The descendants of Anne, Countess of Castlehaven

by William Addams Reitwiesner


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Anne, Countess of Castlehaven (d. 1647), was involved in one of the most sensational trials in British history. On Monday, 25 April 1631, her husband, the Earl of Castlehaven, was tried and convicted of sodomy (i.e., buggery with one of his servants) and rape (of his wife, i.e, restraining her while another of his servants raped her). For these crimes the Earl was beheaded on 14 May 1631.

The trial of the Earl has been the subject of considerable discussion at the time and since, most recently by Cynthia B. Herrup in her book A House in Gross Disorder: Sex, Law, and the 2nd Earl of Castlehaven [Oxford University Press, 1999]. What most commentators on the case do not mention is that the Countess of Castlehaven might have become the reigning Queen of England.

The following chart illustrates the discussion below:


           Henry VII King of England m. Elizabeth of England
                                     |
    -------------------------------------------------
   |                                  |              |
Henry VIII, d. 1547                Margaret         Mary m2. Charles Brandon
   |                                  |                  |     Duke of Suffolk
  --------------------                |                  |
 |         |          |               V                  |
Mary   Elizabeth   Edward         descendant             |
died    d. 1603    d. 1553      (James VI & I)           |
1558                            succeeded 1603           |
                                                         |
                                ---------------------------------
                               |                                 |
                       Frances Brandon                   Eleanor Brandon
                      m1. Henry Grey                   m. Henry Clifford
                      |   3 M Dorset                   |    2 E Cumberland
                      |                                |
      --------------------------------------            -----------
     |                  |                   |                      |
  Jane Grey       Katherine Grey        Mary Grey           Margaret Clifford
  m. Guilford    "m2" Edward Seymour   m. Thomas Keyes     m. Henry Stanley
     Dudley       |   1 E Hereford        no issue         |    4 E Derby
    no issue      |                                        |
                  |                        ---------------------------
                  |                       |                           |
            Edward Seymour        Ferdinando Stanley           William Stanley
           Lord Beauchamp            5 E Derby                   6 E Derby
                 |                 m. Alice Spencer                 |
                 V                 |                                V
           Baroness Kinloss        |                            Earl of Derby
                                   |
           -------------------------------------------------------------
          |                                     |                       |
       Anne Stanley                      Frances Stanley      Elizabeth Stanley
     m1. Grey Brydges, 5 B Chandos      m. John Egerton      m. Henry Hastings
     |    m2. Mervyn Tuchet             |  1 E Bridgwater    |  5 E Huntingdon
     |        2 E Castlehaven           |                    |
     V                                  V                    V
   see below                      Earl of Jersey       Earl of Loudoun



At the battle at Bosworth Field on 22 August 1485, the Earl of Richmond won a military battle over the then English King Richard III (who was killed at Bosworth), and thus won the Crown by force of arms, and ascended the Throne as King Henry VII (1 Hen. VII. cap. 1). Henry VII was, at his death on 21 April 1509, succeeded by his only surviving son, Henry VIII. The prodigious amount of marrying and divorcing, and the concomitant bastardization of the issue of the preceeding marriage, of this Sovereign, emphasized that some sort of regularization of the succession was necessary. Twice the Parliaments of Henry VIII did just that.

The first, 28 Hen. VIII. cap. 7, enacted 1536, and printed in full in vol. 4 of Danby Pickering, Statutes at Large [1763], pp. 416-433, while dealing for the most part with the annullment of Henry's marriage with Anne Boleyn and with the bastardization of their daughter Elizabeth, states in part, "that your Highness shall have ... authority to give, dispose, appoint, assign, declare, and limit, by your letters patent under your great seal, or else by your last will made in writing, and assigned with your most gracious hand ... the imperial crown of this realm and all other the premisses thereunto belonging ... " (p. 426). The other, 35 Hen. VIII. cap. 1, enacted 1543/4, and printed in vol. 5 of Pickering's Statutes [1763], pp. 192-199, again states that the then King could limit the succession "by his gracious letters patent under the great seal, or by his last will in writing, signed with his most gracious hand ... " (p. 192).

