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  HEREFORDSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on HEREFORDSHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1291 it comprised the deaneries of Hereford, Weston, Leominster, Weobley, Frome, Archenfield and Ross in the archdeaconry of Hereford, and the deaneries of Burford, Stottesdon, Ludlow, Pontesbury, Clun and Wenlock, in the archdeaconry of Shropshire.
In 1606 an act was passed declaring Hereford free from the jurisdiction of the council of Wales, but the county was not finally relieved from the interference of the Lords Marchers until the reign of William and Mary.
Hereford was again represented in 1299, and Bromyard and Ross in 1304, but the boroughs made very irregular returns, and from 1306 until Weobley regained representation in 1627, only Hereford and Leominster were represented.
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 Viscount Hereford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viscount Hereford is the senior Viscount in the Peerage of England.
In 1611 Edward Devereux, a younger son of Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford, was created a baronet by King James I.
On the death of the 4th viscount (also the 3rd Earl of Essex), Sir Edward's son Walter succeeded to the viscouncty, and the baronetcy and viscountcy have remained merged.
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 Viscount Hereford
Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford and 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley in consideration of the active and distinguished part he had taken in the French wars of Henry VIII was created Viscount Hereford on February 2, 1550.
Robert, 2nd Earl of Essex and 3rd Viscount Hereford was a Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Earl Marshal of England.
Robert, 3rd Earl of Essex and 4th Viscount Hereford, KG, was attached to the Royal cause until 1642, when he accepted a General's commission and a command in the Parliamentary Army.
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 The O'Brien Clan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Viscounts display nine silver balls on a circlet in an heraldic representation of their coronet.
Even if a Viscount has a secondary title of baron, this is not used by his heir and all his children are simply 'Hons'.
Viscount Hereford is the premier Viscount in England.
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 EARLS OF ESSEX - LoveToKnow Article on EARLS OF ESSEX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
With the earldom of Hereford the earldom of Essex became extinct in 1373; afterwards it was held by Thomas of Woodstock, duke of Gloucester, a son of Edward III.
His grandfather was the 2nd Baron Ferrers, who was created Viscount Hereford in 1550 and by his mcther was a nephew of Henry Bourchier, a former earl of Essex.
Walter Devereux succeeded as 2nd Viscount Hereford in 1558, and in 1561 or 1562 married Lettice, daughter of Sir Francis Knollys.
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 Earl of Hereford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Earl of Hereford was created several times in the Peerage of England.
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1208-1275)
Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford (1251-1298)
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 Find in a Library: Ancient biographical poems, on the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount Hereford, the Earls of Essex, and Queen ...
Find in a Library: Ancient biographical poems, on the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount Hereford, the Earls of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth.
Ancient biographical poems, on the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount Hereford, the Earls of Essex, and Queen Elizabeth.
Hereford, Walter Devereux, -- 1st Viscount, -- d.
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 Earl of Oxford and the Order of the Garter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A viscount, who ranks between an earl and a baron, could be nominated under either category, 'prince' or 'baron'.
Hereford's wife was the Queen's first cousin once removed (the daughter of Francis Knollys), and Hereford had shown great energy opposing the Northern rebellion of 1569-70, hence the Queen's favor.
Burghley's forbearance stands in marked contrast to Viscount Montague's reaction to the rejection of his daughter by the second Earl of Southampton.
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 Walter Devereux, 1st earl of Essex --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Devereux and the grandson of Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford, to whose…
Essex, Walter Devereux, 1st earl of, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers, Lord Bourchier...
"Essex, Walter Devereux, 1st earl of, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers, Lord Bourchier." Encyclopædia Britannica.
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 Walter DEVEREUX (1º E. Essex)
His grandfather was the 2nd Baron Ferrers, who was created Viscount Hereford in 1550 and by his mother was a nephew of Henry Bourchier, a former earl of Essex.
Walter Devereux succeeded as 2nd Viscount Hereford in 1558, and in 1561 or 1562 married Lettice, dau.
In 1569 he served as high marshal of the field under the Earl of Warwick and Lord Clinton, and materially assisted them in suppressing the northern insurrection.
www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/WalterDevereux(1EEssex).htm   (384 words)

  
 GENUKI: English Peerage 1790: index page
I was originally going to supply the information as a pure text file, however in this form it was very hard to read and so my daughter Anne and I have "htmlised" it - this detracts nothing from the original text which is still word for word as per the original (errors notwithstanding).
The Viscount files are approximately 41KBytes each, and the Barons 30Kilobytes each.
Please note that what you see is what there is, I do not have any more information, however if you should need a date or word checking then I will willingly do this.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/History/Barons   (237 words)

