Duke of Manchester
Dukedom of Manchester | |
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Creation date | 13 April 1719 |
Created by | King George I |
Peerage | Peerage of Great Britain |
First holder | Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester |
Present holder | Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke |
Subsidiary titles |
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Former seat(s) |
Duke of Manchester is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain, and the current senior title of the House of Montagu. It was created in 1719 for the politician Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester. Manchester Parish in Jamaica was named after the 5th Duke, while its capital Mandeville was named after his son and heir. The current Duke is Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester, a controversial British and Australian citizen who lives in the United States and has served several prison sentences. He succeeded to the peerage in 2002[1] following the death of his father Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, the last of the dukes to hold a seat in the House of Lords.
History
Their ancestor was Richard Ladde, grandfather of the Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward, who changed his name to Montagu around 1447. His descendants claimed a connection with the older house of Montagu or Montacute, Barons Montagu or Montacute and Earls of Salisbury, but there is no sound evidence that the two families were related. A case has been made out for the possibility that the Ladde alias came from a division among coheirs about 1420 of the remaining small inheritance of a line of Montagus at Spratton and Little Creton, also in Northamptonshire.[2]
The judge Sir Edward Montagu's grandson,
His son, the
His eldest son, the 7th Duke, was
Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester was the last of the dukes to serve in the House of Lords, until the adoption of the House of Lords Act 1999.
Alexander Montagu, the oldest son of the 12th Duke, succeeded his father as the 13th Duke in July 2002; a British and Australian citizen who lives in the United States, he had been known by the courtesy title of the heir apparent, Viscount Mandeville, since his father's succession to the peerage in 1985.[1][6][7] He has not taken the required action to be included on the Roll of the Peerage, which was created two years after his succession in 2004; while this doesn't change his status as a duke itself, which is legally established by the letters patent, inclusion in the roll is since 2004 a requirement to have his title included in his passport. Under the provisions of the 2004 royal warrant he may register with the roll at any time.[8]
Seats
The principal estate of the Dukes of Manchester was Kimbolton Castle. It was leased, together with 50 acres (20 ha) of parkland, by the 10th Duke in 1951, and is now a private school. A remaining 3,250 acres (1,320 ha) of the estate were sold by his eldest son and heir in 1975. The other family seat was Tandragee Castle, in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was sold in 1955, and the remaining estate in 1975, and is now the headquarters of Tayto (NI) Ltd.[5]
Arms
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The arms of the Duke of Manchester have the following blazon: Quarterly, 1st & 4th: Argent, 3 fusils conjoined in fess gules (Montagu); 2nd & 3rd: Or an eagle displayed vert beaked and membered gules (Monthermer).[11] The fusils or diamond shapes in the Montagu arms were originally intended to represent a range of mountains,[12] as the name comes from the old French mont agu meaning "pointed hill".[13] The arms represent a claim to be a cadet of the medieval Montagu (Montacute) family, earls of Salisbury, for which there is no proof (see above origins).
Titles
The Duke of Manchester holds the subsidiary titles Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton.
The
Burial place
Many members of the Montagu family (Earls and Dukes of Manchester and their family members) are buried at St Andrew's Church, Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire (historically in Huntingdonshire). Several Montagu monuments still exist in the South Chapel, while the Montagu Vault (extended in 1853) is located beneath the North Chapel. The Montagu Vault is accessed from the churchyard via a doorway surmounted by heraldic beasts, which was added to the building in 1893.[15] The 12th Duke of Manchester, who died in 2002, was cremated at Bedford Crematorium after which his ashes were placed in the Montagu Vault.
