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Knight of the Order of the Garter. General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC (26 May 1650 – 16 June 1722 O.S. [a]) was an English soldier and statesman. From a gentry family, he served as a page at the court of the House of Stuart under James ...
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The First Churchills: With John Neville, Susan Hampshire, John Standing, Robert Robinson. The lives of John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough, and his wife Sarah.
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- 1971-01-10
- Biography, Drama, History
- 50
- Ashe House
- Early Military Experience
- From Martial to Marital Matters
- Plot and Exile
- Revolution
- War of The Grand Alliance
- Dismissal and Disgrace
- High Treason
- Reconciliation
- A New Grand Alliance
John’s parents were Winston and Elizabeth Churchill. During the English Civil War, Winston had fought for the King and, like so many other cavaliers, was forced to pay recompense; in his case £4,446. This crippling fine impoverished the ex-Royalist cavalry captain whose motto Fiel Pero Desdichado(Faithful but Unfortunate) is still today used by his...
Often accompanying the Duke inspecting the troops in the royal parks, John Churchill decided to pursue a military career. On September 14, 1667, soon after his seventeenth birthday, he obtained a commission as ensign in the King's Own Company in the 1st Guards, later to become the Grenadier Guards. In 1668, he sailed for the North African outpost o...
Sarah Jennings, a Maid of Honor to the Duchess of York, Mary of Modena, second wife to James, Duke of York, attracted Churchill’s interest when he returned from the Continent in 1675.. Sarah was then about 15, and Churchill appears to have been almost immediately captivated by her charms and not inconsiderable good looks. However, his amorous, almo...
The iniquities of the Popish Plot (Titus Oates' fabricated conspiracy aimed at excluding the Catholic Duke of York from the English accession), meant temporary banishment for James – an exile that would last nearly three years. Churchill was obliged to attend his master—who in due course was permitted to move to Scotland—but it was not until 1682, ...
When King Charles died in 1685, his brother succeeded him as King James II, much to the consternation of the bastard son of Charles and Lucy Walter, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. Urged on by various Whig conspirators (exiled for their part in the failed Rye House plot), Monmouth prepared to take what he considered rightfully his – the Protesta...
Less than six months after James' departure for the Continent, England declared war on France as part of a powerful coalition aimed at curtailing the ambitions of King Louis XIV; but although the War of the Grand Alliance lasted nine years (1688-1697), Marlborough saw only three years' service in the field, and then mostly in subordinate commands. ...
The refusal of a dukedom and the Order of the Garter, as well as failing to be appointed Master-General of the Ordnance, rankled with the ambitious earl; nor had Marlborough concealed his bitter disappointment behind his usual bland discretion. Using his influence in Parliament and the army, Marlborough aroused dissatisfaction concerning William's ...
The nadir of Marlborough's fortunes had not yet been reached. The spring of 1692 brought renewed threats of a French invasion and new accusations of Jacobite treachery. Acting on the testimony of Robert Young, the Queen had arrested all the signatories to a letter purporting the restoration of James II and the seizure of King William. Marlborough, ...
Mary's death by execution on January 7, 1695, eventually led to a formal, but cool, reconciliation between William and Anne, now heir to the throne. Marlborough hoped that the rapprochement would lead to his own return to office, but although he and Lady Marlborough were allowed to return to court, the earl received no offer of employment. In 1696 ...
When the infirm and childless King Charles II of Spain died on November 1, 1700, the succession of the Spanish throne, and subsequent control over her empire (including the Spanish Netherlands), again embroiled Europe in war – the War of the Spanish Succession. On his deathbed, Charles had bequeathed his domains to King Louis XIV's grandson, Philip...
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Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke. [1] [2]
- Churchill, Winston, Sir
- 1933
May 3, 2024 · John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough was one of England’s greatest generals, who led British and allied armies to important victories over Louis XIV of France, notably at Blenheim (1704), Ramillies (1706), and Oudenaarde (1708).
January 1, 1970. Shortly after leaving office he began his biography of his illustrious ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough which was published in four volumes between 1933 and 1938 (it was originally published in serial form in the Sunday Times in 1933).
Apr 4, 2018 · The battle was Blenheim, and the Englishman was John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Though destined to become arguably the greatest soldier of his time, John Churchill was born in 1650 under modest circumstances.
