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By 1572, this class of peerage was extinct, and there were no dukes in the last 30 years of her reign. The extant dukedoms in the Peerage of England were all created (or restored, in the cases of Norfolk and Somerset) in the Stuart period, beginning with James I's re-creation of the dukedom of Buckingham in 1623 for George Villiers.
In the Peerage of England, the title of duke was created 74 times (using 40 different titles: the rest were recreations).Three times a woman was created a duchess in her own right; Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, chief mistress of Charles II of England, Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wife of Charles II's eldest illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, and Cecilia Underwood ...
Dukedom of Gloucester (2nd creation) extinct, 1447: Dukedom of Albemarle (Aumale) (1st creation) forfeit, 1399: Duke of York (1st creation) restored, 1425 Duke of Cornwall (3rd creation), 1460: James I 1394–1437: Joan Beaufort c. 1404 –1445: John Beaufort 1404–1444: Richard Neville 1400–1460: Cecily Neville 1415–1495: Richard of York ...
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain. There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total.
The current royal dukedoms are, in order of precedence of their holders (that is, not in order of precedence of the dukedoms themselves): Duke of Cornwall ( England ), Duke of Rothesay ( Scotland ), Duke of Cambridge ( United Kingdom ) (currently all one person) held by William, Prince of Wales [ 1 ] (elder son of King Charles III)
The history of the British peerage, a system of nobility found in the United Kingdom, stretches over the last thousand years. The current form of the British peerage has been a process of development. While the ranks of baron and earl predate the British peerage itself, the ranks of duke and marquess were introduced to England in the
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom—2022 marks 70 years since her ascension to the throne. Next in line on the royal family tree is Prince Charles, her son ...
Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.