's intrigue to seduce Frances ('La Belle') Stuart, the court Duchess of Richmond (thus, Frances is "Marina", the younger version of Mary Villiers, the dowager Duchess of Richmond).
marauder.millersville.edu /~resound/ephelia/e21.html   (1376 words)

  
 Memoirs of Count de Grammont - Notes and Illustrations 2
And in fine, it is confessed that they were not fully married till about a month or two before she was brought to bed; but that they were contracted long before, and time enough for the child to be legitimate.
It was suspected of this princess to have had a similar engagement with the Duke of Buckingham as the queen with Jermyn, and that was the cause she would not see the duke on his second voyage to Holland, in the year 1652.
Katherine of Braganza was far from appearing with splendour in the charming court where she came to reign; however, in the end she was pretty successful.
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 Carriage Museum of America
She was born on the 24th of May, 1819 and had reached the age (eighteen) required by the law, before she could assume the reins of government, in the month previous to her accession to the throne on the death of William the Reformer, on June 20th, 1837.
The Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Sutherland.
The Duchess of Kent met with an enthusiastic reception, and the Duke of Sussex was greeted with immense cheering.
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 Ancestry of the Duchess of Cornwall
The ancestry of HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
Below is a short summary of the first fourteen generations of the ancestry of the current [2006] Princess of Wales (styled "HRH The Duchess of Cornwall"), using the standard Kekule method of ancestor-numbering.
Ancestry of Camilla Shand, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
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 FreeBooksToRead.com - Letters of Horace Walpole, Horace Walpole by V2 - Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Duchess of Richmond was a lady mayoress in the time of James I.; and Lord Delawarr,(20) Queen Elizabeth's porter, from a picture in the guard-chamber at Kensington; they were admirable masks.
In the middle of all these principalities and powers was the Duchess of Queensbury, in her forlorn trim, a white apron and a white hood, and would make the Duke swallow all her undress.
His estate is 17,000 pounds a year; the Duchess of Manchester must have four of it; all the rest he has given, after four thousand a year to the Duchess-dowager shall fall in, to his other daughter Lady Cardigan.
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 Stall-Plates of the Knights of the Garter
Son of Charles II and Louise, Duchess of Portsmouth.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
Daughter of Philip (the Bold), Duke of Burgundy, K.G. Married William of Bavaria, Duke of Holland and Count of Ostrevant, K.G. 1408 Blanch, Duchess of Bavaria.
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 The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 , by Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whilst at St. Neot’s, the house in which Villiers had taken refuge was surrounded with soldiers.  He had a stout heart, and a dexterous hand; he took his resolution; rushed out upon his foes, killed the officer in command, galloped off and joined the Prince in the Downs.
His elder sister, Lady Mary Villiers, had married the Duke of Richmond, one of the loyal adherents of Charles I. The duke was, therefore, in durance at Windsor, whilst the duchess was to be placed under strict surveillance at Whitehall.
Traylman, doubtless, kept George Villiers the younger in full possession of all that was to happen to that deserted tenement in which the old man mourned for the departed, and thought of the absent.
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 : : Treasurehunting.tv - : Pickering : :
At the subsequent restoration, which was carried out by degrees as the necessary funds were forthcoming, it was found that portions of some of the figures had perished, and it is a most regrettable fact that the restoration included the painting in of certain missing parts whose details could only be supplied by analogy.
She was said to be the daughter of Costus, King of Alexandria, and was married to a son of Constantine Chlorius, the Roman Governor of York.
St Katherine is then stripped to the waist and beaten in the presence of the emperor, who is shown on the extreme right as well as the left of the second panel.
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 Villiers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Villiers, is also a station of the Paris Métro (lines 2 and 3).
Villiers, Switzerland, in the Val-de-Ruz district of the canton of Neuchâtel
Diana Villiers is a fictional character in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Villiers   (118 words)

  
 Women in power 1640-1670
She was made Duchess in 1670, but by 1671 had been supplanted in Charles’s affections by Louise de Kéroualle (the future Duchess of Portsmouth).
Her mother, Marguerite Charlotte de Luxembourg, had been Duchess since 1616 and in 1661 she resigned in favour of her son by the first marriage, Henri León d'Albert de Luxembourg.
She was heiress of the County of Randan and was created Duchess, with a remainder to her daughter, Marie Claire de Bauffremont-Sennecey and her male children with Jean-Baptiste Gaston de Foix de Candale, Comte de Fleix.
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Langbain 'thinks her Memory will be long fresh among all lovers of dramatic poetry, as having been sufficiently eminent, not only for her theatrical performances; but several other pieces both in prose and verse, which gained her an esteem among the wits almost equal to that of the incomparable Orinda, Mrs.
His obstinacy and pride procured him many enemies, amongst whom the duke of Buckingham was the first; who intended to have exposed Sir Robert under the name of Bilboa in the Rehearsal; but the plague which then prevailed occasioned the theatres to be shut up, and the people of fashion to quit the town.
