page_title: Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
section_title: Vienna
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry / Diplomatic career / Vienna
caption_attribution_description: English: Shield of arms of Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH, PC
context_page_description: Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, was an Irish soldier in the British army, a politician, and a nobleman. As a soldier he fought in the French Revolutionary Wars, in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, and in the Napoleonic wars. He excelled as a cavalry commander on the Iberian Peninsula under John Moore and Arthur Wellesley.
  Having been dismissed by Wellington, his half-brother Lord Castlereagh helped him to launch a diplomatic career. He was posted to Berlin in 1813, and then as Ambassador to Austria, where his half-brother was the British plenipotentiary at the Congress of Vienna.
  He married Lady Catherine Bligh in 1804 and then, in 1819, Lady Frances Anne Vane, a rich heiress, changing his surname to hers, thus being called Charles Vane instead of Charles Stewart from there on. He succeeded his half-brother as 3rd Marquess of Londonderry in 1822. He developed coal mines on his wife's land in County Durham.
context_section_description: In 1814 he was also appointed Ambassador to Austria, a post he held for nine years (1814–1823). On 18 June 1814, to make him more acceptable in Vienna, Stewart was ennobled as Baron Stewart, of Stewart's Court and Ballylawn in County Donegal, by the Prince Regent. In the same year, he received honorary degrees from Oxford and Cambridge, was admitted to the Privy Council, and was appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber to the King.
  Lord Stewart, as he now was, attended the Congress of Vienna with his half-brother Lord Castlereagh as one of the British plenipotentiaries. He was not well regarded as he made a spectacle of himself with his loutish behaviour, was apparently rather often inebriated, frequented prostitutes quite openly. He earned himself the sobriquet of Lord Pumpernickel after a loutish character in a play in fashion.
caption: Shield of arms of the Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, as shown on his Order of the Garter stall plate. The shield is quartered with his second wife's arms, the Vane's three gauntlets.
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