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	The Peerage - Marquesses
		It was introduced to England by Richard II, brother-in-law of the Margrave of Brandenburg, the honour being conferred upon Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who became Marquess of Dublin in 1385.
		The precedence between Dukes and Earls caused great offence to the Earls, and the patent was revoked in1386 in favor of the Dukedom of Ireland.
		When John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset, was attainted and the House of Commons appealed to Richard II for it's restoration, Beaufort begged the King not to restore this particular title "as the name of Marquess is a strange name in this realm."
	www.hereditarytitles.com /Page13.html (184 words)

	Wikinfo \| Marquess
		A woman with the rank of marquess, or the wife of a marquess, is a marchioness.
		On the 13 October 1386 the patent of this marquessate was recalled, Robert de Vere as was raised to Duke of Oxford.
		John de Beaufort, Earl of Somerset, the second legitimate son of John of Gaunt, was raised to the second marquessate as Marquess of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset on in September 1397.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Marquess (424 words)

	Castle History
		His nephew was the first Marquess, most famous because of his wife, Elizabeth, the daughter of a wealthy English wool merchant.
		The first Marquess died in 1832 and was succeeded by his son, Francis Nathaniel, who pursued a highly successful career in politics, attaining Cabinet rank, and an equally successful career at court, where he held the position of Lord Chamberlain to both William IV and Queen Victoria.
		The present head of the Conyngham family is the seventh Marquess Conyngham, and the Castle is currently occupied by his eldest son, Henry, the present Earl of Mount Charles, continuing an active association between the Conynghams and Slane dating back to the beginning of the eighteenth century.
	home.mindspring.com /~thomasroughan/id5.html (662 words)

	Marquess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A woman with the rank of Marquess (rare), or the wife of a Marquess, is a Marchioness, pronounced: Mar-she-on-ess (spoken:Mah-shuh-ness).
		On 13 October 1386, the patent of this marquessate was recalled, and Robert de Vere was raised to Duke of Ireland.
		John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the second legitimate son of John of Gaunt, was raised to the second marquessate as Marquess of Dorset in September 1397.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marquess (1293 words)

	Skylighters, The Web Site of the 225th AAA Searchlight Battalion: Searchlight Sites in the Newcastle Area: TT221 -- ...
		Marquess of Londonderry, died in 1821 and was succeeded in his titles and possessions by his childless eldest son Castlereagh who became the 2nd.
		In 1843 Lord Londonderry's eldest daughter Fanny was married to the Marquess of Blandford, eldest son and heir of the Duke of Marlborough.
		Marquess of Londonderry, in a nursing home at Hastings on November 25 1872, the connection between the marquessate and Seaham was restored.
	www.skylighters.org /seaham/index.html (12112 words)

	Camelot International: Britain's Heritage and History
		The premier Marquess of England is the Marquess of Winchester and the present holder of this title lives in what was Rhodesia.
		The Cecils hold two marquessates, those of Salisbury and Exeter and the last marquessate to be created was that of Willingdon in 1936 conferred upon a former Viceroy of India.
		A Marquess is 'The Most Hon.' and his children are addressed in a similar way to the children of dukes, the eldest son bearing one of his father's subsidiary titles by courtesy.
	www.camelotintl.com /heritage/peerage/marq.html (230 words)

	Crown - LoveToKnow 1911
		Previous to this dukes had been invested at their creation by the girding on of a sword only.
		created Richard de Vere marquess of Dublin, and invested him by girding on a sword, and by placing a golden circlet on his head.
		The golden circlet was confined to dukes and marquesses till 1 444, when Henry VI.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Crown (3156 words)

	Anglo-Norman Dublin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1283 a dreadful fire raged in Dublin, whereby the greater part of the city was consumed, including the 'campanile et capitulum Sanctae Trinitatis' (Christchurch); and in 1304 another accidental fire consumed St. Mary's Abbey with its church and steeples, and destroyed the Chancery rolls which were there deposited.
		This district varied in extent in proportion to the relative strength and cohesion of the native Irish and the English settlers, and of it Dublin was the acknowledged capital and centre.
		In 1423 the Mayor and commonalty of Dublin received a grant to march with a body of men-at-arms and archers under the Viceroy, the Earl of Ormonde, to defend the frontiers of Louth.
	www.chapters.eiretek.org /books/ossory/ossory2.htm (7071 words)

