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The Marquess of Pembroke. The then extinct title of Earl of Pembroke had been very significant for the House of Tudor. It was held by Henry VIII's grand-uncle, Jasper Tudor, and it referred to the birthplace of King Henry VII. Henry VIII decided to raise his lover to the dignity of a marquess prior to finally marrying her.
The Marquess of Lansdowne: 1784 Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess of Lansdowne: Great Britain Simon Petty-FitzMaurice, Earl of Kerry: 7 The Marquess Townshend: 1787 Charles Townshend, 8th Marquess Townshend: Great Britain Thomas Townshend, Viscount Raynham: 8 The Marquess of Salisbury: 1789 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury ...
The marquessate was apparently erroneously gazetted as Marquess of the Isle of Wight [5] although Marquess of the Isle of Ely was the intended title. In later editions of The London Gazette the Duke is referred to as the Marquess of the Isle of Ely. [6] [7] Marquess of Berkhampstead [5] 27 July 1726: Guelph Extinct 31 October 1765
The genuine marquess as a peer, however, is always "The Most Honourable The Marquess of [X]", to differentiate a marquess by courtesy (i.e., the heir to a dukedom) from a marquess in his own right. The spelling of the title in a few older Scottish cases is "Marquis", particularly when the title was created prior to the formation of the Kingdom ...
Earl of Pembroke is a title in the Peerage of England that was first created in the 12th century by King Stephen of England. The title, which is associated with Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in West Wales , has been recreated ten times from its original inception.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
The ranks of the peerage are duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. [7]The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1874, and the last marquessate was created in 1936. . Creation of the remaining ranks, except baronies for life, mostly ceased once Harold Wilson's Labour government took office in 1964, and only thirteen (nine non-royal and four royal) people have been created hereditary peers sinc
also Earl of Pembroke 1468–1479 also Earl of Worcester 1526-1984 also Marquess of Worcester 1642–1984 also Duke of Beaufort 1682–1984 Abeyant 1984–2002 Baron Lumley: 1461: Lumley: forfeit 1545: Baron Ogle: 1461: Ogle, Cavendish: abeyant 1691: 9th baron had been created Viscount Mansfield, 1620 and Earl of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1628.