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Paternal Family Tree: Montagu
Maternal Family Tree: María González Henestrosa Lady Villagera 1356
In or before 1649 [his father] George Montagu (age 26) and [his mother] Elizabeth Irby were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester and [his grandmother] Margaret Crouch Countess Manchester (age 43).
On 27th June 1655 Robert Montagu 3rd Earl Manchester (age 21) and [his future wife] Anne Yelverton Countess Manchester (age 25) were married at St Giles' in the Fields Church [Map]. He the son of [his uncle] Edward Montagu 2nd Earl Manchester (age 53) and Anne Rich Viscountess Mandeville.
On 16th April 1661 Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax was born to George Montagu (age 38) and Elizabeth Irby at Horton, Northamptonshire.
On 19th July 1681 [his father] George Montagu (age 58) died.
After 14th March 1683 Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 21) and Anne Yelverton Countess Manchester (age 52) were married. She the widow of his cousin Robert Montagu 3rd Earl Manchester (deceased). The difference in their ages was 30 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
On 19th February 1690 [his step-son] Charles Montagu 1st Duke Manchester (age 28) and Doddington Greville Duchess Manchester (age 17) were married. She by marriage Countess Manchester. He the son of Robert Montagu 3rd Earl Manchester and [his wife] Anne Yelverton Countess Manchester (age 59).
In 1698 [his step-son] Heneage Montagu (age 23) died.
On 21st July 1698 [his wife] Anne Yelverton Countess Manchester (age 68) died.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1700 Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 38) was created 1st Baron Halifax with special remainder to his nephew George Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 16).
In 1710. John James Baker. Known as "Whig Junto". From www.tate.org ... This is a portrait of a political group named the Whig Junto and a Black servant, whose identity is unknown. It is the only known portrait of the Junto, which was an ideologically close-knit group of political peers who formed the leadership of the Whig party in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The members of the group are shown gathered together on a grand terrace, while a vista onto a garden is revealed by the Black servant, who holds back a heavy velvet curtain. The grand architectural setting is imagined, and is deliberately evocative of power and status. The picture was commissioned by Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (age 57), who stands on the right, as if welcoming the company. It is not known if Orford had a Black servant in his household or whether the individual was included to emphasise Orford's wealth and social standing. At the time, Britain was profiting heavily from the trade of enslaved people from West Africa. The presence of Black servants, many of whom were enslaved, in both aristocratic and merchant households had come to symbolise property and wealth. This reflected the dehumanising view of enslaved Black people held by the British elite.
The scene conjures one of the Junto's country house meetings where, in between parliamentary sessions, policy and party strategy were formulated. From left to right the sitters round the table can be identified as Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (age 34); Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton (age 61); John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (1C 1697) (age 58); Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (age 48); and William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (age 38). The lavish surroundings probably represent Orford's house, Chippenham, where Junto meetings sometimes took place. It was also ideally located for the nearby Newmarket horse races, which the members of the Junto frequently attended when parliament was not sitting.
The portrait is dated 1710, before the crushing electoral defeat of the Whigs in October of that year. It shows the political allies while in power, when Sunderland was Secretary of State, Wharton Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Somers Lord President of the Privy Council, Devonshire Lord Steward and a member of the Privy Council, and Orford First Lord of the Admiralty. On the surface the portrait shows a relaxed gathering of fellow connoisseurs, seated round a table consulting antique medals and books of prints. Fittingly, Somers and Halifax sit at the centre of the company, holding a book and handling a medal respectively. Both were known collectors and antiquarians - Somers was one of the founders of the Whig Kit-Cat Club, a convivial drinking and dining club, but which also had a political propagandist agenda; he had also purchased the Resta collection of drawings from Italy in 1709. Halifax had a celebrated library and a collection of antique medals (sold in 1740), to which those being consulted presumably allude. Behind this exterior of cultural appreciation, however, the portrait advertises Whig policy in 1709-10, which supported the continuation of war against France in opposition to Tory calls for peace. The two visible prints are friezes from Trajan's column showing episodes from the Dacian wars, with the Roman army crossing the Danube. The viewer is invited to make parallels between the valour and victories of the Roman emperors and the current military greatness achieved for Britain by the Duke of Marlborough's campaigns. The globe, showing the Pacific, presumably alludes to Whig foreign policy ambitions beyond Europe. By defeating France in Europe, they aimed to gain commercial access to Spanish American trade routes. It reflects the competitive European colonial pursuit of new markets, including the selling of enslaved West African people to Spanish territories overseas.
John James Baker (or Backer, or Bakker) is thought to have been Flemish, from Antwerp. He was Godfrey Kneller's (age 63) (1646-1723) long-time studio assistant and drapery painter, and this is his largest, most ambitious and complex work. The symbolic programme was presumably devised by Orford in discussion with Baker. The Duke of Devonshire was not a regular member of the Junto, although an increasingly important Whig peer, but his inclusion here is presumably because of his kinship relationship with Orford. The picture is thus a demonstration of Orford's private as well as professional networks, and also his pride and ambition. It would have been displayed at Chippenham in the newly appointed, fashionable interiors, alongside other works that Orford commissioned to advertise his public achievement and the private and professional networks that sustained his power and influence.
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In 1714 Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 52) was appointed 528th Knight of the Garter by King George I (age 53).
In 1714. Michael Dahl (age 55). Portrait of Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 52).
On 1st August 1714 Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 53) was created 1st Earl Halifax.
On 19th May 1715 Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax (age 54) died. Earl Halifax extinct. His nephew George (age 31) succeeded 2nd Baron Halifax.
Kings Wessex: Great x 18 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 15 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 21 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 16 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 10 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 12 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 23 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ladde Montagu 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Montagu 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Dudley
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Dudley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Montagu 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Roper
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Roper of Well Hall
Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Roper
GrandFather: Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Harrington
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Alexander Harrington
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Harrington
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Moton of Peckleton in Leicestershire
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Moton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Harrington
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nicholas Sidney
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Sidney
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Brandon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Pakenham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Pakenham
Father: George Montagu 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Crouch of Corneyborough
GrandMother: Margaret Crouch Countess Manchester
Charles Montagu 1st Earl Halifax 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Irby
GrandFather: Anthony Irby 12 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Peyton of Isleham in Cambridgeshire 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Peyton of Isleham in Cambridgeshire 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Frances Haselden 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Peyton 1st Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Rich
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Peyton 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edward Osborne
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Osborne
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hewett
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Hewett
Mother: Elizabeth Irby 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Wray
Great x 2 Grandfather: Christopher Wray
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Jackson
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Jackson
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Wray 1st Baronet
Great x 3 Grandfather: Nicholas Girlington
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Girlington
GrandMother: Frances Wray 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Drury 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Drury 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sothill
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Drury 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Rich 1st Baron Rich
Great x 3 Grandmother: Audrey Rich
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jenks Baroness Rich
Great x 1 Grandmother: Frances Drury Lady Glentworth 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 13 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Stafford 14 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Fogge
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stafford 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Stafford 1st Baron Stafford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Stafford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Ursula Pole 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England