	MORE SECRET SOCIETIES (1785-1790)
		As Dublin was quite as much disturbed as the north and south, a bill for the appointment of a number of constables to aid the city watchmen was passed this year after some opposition.
		This divergence was subsequently used as an argument by Pitt in favour of the union, on the ground of the possibility that at some future time the two kingdoms might choose two different regents, which would lead to very serious complications.
		In order to break up the party against him the marquess of Buckingham bribed unsparingly : he gave peerages, places, pensions, and money, openly and without limit; and he dismissed all holders of the prince of Wales, including the duke of Leinster.
	www.travelinireland.com /ireland_history/ireland_history6_more_secret_societies1_1785_1790.htm (426 words)

	Monks coat of arms
		However, the Monks family of Dublin and Wicklow, would seem not to be derived from either of these Gaelic names, but rather from the Anglo-Norman family, originally known as Le Moyne.
		The oldest known ancestor of the Dublin Monks family was William le Moyne of Potheridge in Devonshire who was known to be living in 1424.
		Charles Monck Esq., of Grange Gorman, county Dublin was descended from the above-mentioned Robert le Moyne of Devon.
	www.araltas.com /features/monks/index.html (720 words)

	Anglo-Norman Dublin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This district varied in extent in proportion to the relative strength and cohesion of the native Irish and the English settlers, and of it Dublin was the acknowledged capital and centre.
		In 1423 the Mayor and commonalty of Dublin received a grant to march with a body of men-at-arms and archers under the Viceroy, the Earl of Ormonde, to defend the frontiers of Louth.
		Humphrey Jervis, Lord Mayor of Dublin, employed a portion of the building to provide materials for the erection of Essex Bridge, which fell into the river, 10 years later, while a coach and horses were passing over it, and the coachman was drowned.
	www.eiretek.org /chapters/books/ossory/ossory2.htm (7071 words)

	Noble Titles - References for Romance Fiction by Carolyn Jewel
		Marquess, which means lord of the marches (that is, borders) is a title unknown in England before 1385.
		The son of a duke, a marquess or an earl bears the second title of his father, by courtesy of the crown.
		For example, the Marquess of Huntingdon is a commoner, just like John Smith; and he is a member of the House of Commons, which he would not be if he were really a marquess.
	www.carolynjewel.com /references/rgw.shtml (1101 words)

	Dublin Tourism - Georgian Heritage Walking Trail of Dublin
		The Provost's House (L) on the corner of Trinity College, built in 1760, is one the grandest of Dublin's Georgian mansions, with a coved ceiling in the salon which runs the entire length of the building.
		In 1814 Leinster House was acquired by the Royal Dublin Society, from whom it was bought by the Irish Government in 1925 to become the seat of the national parliament, Oireachtas na hÉireann.
		The Lord Mayor as Dublin's first citizen presides over many of the committees that are responsible for the formation of policy and welfare in the city, and also receives visiting dignitaries and groups.
	www.dublinpass.com /tours/georgian2.asp (5036 words)

	The Peerage - Marquesses
		It was introduced to England by Richard II, brother-in-law of the Margrave of Brandenburg, the honour being conferred upon Robert de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who became Marquess of Dublin in 1385.
		The precedence between Dukes and Earls caused great offence to the Earls, and the patent was revoked in1386 in favor of the Dukedom of Ireland.
		When John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset, was attainted and the House of Commons appealed to Richard II for it's restoration, Beaufort begged the King not to restore this particular title "as the name of Marquess is a strange name in this realm."
	hereditarytitles.com /Page13.html (184 words)

	GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE
		Across the board, the newspapers were almost unanimous with praise for the Marquess, supporting the idea that he was only trying to protect his son from Wilde's evil influences.
		The Star published an interview held with the Marquess where he shared his surprise and pleasure at the number of letters he'd received from around the world, congratulating him and offering their support.
		As Act I ends, the Marquess of Queensberry celebrates his triumph by sending a letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions including the details of the trial and his own witnesses' statements, giving the authorities no choice but to arrest Oscar Wilde.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/9899/gross/PNgross.shtml (11286 words)

	Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh
		The son, known in history as Lord Castlereagh, was born on the 18th of June in the same year as Napoleon and Wellington.
		His father accepted, at Portland's request, an Irish marquessate, on the understanding that in the future he or his heirs might claim the same rank in the Imperial Legislature; so that Castlereagh was able to sit in the House of Commons as Marquess in 1821-22.
		Castlereagh, now Marquess of Londonderry, was again to be the British representative, and he drew up for himself instructions that were handed over unaltered by Canning, his successor at the Foreign Office, to the new plenipotentiary, Wellington.
	www.nndb.com /people/357/000095072 (3920 words)

	DUBLIN - Online Information article about DUBLIN
		possession of which Dublin is remarkable, was founded by Sigtryg, a Christ Christianized king of the Danes of Dublin, in 1038, Church.
		The magnetic observatory of Dublin was erected in the years 1837–1838 in the gardens attached to Trinity College, at the expense of the university.
		Fawcett's Act, all tests were abolished, and the prizes and honours of all grades hitherto reserved for Protestants of the Established Church were thrown open to all.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DRO_ECG/DUBLIN.html (4095 words)

	Richard II - LoveToKnow 1911
		Pole, whom he retained as chancellor and made earl of Suffolk, was a well-chosen adviser.
		But others, and especially his youthful favourite Robert de Vere, promoted by unheard-of honour to be marquess of Dublin and duke of Ireland, were less worthy.
		Further, Richard made his own position difficult by lavish extravagance and unseemly outbursts of temper.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Richard_II (1551 words)

	thePeerage.com - General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and others
		She married General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, son of John Petty, 1st Earl of Shelburne and Mary FitzMaurice, on 3 February 1765 in Chapel Royal, St. James's, London, England.
		She married, secondly, John Henry Petty, 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne, son of General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and Lady Sophia Carteret, on 27 May 1805 in 33 Mount Street, St. George Hanover Square, London, England.
		She married Sir Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne, son of General Sir William Petty, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne and Lady Louisa FitzPatrick, on 30 March 1808 in Melbury, England.
	www.thepeerage.com /p3843.htm (2787 words)

	Freer Family Research - Eliza Butler Pedigree
		The 6th Marquess of Ormonde (James) Arthur Norman Butler, C.V.O., M.C.), Earl of Ormonde and Ossory, and Viscount Thurles, of Thurles, co. Tipperary, in Ireland; Baron Ormonde, of Llanthony, co. Monmouth, in the United Kingdom, educ.
		His Lordship disposed of the grant of the prisage of the wines of Ireland, ma de to the 4th Butler by EDWARD I, to the Crown in 1810 for œ218,000, and the contract received the sanction of Parliament by an act passed 31 May, 1811.
		Marquess, 29 Oct. 1825, Baron Ormonde of the United Kingdom, 17 July, 1821.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~sfreer/ormonde.html (4335 words)

	Dublin (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dublin capital city of the Republic of Ireland
		Marquess of Dublin - Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford
		Dublin Convention the asylum accord of the European Union
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dublin_(disambiguation) (108 words)

	Banbridge, Co. Down, Ireland, Lewis, 1837 description ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This flourishing town was Anciently called Ballyvally, and acquired its present name from the erection of a bridge over the river Bann in 1719, on the formation of a new line of road from Dublin to Belfast.
		The Marquess of Downshire is proprietor of the town and a large tract of land in its vicinity.
		Within half a mile from the town, on the Dromore road, a sulphureous chalybeate spring has been lately discovered, the water of which having been analyzed is found to equal that of Aix la Chapelle, and is efficacious in scorbutic complaints.
	www.from-ireland.net /lewis/down/banbridge.htm (1121 words)

