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On 3rd July 1773 [his father] Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy (age 28) and [his mother] Elizabeth Montgomery (age 22) were married.
In 1782 Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington was born to Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy (age 36) and Elizabeth Montgomery (age 31).
In 1783 [his mother] Elizabeth Montgomery (age 32) died.
On 20th October 1793 [his father] Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy (age 48) and Margaret Wallis (age 23) were married. The difference in their ages was 24 years.
On 30th September 1795 [his father] Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy (age 50) was created 1st Viscount Mountjoy. Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington (age 13) succeeded 2nd Viscount Mountjoy, 2nd Baron Mountjoy.
On 5th June 1798 the Battle of New Ross was fought at New Ross between the Irish Republican insurgents called the United Irishmen and British Crown forces composed of regular soldiers, militia and yeomanry. The attack on the town of New Ross on the River Barrow, was an attempt by the recently victorious rebels to break out of county Wexford across the river Barrow and to spread the rebellion into county Kilkenny and the outlying province of Munster.
[his father] Luke Gardiner 1st Viscount Mountjoy (age 53) was killed.
In 1816 Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington (age 34) was created 1st Earl Blessington.
On 16th February 1818 Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington (age 36) and Marguerite Power Countess of Blessington (age 28) were married at St Mary's Church, Bryanston Square, Marylebone some four months after her first husband's death. She by marriage Countess Blessington.
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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.
On 25th May 1829 Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington (age 47) died of apoplexy without issue. Earl Blessington, Viscount Mountjoy, Baron Mountjoy extinct.
On 4th June 1849 [his former wife] Marguerite Power Countess of Blessington (age 59) died.
[his daughter] Harriet Gardiner was born to Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington and Marguerite Power Countess of Blessington.
Adeline Horsey Recollections. I remember meeting [his daughter] Lady Harriet Cowper, who first married Count d'Orsay when she was only fifteen years of age. The marriage was arranged by her stepmother, the famous Lady Blessington, who forced Lady Harriett to marry the man who was popularly supposed to be her own lover. Old Lord Blessington made a very liberal marriage settlement on his only daughter, but it really benefited the Count, and not his child bride. Their union was most disastrous and was almost immediately followed by a separation.
After Count d'Orsay's death his widow married Mr. Cowper, who owned Sandringham. She had one daughter by him, and her second matrimonial venture was a happy one. Lady Harriett was a most kind-hearted woman, and among her most charitable actions she endowed a home for twelve young working girls who needed rest and change.
Great x 1 Grandfather: Luke Gardiner
GrandFather: Charles Gardiner
Charles John Gardiner 1st Earl Blessington
GrandFather: William Montgomery 1st Baronet
Mother: Elizabeth Montgomery
GrandMother: Hannah Tomkyns