As authorized in these statutes, Henry VIII, in his last Will and Testament, dated 30 December 1546 (he died 28 January 1546/7, less than a month later), set out the succession as he wished it to be after his death. As printed in Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol 15 [1713], pp. 110-117, Henry was to be succeeded by his son Edward, and Edward's legitimate descendants, followed by the heirs of Henry's body by his then wife Katherine (Parr) and any other lawful wife he may take (this means both sons and daughters; Mary and Elizabeth were not to succeed until all other issue of Henry was extinct), followed by his daughter Mary and her legitimate descendants, followed by his daughter Elizabeth and her legitimate descendants, followed by his niece Frances (daughter of Henry's younger (!) sister) and her legitimate descendants, followed by his niece Eleanor (sister of Frances) and her legitimate descendants, followed by "the next Ryghtful Heires", which he does not specify (pp. 112-113). Note that in this Will (which by Parliamentary Act had the force of law) Henry passes over the descendants of his elder sister entirely, or places them after the descendants of his younger sister. (There is some question as to whether Henry's Will was actually "signed with his most gracious hand". See, for example, Lacey Baldwin Smith, "The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII: a Question of Perspective", The Journal of British Studies, vol. 2, no. 1 [Nov. 1962], pp. 14-27).

At Henry's death, he was succeeded by his son Edward, who became King Edward VI. At Edward's death, unmarried, on 6 July 1553, he was succeeded, anomalously and illegally, by Jane, eldest daughter of the above-named Frances (who, by the way, was still alive at that time), but Jane, commonly known as "Lady Jane Grey" but actually Lady Jane Dudley, was dethroned a few days later (on the 19th) by the rightful heir, Mary [Henry had no children by Katherine Parr, his last wife]. Mary reigned alone until 25 July 1554 when she married Felipe, heir to the Spanish possessions, and they became "Philip and Mary, King and Queen of England" (Felipe became King of Spain on the abdication of his father on 16 Jan. 1556). Mary died without issue on 17 Nov. 1558, and was succeeded by Elizabeth. Elizabeth died unmarried on 24 March 1602/3, and was succeeded by James VI, King of Scotland, great-grandson and heir of Margaret, the elder sister of Henry VIII, in contravention of the law of England as set by the Will of Henry VIII. Why? And how?

Elizabeth was smart enough to know that were she to explicitly designate a successor, that successor could become an alternate location of power in England. She suppressed the publication of her father's Will, and when Parliament petitioned her in 1566 to name a successor (8 Eliz. cap. 18), she ignored the petition. Nevertheless, her opinion seems to have been clear. ODNB 49:871 says: "Various accounts of Elizabeth's death report her rejection of Beauchamp as her successor with the words 'I will have no Rascall to succeed me, as who should succeed me but a King?' (BL, Harley MS 7042, fol 237r)."

This Beauchamp was a grandson of Frances Brandon, to whom Henry VIII left, by name, the Throne of England upon the extinction of his own descendants. Frances married twice, and died on 11 November 1559. Her first husband, whom she married around 1534, was Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset, later created Duke of Suffolk, who died 23 February 1553/4. She married her second husband, Adrian Stokes, on 9 March 1553/4, and he died around 1581. Frances had only three children who reached majority, all by her first husband. These were Jane, Katherine, and Mary. Jane, mentioned above, was irregularly Queen for a few days, and was executed with her husband, Guilford Dudley (whom she married 21 May 1553) on 12 Feb. 1553/4, without issue. Mary, the youngest, married Thomas Keyes on 10 August 1565, and died on 20 April 1578, without issue (he died in 1571). The middle child, Katherine Grey, married, on 25 May 1553, Henry Herbert, Lord Herbert (later 2nd Earl of Pembroke), but the marriage was annulled a year or so later, with no issue.

In the Summer of 1561, Katherine Grey was pregnant. The father of the child was Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, son of the attainted Lord Protector Somerset. Queen Elizabeth sent Katherine to the Tower of London in August 1561, and Hertford joined her there on 5 Sept. On 24 September 1561, Katherine, while still in the Tower, gave birth to a son named Edward, who was baptized at St. Peter's-ad-Vincula there on 26 Sept. 1561. Katherine claimed that she and Lord Hertford had married in late 1560 (between All Hallowtide and Christmas), but that the marriage was performed in great secrecy at Hertford's house in Cannon Row, Westminster, by a clergyman whose name she never learned. Elizabeth's consent for this marriage was not sought. No written record of the marriage was made at the time, and no record has surfaced since. On 12 May 1562 a commission, headed by Parker (Archbishop of Canterbury), found that there had been no marriage. Then on 11 Feb. 1562/3, Katherine, still a prisoner in the Tower, gave birth to another son, Thomas, who had also been fathered by the Earl of Hertford. Due to an outbreak of the plague, Katherine was removed from Tower in August 1563, but was kept in custody, and died at Cockfield on 27 Jan. 1567/8. Hertford was also removed from the Tower in Aug 1563 and kept in confinement until 1571. In Nov 1595 Hertford petitioned Elizabeth to have the declaration of invalidity of his marriage overturned, and in response Elizabeth sent him to the Tower. She released him on 3 Jan 1595/6 and he died on 6 Apr. 1621.

