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Hace 2 días · Charles Lennox (1672–1723), created Duke of Richmond (1675) in England and Duke of Lennox (1675) in Scotland. By Mary 'Moll' Davis , courtesan and actress of repute: [152] Lady Mary Tudor (1673–1726), married Edward Radclyffe, 2nd Earl of Derwentwater ; after Edward's death, she married Henry Graham (of Levens) , and upon his death she married James Rooke.
- 29 May 1660 –, 6 February 1685
- Henrietta Maria of France
Hace 2 días · He died in 1748 and Charles Lennox, second Duke of Richmond, of Goodwood House, was appointed high steward in his place. As Earl of March, the Duke had sat as member for Chichester. (fn. 15) The office of high steward was held by the Dukes of Richmond down to the death of the fifth duke (d. 1860), when the Reform Act had largely ...
Hace 2 días · When the English took over, they dubbed the island Richmond County, for the illegitimate son of Charles II, Charles Lennox Duke of Richmond.
Hace 5 días · Charles II did not retain it long. He gave it in 1675 to his illegitimate son Charles Lennox, whom he created at the same time Duke of Richmond, and from him it has descended in the direct male line to the present Duke of Richmond and Gordon.
Hace 4 días · Charles Lennox, the 1st Duke of Richmond, was born on 29 July 1672 and died, aged 50, on 27 May 1723. He was an illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth. Lennox was created Duke of Richmond on 9 August 1675 and was invested as a Knight of the Garter in 1681.
Hace 5 días · The story of Henry Fox's elopement with the Duke of Richmond's daughter, Lady Georgiana Caroline Lennox, is thus told in the "Old Court Suburb:"—"The duke was a grandson of Charles II., and both he and the duchess had declined to favour the suit of Mr. Fox, the son of the equivocal Sir Stephen.
Hace 4 días · War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), conflict that arose out of the disputed succession to the throne of Spain following the death of the childless Charles II, the last of the Spanish Habsburgs. The treaties that ended the war marked the rise of the power of Britain and the British colonial empire.