It is dedicated to her royal highness the duchess of York, on whom the author passes the following extravagant compliment.
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 Royal Houses of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Katherine Darnley born 1681/2, married firstly 28 October 1699 James (Annesley), 5th Earl of Anglesey (died without issue, 21 January 1701/2), and had issue married secondly 16 March 1705/6, as his third wife, John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby (died 24 February 1720/1), and died 13 March 1742/3), having had further issue.
Duchess of Inverness (1840) (died 1 August 1873), widow of Sir George Buggin, Knight, and eldest daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, K.P., by his third wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Underwood, and died without issuel.
Edward VII died at Buckingham Palace, 6 May, 1910 (buried at Windsor), and was succeeded by his only surviving son.
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 New England Historic Genealogical Society
Hyde, Anne, Duchess of York (1st wife of James II, King of England), pp.
Portsmouth, Louise Renée de Penancoët de Kéroualle, Duchess of, mistress of Charles II, King of England, pp.
Villiers, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, mistress of Charles II, King of England, pp.
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 thePeerage.com - James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn and others
She was the daughter of Sir William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh and Susan Villiers.
He married Susan Villiers, daughter of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont, Countess of Buckingham, circa 1607.
     Susan Villiers is the daughter of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont, Countess of Buckingham.
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 page10
A flight of steps take the passage beneath the station where, until very recently, coins of all periods and realms could be purchased from the market which occupied the site here.
Close to the Villiers Street end is the newly established Champagne Charlie's pub.
On a cold morning in 1837, when the young Princess received the news at Kensington Palace that she was Queen of England, she packed her bags and set off not to 'dusty' St James's, but to Buckingham Palace.
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 Page 4F - Irish Reformation & Scots Irish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
For these reasons, Charles I insisted, in 1627, that Lord Dun Luce (as he was known before his father’s death in 1636) be brought to London where he remained for the next eleven years, and where he married Katherine de Villiers in 1635.
Katherine was not only a rich Catholic heiress in her own right, but as favorite of both the king and queen, one of the most important women at court.
The assasination of the infamous Duke of Buckingham, the former George Villiers, had left his duchess “in the possession of fabulous wealth, and still retaining the nobler dowry of youthful beauty.
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 Thumbprints of "Ephelia" - Appendix A
Possibly St Albans, who is observed by Mary Villiers, standing at her post as Lady of the Queen’s Bedchamber, while he attempts a clandestine meeting (tryst?) with the Queen.
Poet Katherine Philips (1631-1664), exulted by Cowley as "the Matchless Orinda," and "the English Sappho"; Philips was the standard for her century of the comely, virtuous woman writer.
Mary (Villiers, née Fairfax), Duchess of Buckingham (1612-1671), heiress of the third Lord Fairfax of Cromwell's administration and wife of George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham.
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 Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
Hutchinson and the Duchess of Newcastle, also wrote lives of their husbands, which continue to live as classics in our literature.
To her daughter, Katherine Fanshawe, she left 600 pounds of which sum 500 pounds were given her by her grandfather, Sir John Harrison, at his decease, a warrant for a Baronet, probably her husband's, and all her jewels.
To her daughter Katherine she bequeathed the Work written by herself, by her said daughter Katherine, or by her sisters.
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 thePeerage.com - Bernard Stuart and others
He was the son of Esmé Stuart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and Katherine Clifton, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold.
She was the daughter of Esmé Stuart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and Katherine Clifton, Baroness Clifton of Leighton Bromswold.
She was the daughter of Sir George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Catherine Manners, Baroness de Ros.
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 Memoirs of Count de Grammont - Notes and Illustrations 3
Lord Orford says, there is a whole length of this duchess at Welbeck, in a theatric dress, which, tradition says, she generally wore.
George Villiers, the second Duke of Buckingham, was born 30th January, 1627.
The Duke of Buckingham is, it seems, set at liberty without any further charge against him or other clearing of him, but let to go out; which is one of the strangest instances of the fool's play, with which all publick things are done in this age, that is to be apprehended.
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 [No title]
The Duke of Buckingham's condition is shortly this: that he hath about L19,600 a-year, of which he pays away about L7,000 a-year in interest, about L2000 in fee-farm rents to the King, about L6000 wages and pensions, and the rest to live upon, and pay taxes for the whole.
She was interred in January, 1457, in the Chapel of Our Lady, at the east end of this church; but when that building was pulled down by her grandson, Henry VII., her coffin was found to be decayed, and her body was taken up, and placed in a chest, near her first husband's tomb.
I spent my time there walking in the garden, talking with James Pierce, who tells me that he is certain that the Duke of Buckingham had been with his wenches all the time that he was absent, which was all the last week, nobody knowing where he was.
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