Thomas Seymour, the younger son of Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, died without issue on 8 Aug. 1600. The older son, Edward, styled Lord Beauchamp, obtained two Letters Patent, both dated 14 May 6 Jac. (1608), the first stating that he and the heirs male of his body immediately after the decease of his father should be Barons of Parliament, and the second stating that he should enjoy the title of Earl of Hertford immediately after the death of his father, and that in the event of his dying in his father's lifetime the said title should be enjoyed by his eldest son Edward Seymour, his second son William Seymour, and his third son Francis Seymour, and the heirs male of their bodies respectively. The apparent reason for these Letters Patent is that the marriage of Lord Beauchamp's parents (Katherine Grey and Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford) could not be proved. Lord Beauchamp died in July 1612 and his oldest son Edward, also styled Lord Beauchamp, died without issue in 1618. William Seymour, the second son, had been imprisoned in the Tower in 1610 for marrying Arabella Stuart, but nonetheless succeeded as Earl of Hertford at the death of his grandfather in 1621 under the terms of the 1608 Letters Patent. In 1641 he was created Marquess of Hertford, and after the Restoration, a private Act of Parliament 13 Sept. 1660 (see Statutes of the Realm [reprinted Buffalo: Hein, 1993], vol. 5, p. 253), confirmed by another private Act of 20 Dec. 1661 (Statutes of the Realm, vol. 5, p. 349), reversed part of the attainder of his great-grandfather, the first Duke of Somerset (Katherine's father-in-law), and allowed William to succeed as Duke of Somerset, thus implicitly accepting (without explicitly stating) the validity of Katherine's marriage.

On the death of Mary Grey, Mrs Keyes, on 20 Apr. 1578, the unquestionably legitimate descendants of Henry VIII's niece, Frances, came to an end. Under Henry's Will, upon the extinction of Henry's own legitimate descendants and the extinction of the legitimate descendants of Frances, the Throne of England was to fall to his niece Eleanor and her legitimate descendants. This Eleanor Brandon, who died 27 Sept. 1547, married 1537 Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland (who died 2 Jan. 1568/9) and had only one surviving child, Margaret. Margaret Clifford married 7 Feb. 1554/5 Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (and sovereign of the Isle of Man), who died 25 Sept. 1593, and she died 29 Sept. 1596. At the death of Mrs Keyes in 1578, Margaret, Countess of Derby, then (under the terms of the Will of Henry VIII and accepting the illegitimacy of the children of Katherine Grey) became the heiress-presumptive of the English Crown.

This proximity of the Derbys to the Crown was well known, and (because of his public adherence to the Roman Catholic faith) from about 1591 some of the catholics in England looked towards Ferdinando, Margaret's elder son, as Queen Elizabeth's successor to the Throne. In fact in late 1593, some foreign conspirators sent one Richard Hesketh as their intermediary to approach Ferdinando (who had succeeded his father as 5th Earl of Derby) and persuade him to set up his claim, and promising Spanish assistance. Ferdinando refused to entertain Hesketh's proposals, and turned him over to Elizabeth's authorities, who promptly executed Hesketh on 29 Nov. 1593. Ferdinando died a few months later, on 16 April 1594, and there were rumors at the time that he had been poisoned by the foreign conspirators for having spurned their advances. See the ODNB articles on Ferdinando and Hesketh.

Ferdinando had no sons (and so was succeeded as Earl of Derby by his brother William, ancestor of all succeeding Earls), but left three daughters, Anne, Frances, and Elizabeth. At the death of their grandmother Margaret in 1596, the oldest, Anne, became (under the scenario laid out here) heiress-presumptive to Queen Elizabeth and, on Elizabeth's death on 24 March 1602/3, should have succeeded her on the English Throne as Anne I. This Anne was the Countess of Castlehaven whose second husband was executed in 1631 for unnatural offenses (see above).




The following material on the descendants of the Countess of Castlehaven was taken primarily from The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval (pseud.), The Blood Royal of Britain [1903, reprinted 1994], Table LXXXII (p. 48), with additions and clarifications from Ruvigny's The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, The Isabel of Exeter Volume [1908, reprinted 1994], p. 459, from the second edition of Cokayne's Complete Peerage and its Corrigenda volume, from Cokayne's Complete Baronetage, from the Dictionary of National Biography, and from the four volumes of Rev. Canon Arthur Roland Maddison, Lincolnshire Pedigrees (published as vols. 50, 51, 52, and 55 of the Publications of the Harleian Society [1902-1906]).




