Biography of Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont 1643-1683

In 1628 Henry Stanhope and [his mother] Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 19) were married. He the son of Philip Stanhope 1st Earl Chesterfield (age 44) and Catherine Hastings Countess Chesterfield.

Before 09 May 1630 [his father] Jehan Lord of Heenvliet (age 35) and [his mother] Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 21) were married.

On 09 May 1643 Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont was born to Jehan Lord of Heenvliet (age 48) and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 34) at The Hague.

In 1649 Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont (age 5) was created 1st Baron Wotton.

In 1660 [his mother] Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 51) was created 1st Earl Chesterfield.

On 07 Mar 1660 [his father] Jehan Lord of Heenvliet (age 65) died.

In Sep 1660 [his step-father] Daniel O'Neill (age 48) and [his mother] Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 51) were married.

On 09 Apr 1667 [his mother] Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield (age 58) died. Earl Chesterfield extinct. Her son Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont (age 23) inherited Boughton aka Bocton Place, Kent [Map].

Pepy's Diary. 17 Aug 1668. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's, and thence with Mr. Wren (age 39) by appointment in his coach to Hampstead, to speak with the Atturney-general (age 70), whom we met in the fields, by his old route and house; and after a little talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and saw the Lord Wotton's (age 25) house and garden, which is wonderfull fine: too good for the house the gardens are, being, indeed, the most noble that ever I saw, and brave orange and lemon trees.

Evelyn's Diary. 02 Jun 1676. We returned in the evening by Hampstead, to see Lord Wotton's (age 33) house and garden (Bellsize House), built with vast expense by Mr. O'Neale, an Irish gentleman who married Lord Wotton's mother, [his mother] Baroness Stanhope. The furniture is very particular for Indian cabinets, porcelain, and other solid and noble movables. The gallery very fine, the gardens very large, but ill kept, yet woody and chargeable. The soil a cold weeping clay, not answering the expense.

In Sep 1678 John Willoughby 9th Baron Willoughby of Parham (age 9) died. His brother [his future brother-in-law] Charles Willoughby 10th Baron Willoughby of Parham (age 9) succeeded 10th Baron Willoughby Parham.

On 26 Dec 1678 Charles Cockayne 3rd Viscount Cullen (age 20) and [his future sister-in-law] Catherine Willoughby (age 23) were married.

On 25 Aug 1679 Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont (age 36) and Frances Willoughby Countess Bellomont (age 36) were married. She by marriage Baroness Wotton. His paternal grandfather Thomas Wotton 2nd Baron Wotton had been the last of the previous creation of Baron Wotton. He the son of Jehan Lord of Heenvliet and Katherine Wotton Countess Chesterfield.

On 09 Dec 1679 [his brother-in-law] Charles Willoughby 10th Baron Willoughby of Parham (age 10) died. The barony was wrongly considered to have been extinct. In 1680 Thomas Willoughby 11th Baron Willoughby of Parham (age 77) succeeded to the title - see here.

In 1680 Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont (age 36) was created 1st Earl Bellomont. [his wife] Frances Willoughby Countess Bellomont (age 37) by marriage Countess Bellomont.

In 1683 Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont (age 39) died. Earl Bellomont and Baron Wotton extinct. He was buried at Canterbury Cathedral [Map]. He willed Boughton aka Bocton Place, Kent [Map] to his nephew, Charles Stanhope aka Wooton (age 7), son of his half-brother [his half-brother] Philip Stanhope 2nd Earl Chesterfield (age 49).

On 25 May 1714 [his former wife] Frances Willoughby Countess Bellomont (age 71) died in Derby [Map].

Ancestors of Charles Kirkoven 1st Earl Bellomont 1643-1683