Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
Charles Henry Gordon- Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Gordon,( 30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935), known as Lord Settrington 1870 – 1903, and as Earl of March 1903 – 1928, was a British Peer and politician.
Lord John Stewart
Lord John Stewart( 23 October 1621 – 29 March 1644) was a Scottish aristocrat who served as a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
He was one of five sons of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and his wife Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, and the brother of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond.
With his youngest brother, Lord Bernard Stewart, he embarked on a three- year tour of the continent in 1639, before returning to join the King ’s cause in the Civil War as a General.
He was killed at the Battle of Cheriton near Alresford, Essex, on 29 March 1644.
Only one of his brothers, Lodovic, survived the war to see the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Field Marshal Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Aubigny,( 22 February 1735 – 29 December 1806), styled Earl of March until 1750, was a British Army officer and politician.
He associated with the Rockingham Whigs and rose to hold the post of Southern Secretary for a brief period.
He was noteworthy for his support for the colonists during the American Revolutionary War, his support for a policy of concession in Ireland and his advanced views on the issue of parliamentary reform.
He went on to be a reforming Master- General of the Ordnance first in the Rockingham ministry and then in the ministry of William Pitt.
George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny
George Stewart (or Stuart), 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (17 July 1618 – 23 October 1642) was a Scottish nobleman and Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
He was the son of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, and his wife Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, and the brother of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond and 4th Duke of Lennox, and of the Royalist commander Lord Bernard Stewart.
Stewart, his older brother Henry, and younger brother Ludovic were brought up at Aubigny in France as Roman Catholics under the charge of their paternal grandmother, the old Duchess-Dowager, Katherine de Balsac.
Stewart's father, the Duke of Lennox, died in 1624, and Stewart became a ward of his cousin, King Charles I of England.
He inherited the Lordship of Aubigny at the age of 14 on the death of his elder brother Henry in 1632.
By 1633, he was a student at the Collège de Navarre, part of the University of Paris, and he did homage to Louis XIII of France for the lordship of Aubigny on 5 August 1636, shortly after his eighteenth birthday.
Later that year he moved to England.
In 1638 he secretly married Katherine Howard, the daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and Elizabeth Home, without her father's consent, offending his guardian the king.
The portrait of Stewart by Anthony van Dyck, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London, may have been painted to mark his marriage; the Latin inscription can be translated
"Love is stronger than I am" which may allude to his conflicting loyalties.
His younger brothers Lords John and Bernard are shown in a still more famous double Van Dyck portrait in the National Gallery, London - the iconic image of Cavaliers.
They were also both killed in the Civil War.
George Stewart and Katherine Howard had two children:
He fought with the French against the Spanish in the Battle of Montjuïc (1641).
As civil war loomed in England, Stewart joined the forces of King Charles at York where he was knighted on 18 April 1642 along with his brother Bernard.
He was mortally wounded in the first pitched battle of the war at Edgehill on Sunday 23 October 1642, aged 24.
He was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
The lordship of Aubigny passed to his next brother, Ludovic, on his death.
His widow remarried James Levingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh and had one further child Elizabeth.
They were suspected in 1648 of plotting to rescue Charles I and on the discovery of the supposed plot fled to the Netherlands where Katherine died in 1650.
Lord Bernard Stewart
Lord Bernard Stewart( 1623 – 26 September 1645) was a Scottish aristocrat who served as a Royalist commander in the English Civil War.
He was the youngest of the five sons of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox, and his wife Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton, and the brother of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond.
Lord Bernard was to be created Earl of Lichfield by King Charles I for his actions at the first and second battles of Newbury and Naseby but died of injuries received leading a sortie against besieging Parliamentary forces in the Battle of Rowton Heath in September 1645, before the patent could be implemented.
The titles of Baron Newbury and Earl of Lichfield were instead created in December 1645 for his six- year- old nephew, Charles Stewart( 1639 – 1672), the son of Bernard's elder brother George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny, who had been killed at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642.
His brother John was also killed in the war.
James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond
James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox KG
( 6 April 1612 – 30 March 1655) was a British nobleman.
He was the eldest son of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox and his wife Katherine Clifton, 2nd Baroness Clifton.
James Stewart inherited the Dukedom of Lennox on his father's death( 30 June 1624) and was made a gentleman of the bedchamber in 1625, and knighted on 29 June 1630.
He was invested as a knight of Order of the Garter in 1633.
