Duke of Cleveland

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Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, with her son Charles FitzRoy, about 1664
William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland, about 1820

Duke of Cleveland was a hereditary British title of nobility , awarded once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Great Britain . The title is named after the Cleveland region in northern England.

Awards and subordinate titles

The title was first created on August 3, 1670 in the Peerage of England for Barbara Palmer , a mistress of King Charles II . Together with the Dukedom she was awarded the subordinate titles Countess of Southampton and Baroness Nonsuch , of Nonsuch in the County of Surrey . The titles were given to her with the special addition that they could also be passed on to their illegitimate son Charles FitzRoy . When he inherited her on her death in 1709, he had already been raised on September 10, 1675 in the Peerage of England to Duke of Southampton , Earl of Chichester and Baron Newbury , of Newbury in the County of Berks . The titles expired on the death of his son, the 3rd Duke of Cleveland, on May 18, 1774.

In second bestowal, the title was created on January 29, 1833 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for William Vane, 1st Marquess of Cleveland , a great-nephew of the last Duke's first bestowal, along with the subordinate title Baron Raby , of Raby Castle in the County of Durham. As early as 1792 he had inherited the titles Earl of Darlington and Viscount Barnard , both created in 1754 in the Peerage of Great Britain , and Baron Barnard , created in 1698 in the Peerage of England, from his father . On September 17, 1827, he was also raised to Marquess of Cleveland . The first duke was followed one after the other by his three sons, who, however, all died childless. When the 4th duke died on August 21, 1891, the dukedom and all subordinate titles were extinguished, with the exception of the barony of Barnard, which fell to a distant relative.

List of the Earls of Darlington

Dukes of Cleveland (1670)

Dukes of Cleveland (1833)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The London Gazette : 19013, 97 , January 15, 1833.
  2. ^ The London Gazette: No. 18397, p. 1955 , September 18, 1827.

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