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 was born to [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 29).

In 1628 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 42) was created 1st Baron Goring at which time he ceased to be MP Lewes.

Before 4th May 1631 [his brother-in-law] William Brereton 2nd Baron Brereton (age 20) and [his half-sister] Elizabeth Goring Baroness Brereton were married. She the daughter of [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 46) and [his step-mother] Mary Neville (age 41). They were half fourth cousins.

On 1st October 1631 William Brereton 1st Baron Brereton (age 81) died. His grandson [his brother-in-law] William (age 20) succeeded 2nd Baron Brereton and inherited Brereton Hall, Cheshire [Map]. [his half-sister] Elizabeth Goring Baroness Brereton by marriage Baroness Brereton.

In 1639 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 53) was appointed Privy Council.

In November 1644 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich (age 59) was created 1st Earl Norwich by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 14) for his support during the Civil War. The last Earl Norwich of the previous creation was his uncle Edward Denny 1st Earl Norwich brother of his mother [his grandmother] Anne Denny (age 77).

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

After 1658 and before 7th January 1659 Charles Goring 2nd (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 (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.