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Paternal Family Tree: Hervey
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Before 1753 [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol (age 22) and [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol (age 19) were married. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
In 1758 Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire was born to Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol (age 27) and Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol (age 25).
On 7th June 1774 [her future husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 26) and Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire (age 17) were married in St Mary's Church, Wimbledon. It was her 17th birthday. She by marriage Duchess Devonshire. She the daughter of John Spencer 1st Earl Spencer (age 39) and Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer (age 37). He the son of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington. They were fourth cousins.
1786 Angelica Kauffmann (age 44). Portrait of Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 28).
On 26th May 1788 [her illegitimate son] Augustus Clifford 1st Baronet was born illegitimately to [her future husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 40) and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 30). He was illegitmate at the time of his birth. His parents subsequently married.
On 19th December 1800 [her mother] Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol (age 67) died.
On 8th July 1803 [her father] Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol (age 72) died in Lazio. His son [her brother] Frederick (age 33) succeeded 5th Earl Bristol, 6th Baron Hervey of Ickworth in Suffolk. H3NG0wbdHis great grandson Charles (age 4) succeeded 6th Baron Howard de Walden.
On 30th March 1806 Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire (age 48) died at Devonshire House [Map]. She was buried at Derby Cathedral [Map]. Her husband [her future husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 58), her mother Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer (age 68), her sister Henrietta Frances Spencer Countess Bessborough (age 44) and her eight months pregnant daughter [her future step-daughter] Georgiana Cavendish Countess Carlisle (age 22) were present, as was Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 48), her husband's mistress and future wife.
In 1809 William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 61) and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 51) were married. She by marriage Duchess Devonshire. She the daughter of Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol and Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol. He the son of William Cavendish 4th Duke Devonshire and Charlotte Elizabeth Boyle Marchioness Hartington. They were sixth cousins.
On 17th May 1809 [her son-in-law] George Lamb (age 24) and [her illegitimate daughter] Caroline St Jules were married. She the illegitmate daughter of [her husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 61) and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 51).
On 24th December 1809 Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Earl Granville (age 36) and [her step-daughter] Harriet Cavendish Countess Granville (age 24) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 61) and Georgiana Spencer Duchess Devonshire. He the son of Granville Leveson-Gower 1st Marquess Stafford and Susanna Stewart Marchioness Stafford. They were half fourth cousin once removed.
Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville. To the [her step-son] Marquis of Hartington (age 19). London. April 12, 1810.
Dearest Hartington, — You must think me a brute for having been so long without writing to you, but I have been for some time the idlest of human beings. We keep terrible late hours, and I do nothing from morning till night but think what an angel my husband is, which is more pleasant than profitable. Your absence furnishes me with conversation wherever I go. I really cannot explain your leaving London just now, your thinking Bath the best place for mathematics or Doctor Randolph's attractions. Poor worn-out Lady Warwick rien peut plus with it, but with a tremulous voice, like cowards just before they dip into the sea, follows me about — 'Where is he gone, my dear Lady Harriet, what can he be gone about?' There are shoals of Miss Mildmays, and the good-natured Dowager quite like a hen. Sir Henry and his wife go about in attitudes, but they match so well and look so handsome that one forgives them for it.
You will have seen in the papers all that has been going on about Sir Francis Burdett (age 40). London is quiet and dull again. The mob entirely dispersed and nothing but soldiers to be seen. These riots have been very animating to different people in different ways. Lord Carlisle (age 61)1 - got well pelted with mud and dirt. Think of the nose of nice nobility. Little 02. was obliged to explain his politics to the mob, who were going to swallow him, I believe. He is so factious that if he was not so small and inarticulate he might some day or other get into mischief. As it is he is never heard and scarcely seen. So passe, passe, petit bonhomme, very harmless and very ridiculous.
We all go to Court the day after to-morrow. Lady Stafford (age 44)3 presents me, [her sister] Lady Liverpool (age 43) the Duchess (age 52)4.
Note 1. He married Lady Caroline Leveson Gower, a daughter of the first Marquis of Stafford and half-sister to Lord Granville (age 36). He was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1780 to 1782. He wrote indifferent poetry, and was sneered at in English Bards amd Scotch Beviewers by his relative and ward, Lord Byron (age 22).
Note 2. Lord Ossulston (age 33), who succeeded his father, Lord Tankerville (age 66), in 1822,. He married in 1806 Mlle. Corisande de Gramont (age 27), of whom there is frequent mention in these letters.
Note 3. Countess of Sutherland, married in 1785 to the second Marquis of Stafford (age 52), half-brother to Lord Granville. He was Ambassador in Paris from 1790 to 1792. She did what she could for Marie Antoinette when in prison.
Note 4. Elizabeth.Duchess of Devonshire.
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On 29th July 1811 [her husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire (age 63) died. His son [her step-son] William (age 21) succeeded 6th Duke Devonshire, 9th Earl Devonshire, 9th Baron Cavendish Hardwick, 8th Baron Clifford.
On 20th October 1813 [her illegitimate son] Augustus Clifford 1st Baronet (age 25) and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Frances Townshend (age 24) were married. He the illegitmate son of [her former husband] William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 55). They were fifth cousins.
In 1824 Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire (age 66) 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.
[her illegitimate daughter] Caroline St Jules was born illegitimately to William Cavendish 5th Duke Devonshire and Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire. She was illegitmate at the time of his birth. His parents subsequently married.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 22 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Hervey
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Hervey
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Jermyn
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Jermyn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Judith Blagge
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Hervey 1st Earl Bristol
GrandFather: John Hervey 2nd Baron Hervey 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Felton 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Felton 2nd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Gawdy
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Felton 4th Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Lionel Tollemache 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susanna Tollemache Lady Felton 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stanhope Lady Talmash 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Felton Countess Bristol 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Theophilus Howard 2nd Earl Suffolk 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Howard 3rd Earl Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Home Countess Suffolk 15 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Lady Felton 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Villiers
Great x 3 Grandmother: Barbara Villiers Countess Suffolk 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara St John 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: Frederick Augustus Hervey 4th Earl Bristol 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Nicholas Wedig Lepell
GrandMother: Mary Lepell Baroness Hervey
Elizabeth Christiana Hervey Duchess Devonshire 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Robert Davers 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Davers 2nd Baronet
GrandFather: Jermyn Davers 4th Baronet
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Jermyn
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Jermyn
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Killigrew
Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Jermyn 2nd Baron Jermyn
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Jermyn Lady Davers
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Merry
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Merry Baroness Jermyn
Mother: Elizabeth Davers Countess Bristol
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Green
GrandMother: Margaretta Green