Viscount Mandeville (1620)
Created by James I of England
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# | Name | Life span | Period | Spouse | Notes | Other titles |
1 | Henry Montagu | c. 1563 – 1642 | 1620–1642 | (1) Catherine Spencer (2) Anne Halliday, née Wincot (3) Margaret Crouch |
Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
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Earls of Manchester (1626)
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# | Name | Life span | Period | Spouse | Notes | Other titles |
1 | Henry Montagu | c. 1563 – 1642 | 1626–1642 | (1) Catherine Spencer (2) Anne Halliday, née Wincot (3) Margaret Crouch |
Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
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2 | Edward Montagu | 1602–1671 | 1642–1671 | (2) Lady Anne Rich | Son of the preceding | |
3 | Robert Montagu | 1634–1683 | 1671–1683 | Anne Yelverton | Son of the preceding | |
4 | Charles Montagu | c. 1662 – 1722 | 1683–1722 | Dodington Greville | Son of the preceding |
Dukes of Manchester (1719)
Created by George I of Great Britain | ||||||
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# | Name | Life span | Period | Spouse | Notes | Other titles |
1 | Charles Montagu | c. 1662 – 1722 | 1719–1722 | Dodington Greville | Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
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2 | William Montagu | 1700–1739 | 1722–1739 | Lady Isabella Montagu | Son of the preceding | |
3 | Robert Montagu | 1710–1762 | 1739–1762 | Harriet Dunch | Brother of the preceding | |
4 | George Montagu | 1737–1788 | 1762–1788 | Elizabeth Dashwood | Son of the preceding | |
5 | William Montagu | 1771–1843 | 1788–1843 | Lady Susan Gordon | Son of the preceding | |
6 | George Montagu | 1799–1855 | 1843–1855 | (1) Millicent Sparrow (2) Harriet Sydney Dobbs |
Son of the preceding | |
7 | William Montagu | 1823–1890 | 1855–1890 | Countess Louisa of Alten | Son of the preceding | |
8 | George Montagu | 1853–1892 | 1890–1892 | Consuelo Yznaga | Son of the preceding | |
9 | William Montagu | 1877–1947 | 1892–1947 | (1) Helena Zimmerman (2) Kathleen Dawes |
Son of the preceding | |
10 | Alexander Montagu | 1902–1977 | 1947–1977 | (1) Nell Vere Stead (2) Elizabeth Fullerton |
Son of the preceding | |
11 | Sidney Montagu | 1929–1985 | 1977–1985 | (1) Adrienne Valerie Christie (2) Andrea Joss |
Son of the preceding | |
12 | Angus Montagu | 1938–2002 | 1985–2002 | (1) Mary Eveleen McClure (2) Diane Pauline Plimsaul (3) Anne-Louise Taylor (4) Biba Jennians |
Brother of the preceding | |
13 | Alexander Montagu[a] | b. 1962 | 2002–present | (1) Marion Stoner (2) Wendy Dawn Buford (3) Laura Smith |
Son of the preceding |
The heir presumptive to the dukedom is the present Duke's younger brother, Lord Kimble William Drogo Montagu (born 1964), whose heir is his only son William Anthony Drogo Montagu (born 2000).[16]
- ^ The 13th Duke of Manchester succeeded to the peerage in 2002,[1] but as of July 2022[update] does not appear on the Roll of the Peerage. To be legally recognised as a Peer in official documents, he must prove his succession and be placed on the Roll.[8]
Family tree
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References
- ^ a b c "Duke of Manchester to remain in Las Vegas jail". The Guardian. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ISBN 9780712667241.
The explanation of a fifteenth century yeoman's Norman name might sometimes be female descent from a knightly house through a coheir. The Montagus of Boughton, Northhamptonshire, who acquired a barony in 1621, an earldom in 1689, the dukedom of Montagu in 1705, and in their younger branches the earldom of Manchester in 1626, the dukedom of Manchester in 1719, and the earldom of Sandwich in 1660, descended from Richard Montagu alias Ladde, a yeoman or husbandman, living in 1471 at Hanging Houghton, Northamptonshire, where the Laddes had been tenants since the fourteenth century. Alias names, in some respect the forerunners of modern compound (or double-barreled) name, were common in the Middle Ages. In the earliest times, when surnames were new, an alias may just mean indecision between equally attractive alternatives. Later they sometimes indicate bastardy (one name perhaps being the father's and one the mother's), but in most cases probably mark inheritance through an heiress whose name was thus perpetuated. A good case has been made out for the possibility that the Ladde alias came from a division among coheirs about 1420 of the remaining small inheritance of a line of Montagus at Spratton and Little Creton, also in Northamptonshire. This line was of knightly origin and probably a branch of the baronial Montagus (Earls of Salisbury from 1337), whose almost certain ancestor Dru de Montagud was a tenant-in-chief in 1086. Other yeoman Montagus are found in Buckinghamshire from 1354 when Roger Montagu appears as a witness to a quitclaim of land in Great Kimble, notably in Halton where a family of Montagu alias Elot held land from about 1440 to 1610. A line of Montagus found in Waddesdon from about 1540 may have branched from these. These in the eighteenth century were shepherds and drovers and one set up in Aylesbury as a wheelwright and another as a tailor. Another line, also possibly branched from Halton, is found at Boveney and Dorney in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This produced Richard Montagu, Bishop of Chichester (1628–38) and Norwich (1638–41), and Peter Montagu, who settled in Virginia.
- ISBN 9780712667241.
- ISBN 9780851154237.
- ^ ISBN 9781843541240.
- ^ "Australian man with British title to stay jailed in Vegas". Associated Press. 31 August 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ "The bigamist Duke and his three wives". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Roll of the Peerage". College of Arms. 8 July 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2023.
Under the terms of the Royal Warrant of 1 June 2004 any person who succeeds to a Peerage must prove his or her succession and be placed on the Roll, otherwise that person may not be legally recognised as a Peer in official documents.
- ^ Boutell, Charles (1914). The Handbook to English Heraldry. London: Reeves & Turner. p. 16. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ "Last name: Montague". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, Montagu of Beaulieu (original form of), p.788
- ^ Boutell, Charles (1914). The Handbook to English Heraldry. London: Reeves & Turner. p. 16. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ "Last name: Montague". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ "Courtesy Titles". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ Guided Tour of St Andrew's Church, Kimbolton, access date 27 July 2015
- ISBN 978-1-999767-0-5-1.
Further reading
- Kidd, Charles, and Williamson, David (editors): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1990 edition. New York, St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]
- McNeill, Ronald John (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 543–544.