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Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey (c. 1656 – 25 August 1711) was an English peer, courtier, and statesman of the Villiers family. He was created Baron Villiers and Viscount Villiers in 1691 and Earl of Jersey in 1697. A leading Tory politician opposed to the Whig Junto, he was made Southern Secretary in 1699.
Edward Villiers, 1:e earl av Jersey, född 1656, död den 25 augusti 1711, var en brittisk diplomat, dotterson till Theophilus Howard, 2:e earl av Suffolk, kusin till hertiginnan av Cleveland, farfar till Thomas Villiers, 1:e earl av Clarendon . Villiers stod i hög gunst hos Vilhelm III och drottning Maria, för vilken hans mor varit uppfostrarinna.
29 de ene. de 2024 · Before too long, Villiers had easily ousted the king’s previous favourite, Robert Carr, and thus ascended through the ranks with aplomb. Only a year after meeting the king, Villiers was knighted as Gentleman of the Bedchamber and the following year became the King’s Master of the Horse. By 1617 he had become the Earl of Buckingham and two ...
The original was destroyed in a fire at the Le Gallais depository in St Helier, Jersey, on 30 September 1949, but a sketch by Rubens is now in the Kimbell Art Museum. A summation of his career to date, it depicts Buckingham as Lord High Admiral of the fleet that is just visible in the background.
Thomas Villiers, 1:e earl av Clarendon, född 1709, död den 11 december 1786, var en brittisk diplomat, sonson till Edward Villiers, 1:e earl av Jersey, farfar till George Villiers, 4:e earl av Clarendon. Villiers blev 1737 envoyé i Warszawa och 1740 i Dresden (hosAugust III av Polen och Sachsen).
Language Label Description Also known as; English: Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey. British diplomat
6 de mar. de 2017 · The English nation continued, during the spring and summer of the year 1623, in anxious expectation of decisive news from Spain. Nothing could exceed the universal interest which this famous treaty of marriage between Charles and the Infanta inspired; nor had any subject so completely engrossed the public mind since the time of Henry the Eighth, when the ill-omened marriage of that prince with ...
