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  2. Alnwick Castle - Wikipedia

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    Alnwick Castle (/ ˈ æ n ɪ k / ⓘ) is a castle and country house in Alnwick in the English county of Northumberland. It is the seat of the 12th Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed building [1] now the home of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of ...

  3. Duke of Northumberland - Wikipedia

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    George FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, an illegitimate son of king Charles II, was created Duke of Northumberland in the Peerage of England in 1683.He had already been created Baron of Pontefract, Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northumberland in 1674, also in the Peerage of England.

  4. List of family seats of English nobility - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Rutland: Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire: Duke of Manchester: Kimbolton Castle, Tandragee Castle: Duke of Northumberland: Alnwick Castle, Northumberland and Syon House, London: Warkworth Castle, Prudhoe Castle, Kielder Castle, Northumberland House, Stanwick Park, Albury Park: Duke of Wellington

  5. Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland - Wikipedia

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    Hansard records no contributions to House of Lords work by Northumberland. [4] The Duke assists in managing Northumberland Estates (the corporation holding the ducal assets) which has many venture subsidiaries and associated trusts, which altogether own land and property in Northumberland, Scotland and to a lesser extent London, Surrey and ...

  6. List of family seats of Scottish nobility - Wikipedia

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    Duke of Argyll: Inveraray Castle, Argyll: Rosneath Castle, Argyll Duke of Atholl: Blair Castle, Perth and Kinross: Dunkeld House, Perth and Kinross Duke of Montrose: Auchmar, Stirling: Buchanan Castle, Stirling Duke of Roxburghe: Floors Castle, Scottish Borders: Duke of Sutherland: Mertoun House, Scottish Borders

  7. Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland - Wikipedia

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    Isobel Jane Miller Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, DCVO (née Richard; born 11 May 1958), is a British aristocrat and businesswoman. She served as Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland from 2009 to 2024, and is best known for redeveloping the Alnwick Garden at Alnwick Castle. She was the first woman to serve as Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland.

  8. List of dukes in the peerages of Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Percy family - Wikipedia

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    Arms of Percy ancient: Azure, five fusils conjoined in fesse or [1] These arms are still quartered by the Dukes of Northumberland, but were superseded c. 1300 by the adoption by Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy (d.1314) of the arms Or, a lion rampant azure, the source for which is variously given as the "Lion of Brabant", [2] the extinct arms of Redvers, Earls of Devon, [3] or the Lion of ...