He married Mary Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham on 3 August 1637.
A third cousin of Charles I of England, Stewart was a Privy Councillor and key member of Royalist party in the English Civil War.
In 1641 – 42, he served as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
He spent five months in exile in 1643, returning to England to defend the city of Oxford for the king.
He died on 30 March 1655 at age 42 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox KG (7 March 1639December 1672) was the only son of George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny and Katherine Howard, daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
He was the grandson of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox.
On 10 December 1645 he was created Baron Stuart of Newbury, Berkshire, and Earl of Lichfield, titles conferred on him "to perpetuate the titles which were intended to have been conferred on his uncle" Lord Bernard Stewart, youngest son of the Duke of Lennox, who had been killed in the Battle of Rowton Heath in the English Civil War in September of that year.
In January 1658, Charles Stewart went into exile in France, and took up his residence in the house of his uncle, Ludovic, seigneur d'Aubigny.
In the following year he fell under the displeasure of The Protectorate's Council of State, and warrants were issued for seizing his person and goods.
Charles Stewart married, firstly, Elizabeth Rogers, after June 1659.
He married, secondly, Margaret Banaster (widow of William Lewis) on 31 March 1662.
He married, thirdly, Frances Teresa Stewart, granddaughter of Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre, in March 1667.
This last marriage was famous, as Frances Stewart, known at court as "Le Belle Stuart" had been desired by Richmond's cousin, King Charles II, as a mistress.
Charles Stewart returned to England with Charles II in 1660, and sat in the Convention Parliament, showing great animosity towards the supporters of the Commonwealth.
On the death of his 10-year-old cousin Esmé Stewart on 10 August 1660, Charles Stewart succeeded as third Duke of Richmond and sixth Duke of Lennox.
In that same year he was created Hereditary Great Chamberlain of Scotland, Hereditary Great Admiral of Scotland, and Lord-Lieutenant of Dorset.
On 15 April 1661 he was invested with the Order of the Garter.
On the death of his uncle, Ludovic Stuart, he succeeded him as 12th Seigneur D'Aubigny, for which title he did homage by proxy to Louis XIV of France on 11 May 1670.
In July 1667, on the death of his cousin, Mary Butler, countess of Arran, he became Baron Clifton, and on 4 May 1668 he was made lord lieutenant and vice admiral of Kent jointly with the Earl of Winchilsea.
In 1671 he was sent as ambassador to the Danish court to persuade Denmark to join England and France in a projected attack on the Dutch.
While there he died (by drowning) in 1672, aged 33 at Elsinore, without issue, and his titles became extinct, with the exception of Baron Clifton, which passed with most of his property to his sister Katherine, Lady O'Brien.
His wife, however, had had the Lennox estates granted to her for life.
He was buried on 20 September 1673 at Westminster Abbey.
The titles Duke of Richmond, Duke of Lennox and Earl of March, were resurrected for Charles II's illegitimate son by Louise de Kérouaille, Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox, in 1675.
Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Esmé Stuart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 5th Duke of Lennox( 2 November 164910 August 1660) was the son of James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond and Mary Villiers, daughter of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
His father, who had been a loyal support of Charles I of England during the English Civil War, died in 1655, and Esmé and his mother went into exile in France.
He died of the smallpox in 1660, aged 10, in Paris, unmarried and his titles passed to his cousin Charles.
He was interred, on 4 September 1660, in Westminster Abbey.
Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 3rd Duke of Berwick
Jacobo Francisco Eduardo Fitz- James Stuart y Colón de Portugal, 3rd Duke of Berwick, 3rd Duke of Liria and Jérica, 9th Duke of Veragua, 9th Duke of la Vega( 28 December 1718 – Valencia, 30 September 1785) was a Spanish Jacobite.
On the death of his father, James Fitz- James Stuart, in 1738, he inherited his titles of Duke of Berwick and Duke of Liria and Xerica( he also possessed many other titles in both Spain and England.)
His mother was Spanish, and on her side he was a direct descendant of explorer Christopher Columbus.
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox, 2nd Duke of Aubigny,( 18 May 17018 August 1750) was a British nobleman, peer, and politician.
He was the son of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, an illegitimate son of King Charles II.
He held a number of posts in connection with his high office but is best remembered for his patronage of cricket.
He has been described as the most important of the sport's early patrons and did much to help its evolution from village cricket to first- class cricket.

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