Duke of Aubigny
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Dukedom of Aubigny | |
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King Louis XIV of France | |
Peerage | Peerage of France |
First holder | Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth |
Present holder | Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond |
Heir apparent | Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara |
Seat(s) | Goodwood House in England |
Former seat(s) | Château d'Aubigny in France |
Duke of Aubigny (
The ducal title, with accompanying grant of arms and of lands, were an attempt by Charles II to place his youngest illegitimate son into the persona of his much beloved and recently extinct Franco-Scottish cousins, the Stewart Seigneurs d'Aubigny, the last in the male line of whom was Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox (1639–1672) of Cobham Hall in Kent and of Richmond House in London.
During the
King James VI & I of Scotland and England (grandson of Robert II) united the senior royal line of Stewart (represented by his mother
History
The lord of the manor of Aubigny-sur-Nère, a substantial walled town, was known in France as the Seigneur d'Aubigny ("lord of Aubigny"). It was a territorial title rather than a peerage title, and thus was able to be given by a Seigneur to a younger son, where for example the elder son already had a great estate and titles.
The first ducal holder was Louise de Kérouaille, the French-born last mistress of King Charles II of England and Scotland. In 1684, at the request of Charles II, the French King Louis XIV created her "Duchess of Aubigny" in the
The English coat of arms of the Lennox Dukes of Richmond display an
The bordure gules charged with buckles or is a reference to the arms of Stewart of Bonkyll, who bore Stewart differenced by a bordure gules charged with buckles or (an example of canting arms: buckles for Bonkyl).
The
Stewart Seigneurs d'Aubigny
- John Stewart, 1st Lord of Aubigny(killed 1429)
- John Stewart, 2nd Lord of Aubigny(died 1482)
- Bernard Stewart, 3rd Lord of Aubigny(died 1508)
- Robert Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny (died 1543)
- John Stewart, 5th Lord of Aubigny (died 1567)[3]
- Esmé Stewart, 6th Lord of Aubigny (died 1583)[3]
- Esmé Stewart, 7th Lord of Aubigny (died 1624)[4]
- Henry Stewart, 8th Lord of Aubigny (died 1632)[5]
- George Stewart, 9th Lord of Aubigny (killed 1642)[5]
- Ludovic Stewart, 10th Lord of Aubigny (died 1665)[6]
- Charles Stewart, 11th Lord of Aubigny (died 1672)[6]
Lennox Dukes of Aubigny
- Louise de Kérouaille, 1st Duchess of Portsmouth, Duchess of Aubigny(1649-1734). Dukedom and Peerage extinct at her death.
- Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny (1672-1723), jointly with his mother Louise de Kéroualle.
- Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, 2nd Duke of Lennox (1701-1750). Only a "Brevet Duke" and not a Duke and Peer.
- Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, 3rd Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny (1734-1806). Restored to Peerage in 1777.
- Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny (1764-1819)
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond, 5th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny (1791-1860)
- Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, 6th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny, 1st Duke of Gordon (1818-1903)
- Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond, 7th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny, 2nd Duke of Gordon (1845-1928)
- Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny, 3rd Duke of Gordon (1870-1935)
- Frederick Charles Gordon-Lennox, 9th Duke of Richmond, 9th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny, 4th Duke of Gordon (1904-1989)
- Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 10th Duke of Richmond, 10th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny, 5th Duke of Gordon (1929-2017)
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 11th Duke of Richmond, 11th Duke of Lennox, Duke of Aubigny, 6th Duke of Gordon (b. 1955)
Family tree
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See also
Further reading
- Cust, Lady Elizabeth, Some Account of the Stuarts of Aubigny, in France, London, 1891 [2]
- G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, n.s., vol.VII, 1929, p. 602, note (e)