Descendants of Anne, Countess of Castlehaven
                   
1 ANNE STANLEY, * ... May 1580, + Ruislip, Middlesex, ... [bur. Harefield, Midx., 11 Oct. 1647, admon. 2 March 1654/5], dau. of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby, and of Alice Spencer,
m. (1) ... 28 Feb. 1607/8,
Grey Brydges, from 18 Nov. 1602, 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, * ... [bef. 1581], + Spa, Germany, 10 Aug. 1621 [bur. Sudeley, co. Gloucester, admon. 30 May 1622], son of William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and of Mary Hopton,
m. (2) Harefield, Midx., 22 July 1624, as his second wife,
Mervyn Tuchet, from 20 Feb. 1616/7, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, b. ... [ca. 1593, ae. 23 in June 1616], beheaded Tower Hill, London, 14 May 1631, [he had m. (1) ... (bef. 1619), Elizabeth Barnham, *... , + ... (after Oct. 1622 and before 22 July 1624)], son of George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven, and of Lucy Mervyn.
Issue by first husband (order uncertain):
a. Robert Brydges, * ... , + ... (an infant, bef. 20 June 1611).
2 b. Anne Brydges, * ... , + ... .
3 c. Elizabeth Brydges, * ... [ca. 1616, ae. 12 at marriage], + ... [bur. St.-Martin's-in-the-Fields, 16 March 1678/9].
4 d. George Brydges, * ... 9 Aug. 1620, + ... Feb. 1654/5 [bur. Sudeley, co. Gloucester, will dated 24 Jan. 1654/5].
5 e. William Brydges, * ... , + ... [bur. Harefield, Midx., 22 Aug. 1676].
Issue by second husband:
f. Anne Tuchet, * ... , + ... (apparently young and unmarried).



Generation II


2 Anne Brydges, * ... , + ... , dau. of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and of Anne Stanley [number 1],
m. ... ,
... Torteson, * ... , + ... , son of ... Torteson and of ... .
Issue, if any, unknown.


3 Elizabeth Brydges, * ... [ca. 1616, ae. 12 at marriage], + ... [bur. St.-Martin's-in-the-Fields, 16 March 1678/9], dau. of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and of Anne Stanley [number 1],
m. Kilkenny, ... [ca. 1628], as his first wife,
James Tuchet, from 14 May 1631, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven, created, 3 June 1633, Baron Audley of Hely, * ... [ca. 1612], + Kilcash, co. Tipperary, 11 Oct. 1684, [he later m. (2) ... (settlement 19 and 20 June 1679), Elizabeth ... (Graves?), * ... , + ... (will dated 15 Aug. pro. Dublin 22 Dec. 1720)], son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, and of Elizabeth Barnham.
No issue.


4 George Brydges, from 10 Aug. 1621, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, * ... 9 Aug. 1620, + ... Feb. 1654/5 [bur. Sudeley, co. Gloucester, will dated 24 Jan. 1654/5], son of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and of Anne Stanley [number 1],
m. (1) Totteridge, Herts, 14 Dec. 1637,
Susan Montagu, * ... , + ... [bur. Harefield, Midx., 20 Apr. 1652], dau. of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, and of Margaret Crouch,
m. (2) Hedgerley, Bucks, 17 Jan. 1652/3, as her first husband,
Jane Savage, * ... , + ... 6 June 1676, [she later m. (2) St. Mildred's, Poultry ... (banns St. Bride's, London, 21 Oct. 1655), Sir William Sidley, 4th Bart., of Ailesford, Kent, * ... , + ... 1656 (will pr. 1656), and later m. (3) ... 1657, George Pitt, of Strathfield Saye, Hants., * ... , + ... 27 July 1694], dau. of John Savage, 1st Earl of Rivers, and of Catherine Parker.
Issue by first wife:
6 a. Margaret Brydges, * ... [ca. 1651], + ... 1 Jan. 1731/2 [bur. Westminster Abbey 8 Jan. 1731/2].
7 b. Elizabeth Brydges, * ... [bapt. Harefield, Midx., 25 March 1651], + St. Julian's, co. Monmouth, 3 Feb. 1717/8.
Issue by second wife:
8 c. Lucy Brydges, * ... , + ... [shortly before 12 July 1689].
9 d. Catherine Brydges, * ... , + ... [shortly before 24 Aug. 1682].


