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80 SCARS DALE — SCHOMBERG. IV. 1 856. 4. Alfred Nathaniel Holden (Curzon) Baron Scahsdale [1761], also a Baronet [S. 1636] nephew and h. : being 2d but only surv. s. and h.{») of Rev. the Hon. Alfred CdbZON, Hector of Kedleston, by Sophia,"da. of Robert HoLDKN, of Nuttall Temple, co. Notts, which Alfred (who d. 12 Jan.' 18f>0 aged 48) was 2d a. of the 2d Baron, being the 1st s. by hia second wife. He was t. 12 July 1831 ; ed. at Rugby ami at Merton Coll., Oxford ; B.A. 185a ; M.A. 1865 ; took "holy orders() ; Rector of Kedlestou afsd. 1S56. He m. 3 July ]8f>6, Blanche, 2d da. of Joseph PockUHOTOS-SekBOUSH, farmtrlj/ POCKLINOTON, of Netherhall. co. Cumberland, by Elizabeth, 1st da. and coheir of Humphrey Sknhousr, of Netherhall afsd. She, who' was k 26 Sep. 1S37, d. 4 April 187;'., aged 37, at 14 Lower Berkeley street, from blood poisoning and typhoid, and was S«r. the nth at Kedleston. Family Estates.— These, in 18S3, consisted of 9,606 acres in Derbyshire, and 323 in Leicestershire. Total, 9,929 acres, worth £17,859 a year. Priueijml Hetideue-. Kedleston Hall, co. Derby. SCHOMBERG, or SCIIONBF.RO. Dukedom 1. Fredekic-Armand de SciioN'Rero,^') or ScHOMDERO, 1 1G89 Coii nt ofSchonbero.Babos of Lahkhskn and Altdobff in Germany, s. and b. of John Meinbardt, Count OF ScBuNBKRO, Grand Marshal of the Upper and Lower Palatinate (sometime Ambassador to England from the Elector Palatine 1 , by Anne. da. of Edward (Sutton), LORD Dum.KY, and Theodosia da. of Sir James Hauington. He was 4. Dec. lf$15,(*) and, after serving in Germany and Holland, under the Prince of Orange, entered the service of France in 1650 (being then a Col. in the Dutch army), and became Mfirecbal-de-camp, in the French army, in 1652. He was secret envoy on behalf of Charles II. to the Elector of Mcntz in Feb. 1652 ; was at the Siege of Valenciennes in July 1656. having charge of the masterly retreat of the French army therefrom ; was at the siege of Dunkirk in May, and at the battle of the Dunes in June 165S ; Capt. Gen. of the Scottish Gendarmes in France, &c. In 1660 he entered the service of Portugal against Spain, being in 1662 Gen. of the English forces there. I'nder his auspices was the action at Evora, 8 June 1663, at Castello Kodrigo 7 Aug. 1664, at Monte* Claras 17 June 1665, the capture of several towns, &c. He was cr, about July 1663 Count of Mehtola and a Grandee of Portugal, receiving a ( il ) His eldest br., George Nathaniel Curzon, d. warn , being killed by a fall from his horse, 17 June 1S55, aged 28. ( b ) Among temporal Peers in holy orders (1895) are the Marquess of Normanby, the Karl of Devon, the Earl Delaware, the Earl of Bessboroiigh [1.]. Viscount Moles- worth [I.], Lord Plunkett (Archbishop of Dublin), Lord Scarsdale, &c. ("j The name [" Fair Hill,"] of which the French form was Schomberg, is correctly spelt Schbnbere, and Bich is the fac-simile of the hist Duke's signature, given in Doyle. G. V. Watson states that the family of Sehonberg of Misnia (which produced two Marshals of France in the 1 7th century) is different from this family "which had its origin in the diocese of Treves," and which (tho' "its pedigree extends no further back than Frederic de Sehonberg, father of Meinbardt de Sehonberg, Mareschal de Camp to Henry IV., King of France, which Meiuhart was grandfather to the Duke), claimed a "descent from the Dukes of Clevea probably on account of the similarity of the arms," the arms of Sehonberg being Ary , an inescutebeou, sa, sur- mounted by an escarbuncle, or. In a pedigree (in the possession of Arthur •Schomberg, of Seend, co. Wilts), compiled from a book pub. at Leipsic about 1890 ou the House of Sehonberg (which deals, however, more particularly with the Saxon Schiiubergs), the Duke's pedigree is deduced from Cuno, Burgtave of Schiinberg over Wesel, who d. about 1272, from whom the said Frederic (who d. 1550, being the Duke's great grandfather) was 9th in descent. No connection is shewn therein with the Dukes of C'lcvee, or, indeed, with any other distinguished family. (") See the Carew letters (Camden Soc.) as to (1) his parents's marriage in Apiil 1615 (to which the writer, George, Lord Carew, adds that " Shomburge comes shortlye hither with a purse full of money to purchase lands in England " (2) 31 Dec. 1615, the death of his mother in childbed, and (3; Aug. 1616, the death of "Monsieur Shomberge," his father.