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Hace 1 día · Hugh Percy, 10th Duke of Northumberland. Lady Elizabeth Montagu Douglas Scott. Ralph George Algernon Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland, DL (born 16 November 1956), styled Lord Ralph Percy until 1995, is a British hereditary peer and rural landowner and current head of the House of Percy .
- Lord Ralph Percy
Hace 2 días · Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire. — Sir William Cavendish, descended from an ancient family who took their name from Cavendish in Suffolk , the place of their residence, settled in Derbyshire in consequence of his marriage with the heiress of Hard wick, about the year 1544; by which match he became possessed of Hardwick-hall, and other estates.
Hace 4 días · In the middle of the 12th century it was held of the Mowbray fee by Peter 'de Thirsk' or 'de Hutton.' He founded a nunnery there and endowed it with 3 carucates of land in the vill. (fn. 61) The grant was confirmed by Roger de Mowbray (fn. 62) and by Elizabeth Carlton, heiress of Peter de Hutton, (fn. 63) who quitclaimed her right in Arden to the prioress in 1262.
Hace 4 días · It is now the property of the Duke of Devonshire, whose ancestor purchased it, in 1705, of the family of Pegge. The late Duke was impropriator when an inclosure act was passed in 1809: an allotment was then given in lieu of tithes.
Hace 2 días · In sum, Amanda Vickery's book, The Gentleman's Daughter, if read as a study of women's diaries and letters, reveals the sardonic, shrewd, compassionate, and humorous voices of these women and their historian: but it does not succeed in giving us a new paradigm for women's history.
Hace 3 días · Price: £30.00. Wellington: The Path to Victory, 1769-1814 is the first of two volumes based on exhaustive research on Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, by Rory Muir – to be precise, it is based on 30 years work on the subject. As Muir makes clear in his preface, his aim is a thorough re-assessment of Wellington’s life, countering ...
Hace 5 días · Notable Family Members: son Algirdas. Gediminas (born c. 1275—died 1341) was the grand duke of Lithuania, the strongest contemporary ruler of eastern Europe. Gediminas succeeded his brother Vytenis (Witen) in 1316 and started the Gediminian dynasty, which included his grandson Jagiełło, later Władysław II of Poland.