5 William Brydges, from ... Feb. 1654/5, 7th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, * ... , + ... [bur. Harefield, Midx., 22 Aug. 1676], son of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos of Sudeley, and of Anne Stanley [number 1],
m. ... ,
Susan Kerr, * ... , + ... [bur Harefield, Midx., 15 Oct. 1672], dau. of Garret Kerr (or Carr) and of ... .
Issue:
a. Mary Brydges, * ... , + ... .
b. Frances Brydges, * ... , + ... .
10 c. Rebecca Brydges, * ... , + ... .



Generation III


6 Margaret Brydges, * ... [ca. 1651], + ... 1 Jan. 1731/2 [bur. in the Duke of Ormonde's vault, Westminster Abbey, 8 Jan. 1731/2], dau. of George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley [number 4], and of Susan Montagu,
m. (1) ... [lic. 7 July 1668 at St. Margaret's, Westminster], as his second wife,
William Brownlow, of Snarford, co. Lincoln, * ... 1638, + ... [admonition Apr. 1675] [he had m. (1) St. James, Clerkenwell, 28 July 1664, Elizabeth de la Fontaine, * ... , + ... ], son of Sir William Brownlow, 1st Bart., of Humby, and of Elizabeth Duncombe,
m. (2) ... ,
Thomas Skipwith, from 2 June 1644, Sir Thomas Skipwith, 2nd Bart., of Metheringham, * ... [probably about 1652], + Bath 15 June 1710 [bur. Upminster, will pr. 8 July 1710], son of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 1st Bart., of Metheringham, and of Elizabeth Latham.
Issue by first husband:
11 a. Elizabeth Brownlow, * ... , + ... .
Issue by second husband:
b. Lucy Ann Skipwith, * ... , + ... .
12 c. George Brydges Skipwith, * ... 7 Nov. 1686 [bapt. St.-Giles-in-the-Fields 14 Nov. 1686], + ... 4 June 1756 [will dated 29 June 1729 to 22 Apr. 1738, pro. 18 Jan. 1759].


7 Elizabeth Brydges, * ... [bapt. Harefield, Midx., 25 March 1651], + St. Julian's, co. Monmouth, 3 Feb. 1717/8, dau. of George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley [number 4], and of Susan Montagu,
m. (1) ... 20 Aug. 1673, as his second wife,
Edward Herbert, from 13 May 1655, 3rd Baron Herbert of Chirbury, * ... [February or March 1630], + ... 9 Dec. 1678 [bur. Westminster Abbey 16 Dec. 1678, admon. 2 Jan. 1678/9], [he had m. (1) ... (bef. 1660), Anne Middleton, * ... , + ... (after 1660)], son of Richard Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury, and of Mary Egerton,
m. (2) ... [after 27 Dec. 1683], as his second wife,
William O'Brien, from 9 Sept. 1674, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin, * ... [ca. 1640], + Santiago de la Vega, Jamaica 16 Jan. 1691/2 [bur. there, will pr. 1693], [he had m. (1) ... 1665 (about Dec.), Margaret Boyle, * ... , + ... (bur. St. Martin's-in-the-Fields 27 Dec. 1683)], son of Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin, and of Elizabeth St. Leger,
m. (3) ... Aug. 1694, as his (second?) wife, div. ... ,
Charles Howard, from ... [shortly before 24 Apr. 1694], 4th Baron Howard of Escrick, * ... [of age 20 Nov. 1694], + ... 29 Apr. 1715, [he had allegedly m. (1) ... , ... (Mrs. Pike), * ... , + ... , which marriage was held to be insufficiently proved, Guildhall, 10 July 1697], son of William Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Escrick, and of Frances Bridgeman
m. (4) ... 1712,
... George, * ... [France], + ... , son of ... George and of ... .
No issue.


8 Lucy Brydges, * ... , + ... [shortly before 12 July 1689], dau. of George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley [number 4], and of Jane Savage,
m. ... ,
Adam Loftus, created, 29 Jan. 1685/6, Viscount Lisburne, * ... , slain during the Siege of Limerick, 15 Sept. 1691 [bur. St. Patrick's, Dublin, 28 Sept. 1691], son of Sir Arthur Loftus and of Dorothy Boyle.
Issue:
13 a. Lucy Loftus, * ... [ca. 1670, ae. 47 at death], + Aylesbury, co. Bucks., 5 Feb. 1716/7 [bur. Winchendon 14 Feb. 1716/7, will dated 9 Dec. 1715, pro. 20 Feb. 1716/7].


