Paternal Family Tree: Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Maternal Family Tree: Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis
On 28th November 1722 [his father] Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis [aged 22] and [his mother] Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis were married.
On 31st December 1738 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis [aged 38] and Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis at Grosvenor Square, Belgravia.
In 1753 [his father] Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis [aged 52] was created 1st Earl Cornwallis. [his mother] Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis by marriage Countess Cornwallis.
On 23rd June 1762 [his father] Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis [aged 62] died. His succeeded son Charles [aged 23] succeeded 2nd Earl Cornwallis, 6th Baron Cornwallis.
On 14th July 1768 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 29] and Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis were married. She by marriage Countess Cornwallis. He the son of Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis and Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis.
On 28th June 1769 [his daughter] Mary Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 30] and [his wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis.
On 30th April 1771 [his brother] James Cornwallis 4th Earl Cornwallis [aged 28] and [his sister-in-law] Catherine Mann were married. He the son of [his father] Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis and [his mother] Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis.
On 19th October 1774 [his son] Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis was born to Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 35] and [his wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis. He married 17th April 1795 Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis, daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon and Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon, and had issue.
On 14th April 1779 [his wife] Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis died.
Between 28th September 1781 and 19th October 1781 the 1781 Battle of Yorktown was fought was a decisive victory by a combined force of the American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington [aged 49] and Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, and French Army troops led by Comte de Rochambeau over British Army troops commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis [aged 42].
Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and Charles Gould aka Morgan 2nd Baronet [aged 21] were captured.
This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.
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Around 1782 Thomas Gainsborough [aged 54]. Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 43].
Around 1783 Thomas Gainsborough [aged 55]. Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 44].
On 1st December 1785 [his mother] Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis died.
In 1786 King George III of Great Britain and Ireland [aged 47] created new Garter Knights as follows:
601st Edward Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Kent and Strathearn [aged 18],
602nd Ernest Augustus King Hanover [aged 14],
603rd Prince Augustus Frederick Hanover 1st Duke Sussex [aged 12],
604th Adolphus Hanover 1st Duke Cambridge [aged 11],
605th William Elector of Hesse [aged 42],
606th Henry Somerset 5th Duke Beaufort [aged 41],
607th George Nugent Temple Grenville 1st Marquess Buckingham [aged 32],
608th Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 47].
Around 1792 Arthur William Devis [aged 29]. Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 53].
In 1792 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 53] was created 1st Marquess Cornwallis.
1795 John Singleton Copley [aged 56]. Portrait of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 56].
On 17th April 1795 Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis [aged 20] and Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis [aged 18] were married. She the daughter of Alexander Gordon 4th Duke Gordon [aged 51] and Jane Maxwell Duchess Gordon [aged 47]. He the son of Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 56] and Jemima Tullekin Jones Countess Cornwallis.
On 25th March 1802 the United Kingdom and the French Repulic signed the Treaty of Amiens bringing to an end the War of the Second Coalition. The peace laster for fifteen months only.
The Treaty was signed by:
Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 63], United Kingdom
Joseph Bonaparte [aged 34], French Republic
José Nicolás de Azara, Spain
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Batavian Republic
On 5th October 1805 Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis [aged 66] died at Gauspur, Ghazipur. His succeeded son Charles Cornwallis 2nd Marquess Cornwallis [aged 30] succeeded 2nd Marquess Cornwallis, 3rd Earl Cornwallis, 7th Baron Cornwallis. Louisa Gordon Marchioness Cornwallis [aged 28] by marriage Marchioness Cornwallis.
Kings Wessex: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 18 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 22 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 19 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 17 Grand Son of King William I of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 17 Grand Son of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Cornwallis 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Frederick Cornwallis 1st Baron Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Meautys 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 2nd Baron Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ashburnham
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Ashburnham 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Beaumont 
9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Cornwallis 3rd Baron Cornwallis 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Playstead
GrandFather: Charles Cornwallis 4th Baron Cornwallis 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Fox of Farley Wiltshire 
Great x 2 Grandfather: Stephen Fox
Great x 3 Grandmother: Christian Palfreyman
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Fox Baroness Cornwallis
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Whittle of the City of London
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Whittle
Father: Charles Cornwallis 1st Earl Cornwallis 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Butler 11th Earl Ormonde 4th Earl Ossory 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Butler Viscount Thurles 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helen Butler Countess Ormonde and Ossory 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Butler 1st Duke Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Poyntz 
7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Poyntz 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sydenham 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Butler 1st Earl Arran 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Preston of Whitehill in Midlothian 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Preston Duchess Ormonde 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Butler 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Charlotte Butler Baroness Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle 
11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Ferrers 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Ferrers 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "Lusty" Pakington 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Pakington Countess Chesterfield
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Smith
Great x 1 Grandmother: Dorothy Ferrers Countess Arran 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Carlton 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Dudley Carlton 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Carlton 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Charles Cornwallis 1st Marquess Cornwallis 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Townshend 
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Townshend 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Stanhope Baroness Berkeley 
5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Townshend 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Nathaniel Bacon 
Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Bacon
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Gresham 
Great x 1 Grandfather: Horatio Townshend 1st Viscount Townsend 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Charles Townshend 2nd Viscount Townsend 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Joseph Ashe 1st Baronet
Great x 1 Grandmother: Mary Ashe Viscountess Townshend
Mother: Elizabeth Townshend Countess Cornwallis 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baronet 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 2nd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Walsingham Baroness Pelham Laughton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Pelham 3rd Baronet 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Pelham 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 1st Earl of Leicester 
9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Sidney 2nd Earl of Leicester 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara Gamage Countess Leicester 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Lucy Sidney Baroness Pelham Laughton 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothy Percy Countess Leicester 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland 
7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Elizabeth Pelham Viscountess Townsend 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Jones of Stowey Somerset
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Jones
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Jones