  thumb|charles montagu, 1st duke of manchester.painter: sir godfrey kneller  duke of manchester is a title in the peerage of great britain. it was created in 1719 for the politician charles montagu, 4th earl of manchester. == origin == the royal and ducal house of montagu is descended from drogo de montaigu, who was a companion of william, duke of normandy alias william the conqueror. montaigu participated in the norman conquest of england in 1066, which subsequently would remove the native ruling class, replacing it with a foreign, normans aristocracy, to which the montagus themselves belonged. in 1333 william i de montacute became sovereign king of mann, establishing the royal house of montagu. the judge sir edward montagu's (c. 1485â1557) grandson, sir henry montagu (c. 1563â1642), who served as lord chief justice of the king's bench as well as lord high treasurer of england and lord privy seal, was in 1620 raised to the peerage of england as baron montagu of kimbolton, of kimbolton in the county of huntingdon, and as viscount mandeville. in 1626 he was further honoured when he was created earl of manchester, also this in the peerage of england. his son, the 2nd earl, was a prominent parliamentary general during the civil war, but later supported the restoration of charles ii. his son, the 3rd earl, represented huntingdonshire in the house of commons. his son was the 4th earl, who in 1719 was created duke of manchester. the "manchester" title is said to be based, not on the city of manchester, but on the small town of godmanchester, then in huntingdonshire, now in cambridgeshire: an "earl of godmanchester" would have
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