Charles Stewart ( March 7, 1639 - December 12, 1672 ) - 1st Earl Lichfield and 1st Baron Stewart from Newbury from 1645, 3rd Duke of Richmond , 6th Earl and 6th Duke of Lennox, 4th Earl March, the 4th Baron Stewart of Leighton Bromsvolt and the 4th Lord Clifton of Leighton Bromsvolt from 1660 , the 11th Seigneur d'Aubigny from 1668 .
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| English Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Stuart, Esme, 2nd Duke of Richmond | ||||||
| Successor | english crown | ||||||
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| Predecessor | Stuart, Esme, 2nd Duke of Richmond | ||||||
| Successor | english crown | ||||||
| Birth | March 7, 1639 London , England | ||||||
| Death | December 12, 1672 (33 years) Helsingør , Denmark | ||||||
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| Rod | Stewarts (a branch from Darnley) | ||||||
| Father | George stewart | ||||||
| Mother | Katherine Howard | ||||||
| Spouse | 1) Elizabeth Rogers 2) Margaret Banaster 3) Frances Theresa Stewart | ||||||
| Children | childless | ||||||
Biography
The only son of George Stuart ( July 17, 1618 - October 23, 1642 ), the 9th lord d'Aubigny (1632–1642), and Catherine Howard (d. 1650 ), the daughter of Theophilia Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, and Elizabeth Home. Grandson of Esme Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox .
December 10, 1645 Charles Stewart received from the English King Charles I Stewart the titles of Count Likhfield and Baron Stewart of Newbury ( Berkshire ) in honor of his uncle, Lord Bernard Stewart (1623-1645), who died in the Battle of Routon Hite in September 1645 .
In January 1658, Charles Stewart went into exile in France, where he settled with his uncle Louis Stewart ( 1619 - 1665 ), the lord d'Aubigny. The following 1659, the English State Council issued a warrant for the arrest of Charles Stewart and the confiscation of his property.
Charles Stewart returned to England with King Charles II Stewart . On August 10, 1660, after the death of his cousin Esme Stewart, the 2nd city of the Duke of Richmond (1649—1660), Charles Stewart inherited the titles of the 3rd Duke of Richmond and the 6th Duke of Lennox. In the same year he became the hereditary great chamberlain of Scotland, the great admiral of Scotland, and Lord Lieutenant of Dorset . April 15, 1661 was awarded the Order of the Garter .
After the death of his uncle Louis Stewart, Charles Stewart, having received permission from the French king Louis XIV, on May 11, 1670, became the 12th lord d'Aubigny. In July 1667, after the death of her cousin Mary Butler, Countess of Arran , Charles Stewart inherited the title of Baron Clifton. On May 4, 1668, he became Lord Lieutenant and Vice Admiral of Kent.
In 1671, Charles Stewart was sent as ambassador to the king of Denmark to convince Denmark to join England and France in the impending war with Holland. 33-year-old Charles Stewart drowned in Helsingør (Denmark). September 20, 1673, he was buried in Westminster Abbey . Almost all his titles returned to the English crown. His sister, Lady Catherine O'Brien (c. 1640-1702 ), inherited the title of Baroness Clifton.
The titles of the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Lennox, and the Earl of March were restored in 1675 by Charles II Stuart for his illegitimate son Charles of Lennox, the 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox .
Marriages
In 1659, Charles Stewart married his first marriage to Elizabeth Rogers (c. 1644 - April 21, 1661 ), the widow of Charles Cavendish, Viscount Mansfield, the eldest daughter of Richard Rogers of Briyanstone and Ann Chick. She died in childbirth. Their only daughter died in 1662 .
On March 31, 1662, he remarried to Margaret Banaster (Banister) (1652-1667), the daughter of Lawrence Banaster, and the widow of William Lewis.
In March 1667, for the third time he married Francis Theresa Stewart (1647 - October 15, 1702), the granddaughter of Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre. Frances Stewart was one of the favorites of the English King Charles II Stewart .
Sources
- Money, Walter (1881). During the Civil War, AD 1643-6 . Simpkin, Marshall and co. Retrieved 2009-03-01.
- “Stuart, Charles (1640–1672) . ” Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.