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William Heveningham, d. 1675, married Barbara Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 4th Viscount Grandison; Abigail Heveningham, 1660–1686, married Sir John Newton, 3rd Baronet of Barrs Court. They were the maternal grandparents of Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham Hall; See also. List of regicides of Charles I; Notes
Barbara Villiers, born in 1640, was the daughter of William Villiers, Viscount Grandison, a royalist who died in 1643 of wounds received in the Civil War. In 1659 she married Roger Palmer, a lawyer, during an affair with Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, who in January 1660 had to leave England after killing an adversary in a duel
El dormitorio del rey en el Palacio de Hampton Court, por James Digman Wingfield (1849).En la parte superior izquierda pueden observarse los retratos de Frances Stuart, duquesa de Richmond, y Jane Needham, Mrs Myddelton; en la parte inferior pueden apreciarse los retratos de Barbara Villiers, duquesa de Cleveland, y Elizabeth Hamilton, condesa de Gramont.
RCIN 404957. This picture forms one of the ‘Windsor Beauties’ series, a set of eleven portraits of celebrated women at the Restoration court painted by Sir Peter Lely. The series was apparently commissioned or at least assembled by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, probably around 1662-5. Pepys recorded on 21 August 1668 that he ‘did first see ...
Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham (née Beaumont; c. 1570 – 19 April 1632) is perhaps best known as the mother of the royal favourite George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. She was the daughter of Anthony Beaumont of Glenfield, Leicestershire , a direct descendant of Henry de Beaumont , and his wife Anne Armstrong, daughter of Thomas Armstrong of Corby .
This chapter examines two portraits of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland (1641–1709), and one of Charles II’s numerous mistresses. Painted between 1660 and 1668 by Sir Peter Lely, the portraits functioned as important sites for self-presentation in early modern England.
Born in 1664; died in 1717 (some sources cite 1718); illegitimate daughter of Charles II, king of England, and Barbara Villiers (c. 1641–1709); married Edward Henry Lee, earl of Lichfield, in 1677 (died 1716). In 1670, Charles signed the Treaty of Dover with France. Under the terms of this agreement, France and England united to make war ...