9 Catherine Brydges, * ... , + ... [bur. Westminster Abbey 24 Aug. 1682], dau. of George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley [number 4], and of Jane Savage,
m. Paris 14 Oct. 1681, as his second wife,
Richard Parsons, from 31 Dec. 1658 Sir Richard Parsons, 3rd Bart., of Bellamont, created, 2 July 1681, 1st Viscount Rosse, * ... [ca. 1656], + 30 Jan. 1702/3 [bur. St. Patrick's, Dublin] [he had m. (1) ... (lic. fac. 27 Feb. 1676/7), Anne Walsingham, * ... (ca. 1660), + ... , and later m. (3) ... Dec. 1685, Elizabeth Hamilton, * ... , + St. Omer ... June 1724], son of Sir William Parsons, 2nd Bart., of Bellamont, and of Catherine Jones.
No issue.


10 Rebecca Brydges, * ... , + ... , dau. of William Brydges, 7th Baron Chandos of Sudeley [number 5], and of Susan Kerr,
m. ... ,
Thomas Pride, * ... , + ... , son of Thomas Pride and of Elizabeth Monck.
Issue, if any, unknown (see note below).



Generation IV


11 Elizabeth Brownlow, * ... , + ... , dau. of William Brownlow and of Margaret Brydges [number 6],
m. ... ,
Philip Doughty, of Westminster, co. Midx., * ... , + ... 1710 [will dated 31 March 1710, prov. P.C.C. May following, bur. St. Martin's-in-the-Fields], son of ... Doughty and of ... .
Issue:
14 a. George Brownlow Doughty, * ... 1685, + ... 1743.
b. Anne Doughty, * ... , + ... [living and of age in 1710].
15 c. Elizabeth Doughty, * ... [living and under age in 1710], + ... .


12 George Brydges Skipwith, from 15 June 1710, Sir George Brydges Skipwith, 3rd Bart., of Metheringham, * ... 7 Nov. 1686 [bapt. St.-Giles-in-the-Fields 14 Nov. 1686], + ... 4 June 1756 [will dated 29 June 1729 to 22 Apr. 1738, pro. 18 Jan. 1759], son of Sir Thomas Skipwith, 2nd Bart., of Metheringham, and of Margaret Brydges [number 6],
m. ... [bef. 1741],
Martha Pitt, * ... , + ... 5 Aug. 1741, dau. of Robert Pitt, M. D., and of Martha Nourse.
No issue.


13 Lucy Loftus, * ... [ca. 1670, ae. 47 at death], + Aylesbury, co. Bucks., 5 Feb. 1716/7 [bur. Winchendon 14 Feb. 1716/7, will dated 9 Dec. 1715, pro. 20 Feb. 1716/7], dau. of Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne, and of Lucy Brydges [number 8],
m. ... July 1692, as his second wife,
Thomas Wharton, from ... [4 or 5] Feb. 1695/6, 5th Baron Wharton, created, 23 Dec. 1706, Earl of Wharton, created, 15 Feb. 1714/5, Marquess of Wharton, created, 12 Apr. 1715, Marquess of Catherlough, * ... Aug. [bapt. Watford, Herts, 23 Oct.] 1648, + in Dover St., London, 12 Apr. 1715 [bur. Winchendon 22 Apr. 1715, will dated 8 Apr. 1715, pro. 13 Sept. 1715], [he had m. (1) Atterbury, Oxon., 16 Sept. 1673, Anne Lee, * ... (bapt. Spelsbury, Oxon, 24 July 1659), + Adderbury, Oxon, 29 Oct. 1685 (bur. Winchendon 10 Nov. 1685)], son of Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton, and of Jane Goodwin.
Issue:
16 a. Philip Wharton, * ... [Alderbury or Ditchley, Oxon], ... [on or shortly bef. 21 Dec. 1698, bapt. 5 Jan. 1698/9], + Cistercian Abbey at Poblet, Catalonia, 31 May 1731 [bur. there 1 June 1731, will dated Court of Tarragona, in Catalonia, 1 Apr. 1731, pro. 7 Dec. 1736].
17 b. Jane Wharton, * ... 1706, + ... 4 Jan. 1761.
18 c. Lucy Wharton, * ... 1710, + Bath 2 Feb. 1738/9 [admon. 2 March 1738/9].



Generation V


14 George Brownlow Doughty, of Snarford Hall, co. Lincs., * ... 1685, + ... 1743 [administration granted 10 Apr. 1744], son of Philip Doughty and of Elizabeth Brownlow [number 11],
m. ... ,
Frances Cecily Tichborne, * ... [ca. 1693, ae. 72 at death], + ... 20 Aug. 1765, dau. of Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, 4th Bart., of Tichborne, and of Mary Kemp.
Issue includes (see note below):
19 a. Henry Doughty, * ... , + ... .


