Biography of Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath 1661-1701

Paternal Family Tree: Grenville

Maternal Family Tree: Jane Wyche

In October 1652 [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 24] and [his mother] Jane Wyche were married.

On 31st August 1661 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath was born to John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 33] and Jane Wyche.

On 22nd May 1678 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath [aged 16] and Martha Osborne [aged 14] were married. She the daughter of Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 46] and Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 49]. He the son of John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 49] and Jane Wyche.

On 19th September 1678 Charles "Don Carlo" Fitzcharles 1st Earl Plymouth [aged 21] and [his sister-in-law] Bridget Osborne Countess Plymouth were married in Wimbledon, Surrey. She by marriage Countess Plymouth. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 46] and [his mother-in-law] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 49]. He the illegitmate son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 48] and Catherine Pegge [aged 43].

On 25th April 1682 [his brother-in-law] Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds [aged 23] and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds [aged 20] were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds [aged 50] and [his mother-in-law] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds [aged 53].

John Evelyn's Diary. 18th December 1684. I went with Lord Cornwallis [aged 28] to see the young gallants do their exercise, Mr. Faubert having newly rail'd in a manage, and fitted it for the academy. There were the Dukes of Norfolk [aged 29] and Northumberland [aged 18], Lord Newburgh, and a nephew of (Duras) Earle of Feversham [aged 43]. The exercises were, 1. running at the ring; 2. flinging a javelin at a Moor's head; 3. discharging a pistol at a mark; lastly, taking up a gauntlet with the point of a sword; all these perform'd in full speede. The D. of Northumberland hardly miss'd of succeeding in every one, a dozen times, as I think. The D. of Norfolk did exceeding bravely. Lords Newburgh and Duras seem'd nothing so dextrous. Here I saw the difference of what ye French call "belle homme a cheval", and "bon homme a cheval;" the Duke of Norfolk being the first, that is, rather a fine person on a horse, the Duke of Northumberland being both in perfection, namely, a graceful person and excellent rider. But the Duke of Norfolk told me he had not ben at this exercise these 12 yeares before. There were in the field ye Prince of Denmark [aged 31], and the Lord Landsdown [aged 23], sonn of ye [his father] Earle of Bath [aged 56], who had ben made a Count of ye Empire last Summer for his service before Vienna.

In 1689 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath [aged 27] by writ of acceleration 2nd Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford

On 11th September 1689 [his wife] Martha Osborne [aged 25] died. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

Before 22nd April 1690 [his brother-in-law] George Carteret 1st Baron Carteret [aged 22] and [his sister] Jane Granville Baroness Gower [aged 35] were married. She by marriage Baroness Carteret of Hawnes. She the daughter of [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 61] and [his mother] Jane Wyche.

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On 10th March 1691 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath [aged 29] and Isabella van Nassau [aged 23] were married. He the son of John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 62] and Jane Wyche.

On 30th January 1692 [his son] William Henry Granville 3rd Earl of Bath was born to Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath [aged 30] and [his wife] Isabella van Nassau [aged 24]. His mother died in childbirth; she and her husband had been married less than a year. He didn't marry again.

John Evelyn's Diary. 18th June 1696. The famous trial between my [his father] Lord Bath [aged 67] and Lord Montague [aged 57] for an estate of £11,000 a year, left by the Duke of Albemarle, wherein on several trials had been spent £20,000 between them. The Earl of Bath [aged 34] was cast on evident forgery.

On 22nd August 1701 [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath [aged 72] died. His son Charles [aged 39] succeeded 2nd Earl Bath; he shot himself a month later.

John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd September 1701. Died the Earl of Bath [deceased], whose contest with Lord Montague [aged 40] about the Duke of Albemarle's estate, claiming under a will supposed to have been forged, is said to have been worth £10,000 to the lawyers. His eldest son shot himself a few days after his father's death; for what cause is not clear. He was a most hopeful young man, and had behaved so bravely against the Turks at the siege of Vienna, that the Emperor made him a Count of the Empire. It was falsely reported that Sir Edward Seymour [aged 68] was dead, a great man; he had often been Speaker, Treasurer of the Navy, and in many other lucrative offices. He was of a hasty spirit, not at all sincere, but head of the party at any time prevailing in Parliament.

On 4th September 1701 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath [aged 40] shot himself; he was found dead in a chair in his bedroom, wounded in the head, with two pistols, one of which had been fired. His son William [aged 9] succeeded 3rd Earl Bath, 3rd Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford.

On 22nd September 1701 father and son, John Granville 1st Earl Bath [deceased] and Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath [deceased] were buried at St James the Great Church, Kilkhampton [Map].