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Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC (28 December 1665 – 28 June 1716) was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II of England ('Charles the Black') by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine (also known as Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland); he was the fifth of Charles's eight ...
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George Fitzroy, Earl and Duke of Northumberland, was buried on 11th July 1716 in the vault of the Duke of Albemarle in the north aisle of Henry VII's chapel. A stone with names of those buried in this vault was added in 1869.
Duke of Northumberland Died: 28 June 1716 at Epsom, Surrey. George FitzRoy (alias Palmer) was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II, by Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine (alias Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland).
When George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland was born on 28 December 1665, in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, his father, King Charles II Stuart King of England and Scotland, was 35 and his mother, Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland, was 25.
George FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, an illegitimate son of king Charles II, was created Duke of Northumberland in the Peerage of England in 1683. He had already been created Baron of Pontefract , Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northumberland in 1674, also in the Peerage of England.
Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC (28 December 1665 – 28 June 1716) was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II of England ('Charles the Black') by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine (also known as Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland); he was the fifth of Charles's eight ...
George FitzRoy died ‘suddenly’ at Epsom on 28 June 1716, without issue. On the following 11 July his body was interred in Westminster Abbey. Since by that time the ‘Old Wells’ had been closed and the town was in decline as a spa, it is reasonable to assume that he had passed away during a visit to his brother in law Dutton.