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KENDAL. " PrIXCE RUPERT fDuKE OF RavaHIa], CoUN'T PALATINE OF THE Kihnp." wa , n: 24 Jan. 1643/4, EARL OP HQLDERNESS, co. York, and DUKE OK CU>fBERLAND.(«| It is often stated (tho' apparently in error that in the same patent lie was er. BARON OF KENDAL, co. Westmorland All hi* honours became; extinct 29 Nov. 1682. Dukedom. Charles Stuart, 3d but 2<1 surv. s. of James, Duke of I. 1666 York (afterward! King .lames II. 1 by his first wife, Anne, da. of ti) ' Edward (Hyde), Earl OP Clarendon, was b. 4 July IGtib' at St. .Tames Palace, and bap. there, his (bastard) cousin, the Poke of ■ ■ Monmouth, l>ein? one of his godparents. He was dtttgmted Hoke of Kendall 1 ' ', and is said to have been re, BARON OF HOLDENBY, co. Northampton, EARL OF WIG MORE and DUKE OP KENDAL(«). He d. aped 10 months at St. James Palace 22 Hay 1067, aud was bur. the 30th at West- minster Abbey, when all his honours became extinct. George, Purees of Denmark, whs or. 0 April 1G89 BARON OCKINGRAJr, co. Berks, EARL OF KENDAL, co. West- morland, and DUKE OF CUMBERLAND. He d. s.p. 28 Oct 170S, when all his kotvntri became exlinci. See fuller account under " Cumberland " Dukedom, a: 1488; c.c. 170S. ErtMEXfHRDE MELCSINA.r.AROXESS Vox DER SCHUI.EXBKUC in Germany, sister of Frederic Achatius, Count Vox dbr SoHOLESDgio Axn HKnr.EV, and <la. of Oustavus Adolphus, Baron Vox peii Schui.en- iskko, P.O. to the Elector of Brandenbnrg, was 6. loi9 ; became Maid of Honour to the Eteetress, Sophia of Hanover, to whose son George, afterwards King Seorge L, she was mistress( d ) from an early age to his death, accompanying him to England, and bein? w. 18 July 1716, BARONESS OF DCJDALK, COUNTESS AND MARCHIONESS OF PUN- <! NNON. and DUCHESS OF MUNSTER [L] for her life, and 19 March 1719 BARONESS GLASTONBURY, co. Somerset, COUNTESS OF FEVERSHAM, and DUCHESS OF KENDAL, also for her life. She was also cr. bv the Emperor of Germany, 1 Jan. 1723, PRINCESS OF EBERSTEIN. She, who resided chiefly at (") See "Creations, 1483 — 16-10 " in ap. -17th Rep. D.K. Pub. Records. ( h ) There is no enrolment of any Patent of the Dukedom of Kendal, but his coffin plate has this inscription " Depnsitum illustrissimi Principis. Caroli, Ducis Coiidaliic, .n.c " See also Grant Books (Chancery Calendars) 23, fo. 263. ( u i Of the 5 elder sons (4 by the first wife and 1 by the second) of the Duke of York Call of whom died in infancy before he came to the throne) no less that four were designated Duke* of Cunhridie ; but for this sun. who (only) was boru in the lifetime of an elder brother, another title (Kendal) had to be found. ( d ) She was the most important of the many mistresses of Kin? George I, Four of these are mentioned by De Beaucaire in his " Une mesial! iancc daw la mal-ion ds .BrunsicH;" p. 123, as having been publicly recognised, viz., (1) al m ° DK Weyhb, i.e., •' Leonore de Meyaebug-Ziisohen, veuve d'un Chambellau de la Cour de Hanorre, AT. de Busschc, et niariee, en secondes noe;s, an Lieutenant Genera! de Weyhe," the said lady being sister to "Clara Elizabeth de Meysebu?-ZiiscUcn, Comtesse de Platen," who exercised the same vocation to the King'afather, Ernest Augustus, towhom her husband wis prime minister [2) " Hennengarde MelusinedeSchnlembourg, after- wards Duchess ol- KeniaIj ; (8) "La Comtesse de Kielmansegge," it, "Sophie- Charlotte, fille de Francois Ernest, Comte de Platen, et de Clara Elizabeth de Meysehug, marieo, en 1701 a Jean Adolph, Baron, p'lis Comte, de Kielmanaegge, "which lady was er. Countess of D.uu.inqtoN ; (4) "La jeune OOMTBSS db, Platen, n6e d'UEfelu," i.e.. "Sophie Caroline Eve Antoinette, Baronne D'Uffeln mairea en 1697 a Ernest Augusta, Comte de Platen, tils de Francois Ernest, et D'Elizabeth de Meysbug.counseillcr intime et grand maitre de pastes a Hauovre. ' Earldom. IV. 1688, to 1708. Dukedom, IL 1719, to 1743.