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11 de feb. de 2022 · Frances Coke (1601-1645) was the younger daughter of Sir Edward Coke and Lady Elizabeth Cecil. She married John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, son of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont, Countess of Buckingham, on 29 September 1617. From 29 September 1617, her married name became Villiers. As a result of her marriage, Frances Coke was styled ...
Sir William Villiers, 1st Baronet (c. 1575 –1629) Sir George Villiers, 2nd Baronet (1620–1682) Sir William Villiers, 3rd Baronet (1645–1712) Viscounts Purbeck (1619) John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck (c. 1591–1658) Viscounts Grandison (1623) Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison, 1st Baron Tregoz (c. 1560 –1630)
George Villiers was the most notorious of James I ’s favourites: men admired by the King, with whom he developed what some regarded as unhealthily close and dangerously dependent relationships. Handsome and charming, Villiers was promoted rapidly at court and as a duke and one of James’s leading ministers, he had considerable power.
12 de sept. de 2022 · John Villiers (c. 1591 – 18 February 1658) was an English courtier from the Villiers family. The eldest son of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont , later Countess of Buckingham , he was the brother of King James I's favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham .
Elizabeth was buried according to her wishes in All Saints Parish Church at Wath-upon-Dearne in Yorkshire on 23 January 1696. Elizabeth Slingsby, Viscountess Purbeck, outlived her only sibling and two husbands and survived three-quarters of one of the more tumultuous centuries in British history.
The English courtier and military leader George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), greatly influenced kings James I and Charles I. His power was such that he virtually controlled the British government from 1618 to 1628. George Villiers was born in 1592, the son of Sir George Villiers of Brooksby, Leicestershire.
16 de nov. de 2023 · Under the King’s patronage, Villiers grew in power: in 1615, he was knighted as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. In 1616, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Whaddon, Viscount Villiers, and made a Knight of the Garter. The following year he was made an Earl, and finally in 1623, he was named Duke of Buckingham.