	Carrickmines Castle, the Vale of Shanganagh, Dalkey, Killiney and Ballybrack Hills
		During the Insurrection of 1641, a strong body of the insurgents established themselves in the castle, to dislodge whom a small body of cavalry was sent out from Dublin on a Saturday in the month of March, under command of Sir Simon Harcourt, an officer of experience and distinction.
		At this time Harcourt with some of his officers, had taken shelter behind a thatched cabin, but incautiously exposing himself to give commands, he was picked out by one of the sharpshooters in the castle armed with a long piece which had already done great execution, and shot in the breast under the neck bone.
		In consequence of Dalkey having been for so long the port of Dublin, quite a number of distinguished historical personages landed there from time to time, and a metal tablet, setting forth their names and the dates of arrival, was formerly attached to a large rock at Coliemore harbour.
	www.eiretek.org /chapters/books/Neighbourhood/chapter5.html (2706 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: Edmund Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Burke was Irish, born in Dublin in 1729.
		He entered Trinity college, Dublin, in 1744, and came to London in 1750.
		His political career started in 1765 when he became the private secretary of one of the Whig leaders in Parliament, the marquess of Rockingham.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/B/eburke/burke.htm (434 words)

	Oxford Household - Ancestry 2
		Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford, at the age of 15 acted as Chamberlain of England at the coronation of Richard II.
		Richard II created him Marquess of Dublin in 1385 and in 1386 Duke of Ireland.
		Robert lost the so-called battle of Radcot Bridge, against the Lords Appellant (headed by Gloucester and Henry of Bolingbroke) in December 1387 and in the proceedings of the Merciless Parliament of 1388 was attainted for treason and sentenced to death, although by that time he had fled into self-imposed exile in France (and later Brabant).
	www.oxfords.btinternet.co.uk /ancestry2.html (362 words)

	EARL \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		An Earl or Jarl was an Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian title, meaning "chieftain" and it referred especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead.
		In Scandinavia, it became obsolete in the Middle Ages, whereas, in Britain, it became synonymous with the continental count.Today, an earl is a member of the British peerage and ranks below a Marquess and above a Viscount.
		In 1382 maakte Richard II van Engeland de Earl lager in rang dan de Marquess, net zoals op het continent een markies hoger is dan een graaf.
	www.babylon.com /definition/EARL/All (385 words)

	The Coronets of Members of the Royal Family and of the Peerage
		In the early seventeenth century the robes, or mantles, were of a circular cut, open from the shoulder on the right hand side, and with a short slit at the front of the neck.
		Marquesses had coronets from 1385, earls received a coronet in 1547, viscounts 1604 (although the evidence is conflicting(10)), and barons only in 1661.
		Marquesses have four strawberry leaves and four silver balls(11) a little raised on points or spikes from the rim of the coronet.
	www.geocities.com /noelcox/coronets.htm (2397 words)

	The Long Conversion of Oscar Wilde
		Born in Dublin in 1854 to a Protestant Anglo-Irish family, Wilde came at age 20 to Oxford University in England, where he was taught by the critic and novelist Walter Pater.
		Whatever the reason behind it, the trial of the Marquess for libel lasted only two days, for on the third day Wilde's counsel, realizing that the defendant had abundant evidence of the fact of Wilde's sodomy, withdrew the action.
		He left for France, where for a time he was reunited with Lord Alfred, until lack of money and threats from both their families (the Marquess threatening Alfred with exclusion from his will, Constance Wilde threatening Oscar with exclusion from his two sons) separated them once and for all.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/arts/al0010.html (3102 words)

	Our Trip to Ireland & Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Dublin houses are unique because of their brightly colored doors.
		South of Dublin is an ancient monastery known as Glendalough.
		Westport was specially designed near the end of the 18th century by the Marquess of Sligo.
	www.richgros.com /IS_Web/Ireland/index.html (984 words)

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