15 Elizabeth Doughty, * ... [living and under age in 1710], + ... , dau. of Philip Doughty and of Elizabeth Brownlow [number 11],
m. ... ,
Carrington Francis Turville, of Aston Flamville, co. Leics., * ... 9 March 1689/90, + ... 29 Oct. 1749, son of William Turville and of Frances Fortescue.
Issue:
a. George Turville, * ... [ae. 11 at death], + Bruxelles 5 Oct. 1735 [bur. in the church of the English nuns there]


16 Philip Wharton, ("Philip James" in his Will) from 12 Apr. 1715, 2nd Marquess of Wharton, created, 22 Dec. 1716 [by James III], Duke of Northumberland, created, 28 Jan. 1717/8, Duke of Wharton, outlawed 3 Apr. 1729, and all honours forfeited [outlawry reversed posthumously, 3 May 1845], * ... [Alderbury or Ditchley, Oxon], ... [on or shortly bef. 21 Dec. 1698, bapt. 5 Jan. 1698/9], + Cistercian Abbey at Poblet, Catalonia, 31 May 1731 [bur. there 1 June 1731, will dated Court of Tarragona, in Catalonia, 1 Apr. 1731, pro. 7 Dec. 1736], son of Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, and of Lucy Loftus [number 13],
m. (1) ... 2 March 1714/5,
Martha Holmes, * ... , + in Gerrard St., Soho, 14 Apr. 1726, dau. of Maj. Gen. Richard Holmes and of ... ,
m. (2) Madrid, 23 July 1726 [NS],
Mary Theresa O'Neill O'Beirne, * ... , + Golden Sq., London, 13 Feb. 1777 [bur. St. Pancras, Middlesex, 20 Feb. 1777, will dated 23 Dec. 1775, pro. 1 March and 28 July 1777], dau. of Col. Henry O'Beirne and of Henrietta O'Neill.
Issue by first wife:
a. Thomas Wharton, Marquess of Malmesbury, * ... [7 or 11, bapt. Winchendon 29] March 1718/9, + London 1 March 1719/20 [bur. Winchendon 4 March 1719/20].
Issue by second wife: none.


17 Jane Wharton, * ... 1706, + ... 4 Jan. 1761, dau. of Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, and of Lucy Loftus [number 13],
m. (1) ... 3 July 1723,
John Holt, of Redgrave, Suffolk, * ... , + ... [bef. 20 Feb. 1728/9], son of ... Holt and of ... ,
m. (2) ... 13 June 1733,
Robert Coke, of Longford, co. Derby, * ... , + ... , son of Edward Coke and of Carey Newton.
No issue.


18 Lucy Wharton, * ... 1710, + Bath 2 Feb. 1738/9 [admon. 2 March 1738/9], dau. of Thomas Wharton, 1st Marquess of Wharton, and of Lucy Loftus [number 13],
m. ... Sept. 1731, div. ... 1737, as his first wife,
William Morice, from 27 Jan. 1725/6, Sir William Morice, 3rd Bart., of Werrington, * ... [ca. 1707], + ... 24 Jan. 1749/50, [he later m. (2) ... (before 1741), Anne Berry, * ... , + ... 15 Feb. 1754], son of Sir Nicholas Morice, 2nd Bart., of Werrington, and of Catherine Herbert.
No issue.



Generation VI


19 Henry Doughty, of Snarford Hall, co. Lincs., * ... , + ... , son of George Brownlow Doughty [number 14] and of Frances Cecily Tichborne,
m. ... 1762,
Anne Maria Byrom, * ... , + ... , dau. of ... Byrom and of ... .
Issue:
a. Henry Doughty, of Snarford Hall, co. Lincs., * ... , + ... 1796.
b. Elizabeth Doughty, of Snarford Hall and Richmond Hill, co. Lincs., * ... 1763, + ... 1826.


NOTES




1 -- ODNB adds another daughter, Frances Brydges, who is said to have married an Edward Fortescue.



4 -- At the first battle of Newbury (2 Sept. 1643), in which he fought on the Royalist side, Lord Chandos had three horses shot under him, and was mainly instrumental in breaking the cavalry of the Parliamentarians. Charles I is said to have offered him the Earldom of Newbury, but Lord Chandos declined it until more peaceful times [Complete Peerage IX:520, note (b)]. Lord Chandos was convicted of manslaughter on 17 May 1653 for having mortally wounded Col. Henry Compton in a duel on Putney Heath on 13 May 1652.



