Earl of Buckingham
Earl of Buckingham was a hereditary British title of nobility named after the city of Buckingham , Buckinghamshire , which was awarded several times in the Peerage of England .
Awards
The first award took place in 1097 to the Norman nobleman Walter Giffard , Lord of Longueville , but it expired again with the death of the second earl.
The second award probably dates back to 1164, now to Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ("Strongbow"), who had inherited the Earldom Pembroke in 1148 . In 1176 he died with no offspring.
On July 16, 1377, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Essex , became the youngest son of King Edward III. appointed Earl of Buckingham . He had been Earl of Essex since 1376 and was raised to Duke of Gloucester on August 6, 1385 . He was arrested in 1397 for high treason and murdered in custody. All of his titles were stripped from him, with the exception of the title Earl of Buckingham which his son Humphrey Plantagenet inherited. When he died two years later without any descendants, the earliest dignity also expired.
In the fourth award, the title was newly created on January 5, 1617 for George Villiers, 1st Viscount Villiers . As early as August 27, 1616 he had been raised to Viscount Villiers and Baron Whaddon, of Whaddon in the County of Bucks . On January 1, 1618 he was raised to Marquess of Buckingham and on May 18, 1623 Duke of Buckingham and Earl of Coventry . With the death of his younger son, the 2nd duke, in 1687, his titles lapsed.
Parallel to the fourth award, a fifth award took place on July 1, 1618 in favor of the widowed mother of the 1st Earl fourth award, namely Mary Villiers , but this time only for life ( Life Peerage ) and no possibility of inheriting the title.
List of the Earls of Buckingham
Earls of Buckingham (1097), first award
- Walter Giffard, 1st Earl of Buckingham († 1102)
- Walter Giffard, 2nd Earl of Buckingham († 1164)
Earls of Buckingham (1164), second bestowal
- Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , 1st Earl of Buckingham († 1176)
Earls of Buckingham (1377), third bestowal
- Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester , 1st Earl of Buckingham († 1397)
- Humphrey Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Buckingham († 1399)
Earls of Buckingham (1617), fourth award
- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham , 1st Earl of Buckingham (1592–1628)
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , 2nd Earl of Buckingham (1628–1687)
Earls of Buckingham (1618, Life Peerage), fifth bestowal
- Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham (1570-1632)
Impostor (1983)
In 1983, Charles Stopford , a former US soldier, took the false name of Christopher Edward Buckingham and called himself Lord Buckingham . The media falsely reported that he had assumed the title of Earl of Buckingham. The fraud was discovered in 2005 and Stopford was convicted of "providing false information in order to obtain British identification documents".
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ BBC News (2006) Baby name fraudster is US citizen , accessed June 23, 2007