  
 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
He was the first to be advanced to the dignity of a Viscount in England.
868 (app 30.4.1925) Edmund Bernard (Fitzalan-Howard), Viscount Fitzalan of Derwent.
Earl of Hereford, K.G. Married Thomas of Woodstock, Earl of Buckingham, K.G., afterwards Duke of Gloucester.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mandeville Geoffrey de 1st Earl of Essex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fitzpeter, Geoffrey, Earl of Essex (?-1213), English politician, who became Earl of Essex in 1190 through his marriage to a descendant of Geoffrey...
Devereux, Walter, 1st Earl of Essex and 2nd Viscount of Hereford (1541-1576), English soldier and statesman, who was created Earl of Essex by...
Bohun, Humphrey VIII de, Earl of Essex (1276-1322), earl of Hereford, England, and 4th earl of Essex, England.
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 Berkshire History: Biographies: Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex & Leicester (1540-1634)
It was probably under such conditions that she met her first husband, Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford and, afterwards, Earl of Essex.
Essex had succeeded his father as second Viscount Hereford in September 1558, a few weeks before Elizabeth came to the throne.
The Queen was not amused and the couple were obliged to retire to the Viscount's Welsh homeland.
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 app5 - Title
Devereux, Walter: Created Viscount Hereford in 1550 and created Earl of Essex in 1572.
Durette:[3] The Earl of Essex, Walter Devereux, also Viscount Herefordfrom 1550; who became Earl of Essex in 1572.
Hereford, Lord: The title was created in 1550 and died with the second Viscount in 1576.
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Representatives remain there as the Viscount of Hereford, and others passed on to Ireland with the Norman invasion around 1100 giving rise to the Lords of Balmagir in Wexford County and their many sub-branches.
Both English and Irish representatives immigrated to the colonies including America in which three of the earliest lines are known: John Devereux of Massachusetts, Jonathan Devereaux of Connecticut, and Thomas Devericks of Virginia.
Armorial Bearings of the Viscounts of Hereford, England
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 The Man Who Laughs -- Chapter 93   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In renewing this precedent the Lord Chancellor was creating for himself a future cause for embarrassment, of which he felt the inconvenience less than two years afterward on the entrance of Viscount Newhaven into the House of Lords.
Short-sighted as we have already stated him to be, Lord William Cowper scarcely perceived the deformity of Gwynplaine; while the two sponsors, being old and nearly blind, did not perceive it at all.
On the viscounts' benches was a group of old peers, Essex, Ossulstone, Peregrine, Osborne, William Zulestein, Earl of Rochford, and among them, a few more youthful ones, of the faction which did not wear wigs, gathered round Prince Devereux, Viscount Hereford, and discussing the question whether an infusion of apalaca holly was tea.
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 Viscount Palmerston -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Viscount Palmerston -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Viscount Palmerston was a title in the (Click link for more info and facts about Peerage of Ireland) Peerage of Ireland created on March 12, 1723, along with the subsidiary title Baron Temple of Mount Temple.
Upon the death of the third Viscount (who served as (Click link for more info and facts about Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom), the title became extinct.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/vi/viscount_palmerston.htm   (114 words)

  
 Titles and Forms of Address
The grades are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount and Baron.
But in no case is the preposition 'of' used between the style and the title.
Thus, it is always Viscount Jones or Viscount Hereford, not the Viscount of Hereford.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 90   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Pownoll Irving Edward, Viscount Exmouth 9th Pellew, b.
Pyers Anthony Joseph, Viscount Southwell 7th Southwell, b.
Ralph the Timid of Hereford, Earl of Hereford de Sudeley
www.dcs.hull.ac.uk /genealogy/royal/gedFx90.html   (389 words)

  
 How I am descended from the Prophet Muhammad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Isabel Plantagenet married Henry Bourchier, who was created Earl of Essex, and had 28) a son, William Bourchier; he married Anne Wydeville and had 29) a daughter, Cecile Bourchier (d.
1493); she married John Devereaux, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, and had 30) a son, Walter Devereaux (1477-1558), Viscount Hereford.
Walter, Viscount Hereford, had 31) a son, Sir Richard Devereux (d.
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On his death the peerage fell into abeyance
E[I] Created Viscount Erne 6 Jan 1781 and
He was created Earl of Mar (qv) in 1565
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 Records of the Anglo-Norman House of Glanville from A.D. 1050 to 1880 - Pedigrees
+- Eudes, Steward of England, Viscount of the Cotentin 1094.
+- Sir Bartholomew de Glanville, Viscount of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1169-1175.
Edward, Admiral Boscawen, General of Marines and Lord of the Admiralty, 2nd son of Hugh, Viscount Falmouth.
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 Elizabethan Raised Embroidery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In the British Museum is Archbishop Parker's De Antiquitate Ecclesiae bound in green velvet and embroidered in raised work with gold, silver, and silks.
Other excellent examples of Elizabethan raised work are the Master's Crown of the Broderers' Company (given charter by Queen Elizabeth in 1561) and the "Devereux Bodice" owned by Viscount Hereford.
Even the Princess Elizabeth made a riased work bookbinding in 1545 for her stepmother, Katherine Parr, when she was only eleven years old.
moas.atlantia.sca.org /oak/15/eliz.htm   (837 words)

  
 Devereux - ancestry of Earl of Essex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Source: The Complete Peerage (Ferrers, Essex, Hereford), and Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 1980.
See my Devereux lead page for further details of Sir Walter and his ancestry.
Walter (Devereux), Viscount Hereford and Lord Ferrers, son and heir of Sir Richard by Dorothy, and grandson and heir of Walter.
www.btinternet.com /~russell.robinson/Devereu1.htm   (142 words)

  
 Holland Treatise
To the Right Honourable Lord Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex and Ewe, Viscount of Hereford and Bouschier, Lord Ferrers of Chartley, Bourchier and Lovairie, Master of the Queen's Majesty's Horse, and Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter.
H.H. wisheth with his heart grace from God the Father by Jesus Christ, increase of all virtues, and constancy in the truth of the Gospel to the end.
II Thessalonians 2:9 "Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders"
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 Additional Reading (from Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers, Lord Bourchier...
"Essex, Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of, Viscount Hereford, Lord Ferrers, Lord Bourchier." Encyclopædia Britannica.
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