5 -- "By and by comes my simple Lord Chandos, who began to sing Psalms, but so dully that I weary of it." [Pepys, Diary, 21 Dec. 1662]



10 -- From Ruvigny, Blood Royal of England, Table LXXXII, note 4: "According to Sanford, Rebecca, daughter and heiress of William, 7th Lord Chandos, left by her husband, Thomas Pride, a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth, who was wife of William Sherwin; but a pedigree relating to the claim of Elizabeth Sherwin as heir to Monk, Duke of Albemarle, states her to have been sister and not daughter of Thomas Pride, and the relict of John Gibbs before her marriage with Sherwin, which is the fact. The statement of Sandford is therefore erroneous."



13 -- In June 1682, Thomas Wharton (and others), while drunk, vandalized St. Mary's Church, Great Barrington, Gloucestershire. Wharton pissed against a communion table and did his other offices in the pulpit [ODNB].



14 -- Burke's Commoners III:285 refers to Charles Biddulph, esq. of Biddulph Hall in Staffordshire and of Burton Park in Suffolk, who died on 17 May 1784. His first wife died in 1763, and his second wife, by whom he had no issue, was "Frances-Appollonia, dau. of George Brownlow Doughty, esq. of Snarford Hall, Lincolnshire, and widow of Henry Wells, esq." See also Ruvigny Exeter, p. 285.

Similarly, Sir Thomas Mannock, 8th Bart., married, at St. George's, Queen's Square, 1 March 1756, as his first wife, Mary, daughter of George Brownlow Doughty of Snarford Hall. Sir Thomas died, without issue, on 2 Feb. 1781. See Cokayne's Complete Baronetage, II:25.



16 -- Lord Wharton's "profligacy [was] perhaps unparalleled in Augustan England" -- he was the founder and (from 1719 to 1723) chairman of the (original) "Hell-Fire Club"; he lost over £120,000 in the South Sea Bubble; and during the celebratory dinner "on his [second] wedding night he had become 'drunk early' and had 'produced, in the midst of the Grave Dons and their dames, what (to use his own expression) he told his bride she was to have that night in her Gutts' (PRO, State papers foreign, 78/184/230v), dispersing his wedding party in chaos." ODNB, which says "the salient features of his life remain those noticed by early biographers: reckless abandon seemingly driven by an utter inability for self-control and contemporary decorum, and a squandering of an undeniable stock of personal talent and an enormous fortune."




If, as seems likely, the descendants of Anne, Countess of Castlehaven, are in fact extinct, then the current heir of the body of Eleanor Brandon, younger niece of King Henry VIII, must be found among the descendants of Anne's next younger sister, Frances, Countess of Bridgwater. The descent is as follows:

Frances Stanley (1583-1636) m. c1607 John Egerton 1 E Bridgwater (1579-1649)
John Egerton 2 E Bridgwater (1623-1686) m. 1641 Elizabeth Cavendish (c1626-1663)
John Egerton 3 E Bridgwater (1646-1701) m. 1673 Jane Powlett (c1655-1716)
Scroop Egerton 1 D Bridgwater (1681-1701) m. 1703 Elizabeth Churchill (-1714)
Ann Egerton (-1762) m. 1733 William Villiers 3 E Jersey (-1769)
George Bussy Villiers 4 E Jersey (1735-1805) m. 1770 Frances Twysden (1753-1821)
George Villiers 5 E Jersey (1773-1859) m. 1804 Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867)
George Villiers 6 E Jersey (1808-1859) m. 1841 Julia Peel (1821-1893)
Victor Villiers 7 E Jersey (1845-1915) m. 1872 Margaret Leigh (1849-1945)
George Villiers 8 E Jersey (1873-1923) m. 1908 Cynthia Needham (1889-1947)
George Villiers 9 E Jersey (1910-1998) m. 1947 Bianca Mottironi
George Villiers Vct Villiers (1948-1998) m. 1974 % 1988 Sacha Valpy
William Villiers 10 E Jersey (b. 1976)

It appears that (1) a repeal of the Act of 1 Jac. I. c. 1 (which stated that James VI of Scotland succeeded as King of England and ex post facto overturned the succession as established by the Will of Henry VIII) and (2) the re-affirmation of the illegitimacy of the children of Katherine Grey, would effect, respectively, (1) the dis-union of the thrones of England and Scotland and (2) the accession of the Earl of Jersey as King of England, as the Earl of Jersey is the heir of the body of Frances, second daughter of Ferdinando Stanley, Earl of Derby, and (because of the presumed extinction in 1826 of the descendants of Anne, the eldest daughter) is thus the (presumed) heir of the body of Eleanor Brandon, Ferdinando's grandmother.

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