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Hace 4 días · In 1696, when that lease expired, the western division passed to Isabella Fitzroy, duchess of Grafton, under a reversionary lease granted to her father, Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington (d. 1685). The duchess also secured a further reversionary lease of 99 years, running from the death of Catherine of Braganza (1705).
14 de jun. de 2024 · On November 4, 1679, Henry, now the newly created Duke of Grafton, and Isabella were married. In 1685, when her father died, Isabella became the 2nd Countess of Arlington in her own right. Henry and Isabella had one son who succeeded his parents as 2nd Duke of Grafton and 3rd Earl of Arlington:
Hace 3 días · William and Dorothea’s children married into the British aristocracy and their many descendants include notable people including Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife and Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk who were granddaughters of King Edward VII, and former British Prime Minister David Cameron.
1 de jul. de 2024 · The first, available here, takes focuses on Mary Howard/Fitzroy, Duchess of Richmond, 1555, cousin to Queen Anne Boleyn and wife of the King Henry VIII’s illegitimate son Henry Fitzroy. The second podcast explores the ways in which women circumvented patriarchy during the sixteenth-century, from managing huge estates to their roles as mothers ...
Hace 5 días · In 1542 a number of Crown estates in the hundred of Cleley and elsewhere in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire were combined by Act of Parliament to become the honor of Grafton, centred on the manor of that name, which became known as Grafton Regis and where the existing manor house was greatly enlarged.
28 de jun. de 2024 · On June 28, 1716, fifty-year-old George Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Northumberland died suddenly at Frogmore House. He was buried at Westminster Abbey in London, England, in the Duke of Albemarle’s Vault in the north aisle of the Henry VII Chapel.
Hace 5 días · Charlotte Street, the thoroughfare leading from Rathbone Place to Fitzroy Square, was named either after Charlotte, Duchess of Grafton, or after the Queen of George III. Here, in the house formerly occupied by Sir Thomas Apreece, George Morland, the celebrated painter, was living in 1796.
