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See also:CHARLES See also:BLOUNT , See also:earl of See also:Devonshire and 8th See also:Baron See also:Mountjoy (1563—16o6), See also:lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland, See also:grandson of the pre-ceding, was the most notable of the later holders of the See also:title. The favour which his youthful See also:good looks procured for him from See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth excited the See also:jealousy of the earl of See also:Essex, and led to a See also:duel between the two courtiers, who, however, soon became See also:close See also:friends. Between 1586 and 1598 he was much on the See also:continent, serving in the See also:Netherlands and in See also:Brittany. He joined Essex and See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh in their expedition to the See also:Azores in 1597, his See also:brother, Sir See also:Christopher Blount (1565—16o1), who was afterwards executed for complicity in Essex's See also:treason, being also of the party. In 1600 Mountjoy went to Ireland as lord See also:deputy in See also:succession to Essex, where he succeeded in suppressing the See also:rebellion of See also:Hugh O'See also:Neill. earl of See also:Tyrone, whom Essex had failed to subdue. In See also:July 16ot Mountjoy made himself See also:master of Lough Foyle, and in the following See also:December he defeated O'Neill's See also:Spanish auxiliaries at See also:Kinsale, and drove them out of the See also:country. In 1602 the earl of Tyrone made his submission to Mountjoy in See also:Dublin. (see O'NEILL); and on the See also:accession of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. Mountjoy was continued in his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office with the more distinguished title of lord-lieutenant. Returning to See also:England, he was one of Sir Walter Raleigh's See also:judges in 1603; and in the same See also:year he was made master of the See also:ordnance and created earl of Devonshire, extensive estates being also granted to him. He died in See also:London on the 3rd of See also:April 16o6. About 1590 Mountjoy took as his See also:mistress See also:Penelope, wife of Lord See also:Rich and See also:sister of the earl of Essex. After the See also:death of her brother in 16o,, See also:Lady Rich was divorced from her See also:husband in the ecclesiastical courts. Mountjoy, by whom she had already had several See also:children, was married to the lady in 16o5 by his See also:chaplain, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Laud, afterwards See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury. As he See also:left no legitimate children the earl's titles became See also:extinct at his death.
His eldest natural son by Lady Rich, MOUNTJOY BLOUNT (c. 1597—1666), inherited a large See also:property by his See also:father's will, and was a favourite with James I. The See also:family title was revivedin his favour in 1618, when he was created Baron Mountjoy, of Mountjoy Fort, Co. Tyrone, in the See also:peerage of Ireland; and Baron Mountjoy of Thurveston, See also:Derbyshire, in the peerage of England. In 1628 he was further created earl of See also:Newport in the Isle of See also:Wight. In the same year he was appointed to command, with the See also:rank of See also:rear-See also:admiral, the expedition for the See also:relief of Rochelle; in 1634 he was made master of the ordnance.. He took the popular See also:side at the beginning of the trouble between Charles I. and the See also:parliament, and was an eager opponent of See also:Strafford. When the See also:Civil See also:War See also:broke out, however, Newport served in the royalist See also:army, and took See also:part in the second See also:battle of See also:Newbury in 1644. In See also:January 1646 he was taken prisoner and confined in London on See also:parole. He died at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford on the 12th of See also:February 1666, leaving two surviving sons, who in turn succeeded to the earldom of Newport and See also:barony of Mountjoy. Both titles became extinct on the death of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, the younger of these sons, in 1681.
In 1683 SIR WILLIAM See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
STEWART (1653-1692), who owned large property in the counties of See also:Donegal and Tyrone, and whose grandfather was created a See also:baronet in 1623, was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Baron Stewart of Ramelton, Co. Donegal, and See also:Viscount Mountjoy. Having served abroad, Mountjoy returned to Ireland in 1687, where he became brigadier-See also:general. At the revolution he remained loyal to James II.; but being a See also:Protestant he was distrusted by Tyrconnel; the See also:viceroy, and was removed with his troops from See also:Londonderry to Dublin. When the See also:gates of Londonderry were closed against James's representative, Tyrconnel sent Mountjoy and See also:Robert See also:Lundy with a force to the See also:north. After negotiations which resulted in Lundy being admitted as See also:governor to the See also:city, Mountjoy was sent with Sir See also:Stephen See also:Rice to See also:Paris to See also:report on the See also:state of affairs to James II. On their arrival, Rice acting on See also:secret instructions, denounced Mountjoy as a traitor, and the latter was thrown into the See also:Bastille, where he remained till 1692. He then went over to William III., and was killed at Steinkirk on the 3rd of See also:August 1692.
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