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Há 5 dias · The Sackville family, one of England‘s most prominent aristocratic dynasties, would go on to shape Knole‘s legacy for generations to come. Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, transformed the estate into a symbol of his family‘s immense wealth and status, hosting lavish gatherings attended by monarchs like James I.
Há 1 dia · Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 7th Earl of Dorset: 1688–1765 1714 Later Duke of Dorset 528 Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax: 1661–1715 1714 First Lord of the Treasury 529 Prince Frederick Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg: 1707–1751 1717 Later Prince of Wales 530 Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick-Lüneburg: 1674–1728 1717
Há 2 dias · His daughter Winifred married Sir Richard Sackville, by whom she was mother of Thomas Sackville, created Earl of Dorset (Lord High Treasurer and joint author of the first English tragedy, Gorboduc). After Sackville's death she married the old Marquess of Winchester (Lord High Treasurer to three sovereigns), whose first wife had been the daughter of Sir William Capel (Mayor 1503–4, 1510).
Há 2 dias · Funeral of John Sackville esquire. Of Chiddingleigh, Sussex, M.P. for Greenwich; he married Margaret Boleyne, a great-aunt of queen Elizabeth, and was grandfather of the first earl of Dorset. He was buried at Withyham in the same county. See his will printed by Collins, Peerage 1779, vol. ii. p. 155. P. 154. Funeral of mistress Mildmay.
Há 5 dias · Noble Families Extinct. Holland, Duke of Exeter. — John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, (third son of Thomas de Holland, Earl of Kent, by the heiress of Edmund de Woodstock, Earl of Kent,) was created Duke of Exeter, in 1388. He had two seats in this county, Exeter castle, and Dartington. The title was forfeited by his attainder, in 1399; but ...
Há 1 dia · Lady Jane's great-uncle King Henry VIII had resolved all of his problems a few years earlier by divorcing his first wife Catherine of Aragon, who had given him only a daughter, and then beheaded his second wife Anne Boleyn on trumped-up adultery charges. (See my post We Three Queens.)She also had given him only a daughter.
Há 1 dia · The eldest son of the fourth Marquess, Paget was born to his father’s second wife, Blanche Mary Boyd in 1875 – but was touched by scandal even in his earliest days, as rumours persisted that his biological father was actually the French actor, Benoît-Constant Coquelin.
