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Vor 4 Tagen · Barbara Villiers (1641–1709) was the daughter of William, Viscount Grandison. She married Roger Palmer in 1659 and shortly afterwards became the mistress of Charles II. On her husband's elevation to the peerage she became Countess of Castlemaine, and she was created Duchess of Cleveland in
Vor 6 Tagen · This was the heyday of Golden Square as a political and social centre. Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, lived at No. 7. James Brydges, the future Duke of Chandos, but in 1707 Paymaster of the Forces, lived at No. 20 and had his office at No. 19A. Next to him lived Henry St. John, later Viscount Bolingbroke, the leading Tory ...
17. Mai 2024 · Father. Charles II of England. Mother. Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland. Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield (5 September 1664 – 17 February 1718), formerly Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England by one of his best known mistresses, Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of Cleveland.
Vor 2 Tagen · In 1670, Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, was made Countess of Southampton and her son, Charles (by Charles II), was first Earl, and then (in 1675), Duke of Southampton. In 1710 he took the title of Duke of Cleveland and died in 1730. The title was revived, as noted above, in 1780, when Charles Fitzroy, son of Lord Augustus ...
Vor 3 Tagen · By Barbara Villiers (1641–1709), wife of Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, and created Duchess of Cleveland in her own right: Lady Anne Palmer (Fitzroy) (1661–1722), married Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex. She may have been the daughter of Roger Palmer, but Charles accepted her.
10. Mai 2024 · As a favourite of royal mistress Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, he courted the Earl of Bristol's daughter, whose family were in favour at court. The daughter married Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, a Secretary of State, but he lobbied the king on Oxford's behalf.
18. Mai 2024 · The best, but most licentious, of his comedies is Bellamira: or, The Mistress (1687), an imitation of the Eunuchus of Terence, in which the heroine is supposed to represent Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, the mistress of Charles II.
