Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000

Notes

William CAVENDISH

1 UPDA
2 PLAC 5th Duke of Devonshire

Georgiana SPENCER Duchess

She had a close friendship with George 1V & became pregnant and he may had
fathered the child?
She was also in love with Charles 2nd Earl Grey, Whig Prime Minister, from
1830-34, was 7 years her junior, and said to be the most handsome man in
England. She became pregnant, and the Duke discovered that it was Grey's
child. Georgiana bore a daughter named Eliza Courtney, in exile.
"The face without a frown" immortalized by Gainsborough.

William Spencer CAVENDISH

1 NAME Bachelor /Duke/
1 UPDA
2 PLAC 6th Duke of Devonshire

A scholar, connoisseur & horticulturist, who furthered the career of the
early-Victorian genius, Sir Joseph Paxton, originally one of the gardeners at
Chatsworth.

John SPENCER 1st Earl

1 NAME John (Jack) of/Althorp/
1 UPDA
2 DATE 1765
2 PLAC Baron Spencer of Althorp

A great collector of paintings by Reynolds, Gainsborough and Stubbs.

Georgiana POYNTZ

1 UPDA
2 PLAC Admiralty at the time of Trafalgar

George John SPENCER 2nd Earl

1 UPDA
2 DATE 1ST LORD OF THE
2 PLAC Admiralty at the time of Trafalgar

The Earls collection of more than 40,000 early printed books is now in the
John Rylands Library at Manchester University. William is not shown in Burke's
Peerage (1949) under Spencer but is mentioned (in contradiction) under Derby (
11th E).

James Crofts SCOTT Duke

MONMOUTH, pronounced MAHN muhth, DUKE OF (1649-1685), was an Englishman who led an unsuccessful rebellion against King James II. Monmouth was the illegitimate son of Charles II and a Welsh woman named Lucy Walter, and was a pretender to the throne of England.

Monmouth was born James Scott in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His father became King Charles II in 1660 after Richard Cromwell lost power. Charles called Scott back to England and made him Duke of Monmouth.

In 1685, Charles II died and his brother James II became king. Monmouth claimed to be the legitimate heir to the throne, on the false grounds that his parents had married. After consulting with supporters in the Netherlands, he landed at Lyme Regis, near Weymouth, and issued a proclamation declaring James a usurper, tyrant, and murderer. He rallied about 4,000 men in southwestern England to overthrow James. But he was defeated at the Battle of Sedgemoor, near Taunton, and taken to the king. Before a court headed by Lord Jeffreys, he begged for his life. But he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed.

or James Fitzroy. He always claimed his parents were married, and that he
possessed their marriage lines, but he never produced them.
Took his wifes name upon marriage.

Aubrey DE VERE 20th and last

The De Vere family flourished in Essex from the Norman Conquest until 1703.
Aubrey De Vere (1090-1141) built the great keep at Castle Hedingham in about
1140. He died a year later in a London riot. It has been alleged that Edward
De Vere (1550-1604), 17th Earl of Oxford, is the real author of Shakespeare's
plays, although the same claim has been made about many other men.