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Hace 1 día · She married Roger Palmer in 1659 and shortly afterwards became the mistress of Charles II. On her husband's elevation to the peerage she became Countess of Castlemaine, (fn. 40) and she was created Duchess of Cleveland in 1670.
Hace 4 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 3 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 3 días · Then there is Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, fairest and gayest of the fair but frail beauties of the Court of the second Charles: this lady was the daughter of William, Viscount Grandison, and wife of Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine, one of the Palmers of Wingham, Kent, and of Dorney Court, Backs.
Hace 2 días · Pages 569-579. Calendar of the Cecil Papers in Hatfield House: Volume 19, 1607.Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1965.
Hace 2 días · Englishmen have always travelled. According to French Abbé Le Blanc, they travelled more than other people of Europe because `they look upon their isle as a sort of prison; and the first use they make of their liberty is to get out of it'.(1) For young elite males who travelled to France and Italy for up to five years, the Grand Tour was, most historians agree, ‘intended to provide the ...
Hace 5 días · The earl had five sons, one of whom became Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, another was Francis Pierrepont (d. 1659), a colonel in the parliamentary army and afterwards a member of the Long Parliament; and another was William Pierrepont (1608-1679), father-in-law of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and also Henry Cavendish Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
