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The Earl of Doncaster: 1663 Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland: The Earl of Shaftesbury: 1672 The Earl of Nottingham: 1681 Held with the Earl of Winchilsea in Peerage of England The Earl of Abingdon: 1682 Held with the Earl of Lindsey in Peerage of England The Earl of Portland: 1689 The Earl of Scarbrough: 1690 The ...
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
Duke of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Leicester: Joan of Lancaster c. 1312 –1349: John (II) de Mowbray 1310–1361 3rd Baron Mowbray: Eleanor of Lancaster 1318–1372: Mary of Lancaster c. 1320 –1362: Earl of Worcester (2nd creation), 1397: John of Gaunt 1340–1399 Duke of Lancaster, 5th Earl of Lancaster, (6th) Earl of ...
Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images. Examples: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex . The highest degree of the British peerage system, a duke or duchess title is traditionally granted to a prince and his ...
2nd Earl of Chester: Lucia-Mahaut (d. 1120) Robert Rufus (c. 1090 –1147) 1st Earl of Gloucester: Ranulf de Gernon (1099–1153) 4th Earl of Chester: Maud (Matilda) of Gloucester (d. 1189) Hugh of Cyfeiliog (1147–1181) 5th Earl of Chester: Ranulf de Blondeville (1170–1232) 6th Earl of Chester Earl of Lincoln: Matilda (Maud) (1171–1233)
The Duke of York was killed on 30 December 1460 but, with Warwick's help, his eldest son became King Edward IV in March 1461. In July 1469, Lady Isabel married Clarence, while in July 1470, after the Earl of Warwick's flight to France and change of allegiance, Anne Neville was betrothed to Edward of Westminster , the Lancastrian heir to the ...
George FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, an illegitimate son of king Charles II, was created Duke of Northumberland in the Peerage of England in 1683.He had already been created Baron of Pontefract, Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northumberland in 1674, also in the Peerage of England.
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