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Hace 3 días · In 1659, Barbara married the Roman Catholic Roger Palmer, later 1st Earl of Castlemaine, against his family’s wishes. At the end of 1659, Roger and his new wife left with other supporters of the exiled Charles, Prince of Wales (the future King Charles II) joining him in the Spanish Netherlands. In 1660, Barbara became King Charles II’s ...
Hace 2 días · The offices of gentleman of the bedchamber were in the gift of the Crown. (fn. 1) From 1660 the office of first gentleman was invariably coupled with that of groom of the stole. Originally the gentlemen were sworn in pursuance of royal warrants directed to the lord chamberlain. (fn. 2) From 1685 to 1688 these warrants were directed to the groom ...
Hace 2 días · -, Roger, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, 1544; Ambassador Extraordinary to Rome, 453, 492, 493, 499, 874, 890, 902–3, 911, 932, 939, 1165, 1166, 1327, 1328, 1353, 1356–7, 1471, 1474, 1561, 1571, 1573–4, 1615, 1617, 2138; book of his, Entry into Rome, 1974; plate issued to him for his embassy, grant of, as royal bounty, 2129, 2138.
Hace 4 días · These grantees sold their interest in 1675 to Anthony Hammond of St. Albans Court, Nonington (Co. Kent), and the conveyance was confirmed by Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine and Barbara Duchess of Cleveland, his notorious wife, who was daughter and sole heir of William Viscount Grandison.
Hace 3 días · ‘Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography’, an exhibition of royal portraits running until October, depicts King Charles as a boy, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Princess Margaret (shown ...
Hace 2 días · Thereafter, an interesting picture emerges of Roger III from Morris's narrative, thanks in particular both to the author's painstaking reconstruction of events from 1228 (the year of the attainment of Roger III's majority) onwards, and to the very 'memorable images' (p. 184) of the earl presented to us by poets and by the chroniclers of a warlike and quick-tempered man, a 'vir bellicosus', who ...
Hace 4 días · Thomas Randolph second earl of Moray (d. 1332), was killed at Dupplin Moor, and was succeeded by his brother, John Randolph, who was killed at Neville’s Cross. The brothers were childless, and Moray passed to the earl of Dunbar, husband of their sister Agnes Dunbar.
