Biography of Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich 1615-1671

Before 1608 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 22) and [his step-mother] Mary Neville (age 17) were married. They were sixth cousins.

Around 1615 Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich was born to George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 29).

Before 1658 Thomas Baker and [his future wife] Alice Leman Countess Norwich were married.

After 1658 and before 7th January 1659 Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich (age 43) and Alice Leman Countess Norwich were married. The earlier date based on the death of her first husband. He the son of George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 72).

On 6th January 1663 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 77) died. His son Charles (age 48) succeeded 2nd Earl Norwich, 2nd Baron Goring. [his wife] Alice Leman Countess Norwich by marriage Countess Norwich.

John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd September 1669. I was this day very ill of a pain in my limbs, which continued most of this week, and was increased by a visit I made to my old acquaintance, the Earl of Norwich (age 54), at his house in Epping Forest, Essex, where are many good pictures put into the wainscot of the rooms, which Mr. Baker, his Lordship's predecessor there, brought out of Spain; especially the History of Joseph, a picture of the pious and learned Picus Mirandula, and an incomparable one of old Breugel. The gardens were well understood, I mean the potager. I returned late in the evening, ferrying over the water at Greenwich, Kent [Map].

On 3rd March 1671 Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich (age 56) died without issue. Earl Norwich and Baron Goring extinct.

Around 20th July 1680 [his former wife] Alice Leman Countess Norwich died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 16th March 1683. I dined at Mr. Houblon's (age 53), a rich and gentle French merchant, who was building a house in the Forest, near Sir J. Child's (age 52), in a place where the late Earl of Norwich dwelt some time, and which came from his [his former wife] lady, the widow of Mr. Baker. It will be a pretty villa, about five miles from Whitechapel.