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Earl of Wessex. the 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten. Earl of Wessex is a title that has been created twice in British history – once in the pre- Conquest Anglo-Saxon nobility of England, and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In the 6th century AD the region of Wessex (the lands of the West Saxons ), in the south ...
Arundel Castle in Sussex, much rebuilt in modern times, the principal seat of the Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, Earls of Arundel and of Surrey, etc Arms of d'Aubigny, Earls of Arundel, as blazoned in Charles's roll of arms (13th century), for Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel (d.1243): Gules, a lion rampant or.
His father having died in 1938, Alastair succeeded, on his grandfather's death in 1942, to the titles Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex. However, he died in 1943 at the age of 28 "on active service" in Ottawa, Ontario , Canada, in unusual circumstances.
History First creation, 1074. The first creation occurred in 1074 for Roger de Montgomerie, one of William the Conqueror's principal counsellors. He was one of the Marcher Lords, with the Earl of Hereford and the Earl of Chester, a bulwark against the Welsh; he was granted great powers, and his territory, which extended from Shropshire (of which Shrewsbury is the county town) into Mid-Wales ...
It is possible, therefore, that a historical king named Ælle existed, who arrived from the continent in the late 5th century, and who conquered much of what is now Sussex. He may have been a prominent war chief with a leadership role in a federation of Anglo-Saxon groups fighting for territory in Britain at that time.
Following the death of their only son, the unmarried second Earl, both titles became extinct on 7 January 1749. [1] [4] On 16 July 2018, the title was recreated in the Peerage of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II as one of the two subsidiary titles for her grandson Prince Harry , Duke of Sussex , on the occasion of his wedding , when he was also created Baron Kilkeel .
10 de abr. de 2024 · June 9, 1583, London. Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd earl of Sussex (born c. 1525—died June 9, 1583, London) was an English lord lieutenant of Ireland who suppressed a rebellion of the Roman Catholics in the far north of England in 1569. He was the first governor of Ireland to attempt, to any considerable extent, enforcement of English authority ...
