Earl Rochester is in Earldoms of England Alphabetically.
Summary
1652. Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester [aged 39] created.
19th February 1658. Son John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester [aged 10] succeeded.
26th July 1680. Son Charles Wilmot 3rd Earl Rochester [aged 9] succeeded.
1681. Charles Wilmot 3rd Earl Rochester extinct.
In 1652 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester [aged 39] was created 1st Earl Rochester. Anne St John Countess Rochester [aged 37] by marriage Countess Rochester.
On 19th February 1658 Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester [aged 45] died at Sluys [Map]. He was buried in Bruges [Map]. After the Restoration his remains were reburied in All Saints Church, Spelsbury [Map]. His succeeded son John [aged 10] succeeded 2nd Earl Rochester, 2nd Viscount Wilmot.
On 29th January 1667 John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester [aged 19] and Elizabeth Malet Countess Rochester [aged 16] were married at Knightsbridge Chapel. She by marriage Countess Rochester. They having eloped and married against her families wishes. Two years previously he had abducted her for which he spent three weeks in prison. Her father being dead it isn't clear whose ward she was. He the son of Henry Wilmot 1st Earl Rochester and Anne St John Countess Rochester [aged 52].
On 26th July 1680 John Wilmot 2nd Earl Rochester [aged 33] died. His succeeded son Charles Wilmot 3rd Earl Rochester [aged 9] succeeded 3rd Earl Rochester, 3rd Viscount Wilmot.
In 1681 Charles Wilmot 3rd Earl Rochester [aged 10] died. Earl Rochester, Viscount Wilmot extinct.
Summary
29th November 1682. Lawrence Hyde 1st Earl Rochester [aged 40] created.
2nd May 1711. Son Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Rochester 4th Earl Clarendon [aged 38] succeeded.
10th December 1753. Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Rochester 4th Earl Clarendon extinct.
Samuel Pepys' Diary. 19th November 1667. Thence with W. Hewer [aged 25] and our messenger, Marlow, home by coach, and so late at letters, and then home to supper, and my wife to read and then to bed. This night I wrote to my father, in answer to a new match which is proposed (the executor of Ensum, my sister's former servant) for my sister [aged 26], that I will continue my mind of giving her £500, if he likes of the match. My father did also this week, by Shepley, return me up a 'Guinny, which, it seems, upon searching the ground, they have found since I was there. I was told this day that Lory Hide [aged 25]1, second son of my Chancellor [aged 58], did some time since in the House say, that if he thought his father was guilty but of one of the things then said against him, he would be the first that should call for judgement against him: which Mr. Waller [aged 61], the poet, did say was spoke like the old Roman, like Brutus, for its greatness and worthiness.
Note 1. Laurence Hyde, second son of Chancellor Clarendon (1614-1711). He held many important offices, and was First Lord of the Treasury, 1679-84; created Earl of Rochester in 1681, and K.G. 1685.
On 29th November 1682 Lawrence Hyde 1st Earl Rochester [aged 40] was created 1st Earl Rochester. Henrietta Boyle Countess Rochester [aged 36] by marriage Countess Rochester.
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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John Evelyn's Diary. 7th December 1682. Went to congratulate Lord Hyde [aged 40] (the great favorite) newly made Earl of Rochester, and lately marrying his Anne Hyde to the Earl of Ossory [aged 17].
On 2nd May 1711 Lawrence Hyde 1st Earl Rochester [aged 69] died. His succeeded son Henry [aged 38] succeeded 2nd Earl Rochester. Jane Leveson-Gower Countess Rochester and Clarendon by marriage Countess Rochester.
On 10th December 1753 Henry Hyde 2nd Earl Rochester 4th Earl Clarendon [aged 81] died without male issue. Earl Rochester and Earl Clarendon extinct.