On this Day in History ... 16th October

16 Oct is in October.

1485 Coronation of Henry VII

1551 Arrest of the Duke of Somerset and his Supporters

1555 Execution of Bishops

1660 Trial and Execution of the Regicides

1665 Great Plague of London

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Events on the 16th October

Florence of Worcester. Moreover, on Friday the sixteenth of the calends of November [16 Oct 1091] a violent whirlwind from the south-west shook and demolished more than six hundred houses and a great number of churches in London. Rushing through the church of St. Mary, called "le Bow," [Map] it killed two men, and tearing up the roof and timbers, and whirling them for a long time to and fro in the air, at last drove six of the rafters, in the same order in which they were before fixed in the roofs, so deep into the earth that only the seventh or eighth part of them was visible, although they were twenty-seven or twenty-eight feet long.

Calendars. 16 Oct 1313. Westminster.

Pardon to Thomas, Earl of Lancaster (age 35), and his adherents, followers, and confederates, of all causes of anger, indignation, suits, accusations, &c, arisen in any manner on account of Peter de Gavaston, from the time of the king's marriage with his dear companion Isabella, whether on account of the capture, detention, or death of Peter de Gavaston, or on account of any forcible entries into any towns or castles, or any sieges of the same; or on account of having borne arms, or of having taken any prisoners, or of having entered into any confederacies whatever, or in any other manner touching or concerning Peter de Gavaston, or that which befel him. French. [Fœdera: Parl. Writs.]

The like, word for word, to the under-mentioned persons, adherents of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, for the death of Peter de Gavaston, viz.-

Humphrey de Bohun (age 37), Earl of Hereford and Essex.

Guy de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (age 41).

Henry de Percy (age 40).

Robert de Clyfford (age 39).

John Boteturte (age 48).

Robert de Holand.

Griffith de la Pole.

John de Heselarton.

Alexander de Cave.

Thomas le fiz Johan de Heselarton.

Robert de Stepelton.

Jordan de Dalden.

Robert le Conestable of Halsham.

William du Lunde and Thomas le fiz Phelip le Mareschal of Milford.

William Trussel.

William de Dacre (age 47).

William de Holand (age 60).

William la Zusche of Haringworthe (age 48).

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On 16 Oct 1430 King James II of Scotland was born to King James I of Scotland (age 36) and Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland (age 26). He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.

On 16 Oct 1485 Philibert Chandee 1st Earl Bath was created 1st Earl Bath at Tower of London [Map] by King Henry VII of England and Ireland (age 28) for having supported Henry's claim to the throne.

On 16 Oct 1514 Richard de la Bere died. Brass. Figures of man in plate armour with head on helm, and of two wives in pedimental head-dresses with long girdles, groups of four daughters and one son of first wife and ten sons and six daughters of second wife, names of two daughters, three shields-of-arms. South East Transept of Hereford Cathedral [Map].

Richard de la Bere: Before 1498 he and Anne Tuchet were married. One son, four daughters. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry III of England. After 1503 he and Elizabeth Mores were married. Ten sons, six daughters.

Diary of Edward VI. 16 Oct 1550. Removing to Whestmuster.

Annales of England by John Stow. 16 Oct 1551. The 16, of October, Edward Seimer Duke of Somerset (age 51), the Lord Gray of Wilton (age 42), Sir Ralph Vane, Sir Thomas Palmer, Sir Myles Partridge, Sir Michael Stanhope (age 44), Sir Thomas Arundell (age 49) knightes, and divers other Gentlemen, were brought to the Tower of London [Map]. The next morrowe, the Dutchesse of Somerset (age 54) was also brought to the Tower [Map].

The liberties of the Stilpard [Map] were ceased into the kings hands for divers causes forfeited, contrarie to the enter-course.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 Oct 1551. The xvj day of October was had to the Towre the duches of Somersett (age 54) and Sir Raff a Vane and Sir John Thyn (age 36), [as also] Sir Thomas Holcroft (age 46), Sir Michael Stanhope (age 44), Mr. Hammond, Mr. John Seimour (age 24), Mr. Walley, Mr. Nudigate, Mr. Banister, Mr. Brayne, Mr. Crane and his wife, Sir Myles Parterege, and Sir Thomas Arundell (age 49) and Lady (age 36).

On 16 Oct 1551 the King's (age 14) uncle Edward Seymour 1st Duke of Somerset (age 51) was arrested for having conspired to commit murder at the banquet. He was acquitted of treason, but convicted of felony for raising a contingent of armed men without a licence. He was executed three months later.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 Oct 1555. [The same day were burnt at Oxford for heresy doctor Latimer (age 68), late bishop of Worcester, and doctor Ridley (age 55),] late bysshope of London; [they were some] tyme grett prychers as ever was; and at ther bornyng dyd pryche doctur Smyth, sum-tyme the master of Vetyngtun colege (blank).

On 16 Oct 1555 Bishop Hugh Latimer (age 68) and Bishop Nicholas Ridley (age 55) were burned at the stake at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map]. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (age 66) was forced to watch.

On 16 Oct 1609 Dorothea Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (age 22) died in childbirth.

On 16 Oct 1619 the will of Robert "The Elder" Peake (deceased) was proved.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1660. This morning my brother Tom (age 26) came to me, with whom I made even for my last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with him in the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a play at the Cockpit [Map] this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wife staid at home, and he and I went out together, with whom I called at the upholsters and several other places that I had business with, and so home with him to the Cockpit [Map], where, understanding that "Wit without money" was acted, I would not stay, but went home by water, by the way reading of the other two stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like so well as it. Being come home, Will. told me that my Lord had a mind to speak with me to-night; so I returned by water, and, coming there, it was only to enquire how the ships were provided with victuals that are to go with him to fetch over the Queen (age 50), which I gave him a good account of. He seemed to be in a melancholy humour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for that he had lately lost a great deal of money at cards, which he fears he do too much addict himself to now-a-days. So home by water and to bed.

On 16 Oct 1660 Hugh Peter (age 62) and John Cook (age 52) were hanged, drawn and quartered at Charing Cross [Map].

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1662. Then to my Lord Sandwich (age 37) by water, and told him how well things do go in the country with me, of which he was very glad, and seems to concern himself much for me.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1662. Thence with Mr. Creed to Westminster Hall [Map], and by and by thither comes Captn. Ferrers, upon my sending for him, and we three to Creed's chamber, and there sat a good while and drank chocolate. Here I am told how things go at Court; that the young men get uppermost, and the old serious lords are out of favour; that Sir H. Bennet (age 44), being brought into Sir Edward Nicholas's place, Sir Charles Barkeley (age 32) is made Privy Purse; a most vicious person, and one whom Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, to-day (at which I laugh to myself), did tell me that he offered his wife £300 per annum to be his mistress. He also told me that none in Court hath more the King's ear now than Sir Charles Barkeley (age 32), and Sir H. Bennet (age 44), and my Baroness Castlemaine's (age 21), whose interest is now as great as ever and that Mrs. Haslerigge1, the great beauty, is got with child, and now brought to bed, and lays it to the King (age 32) or the Duke of York (age 29)2. He tells me too that my Lord St. Albans' is like to be Lord Treasurer: all which things do trouble me much. Here I staid talking a good while, and so by water to see Mr. Moore, who is out of bed and in a way to be well, and thence home, and with ComMr. Pett (age 52) by water to view Wood's masts that he proffers to sell, which we found bad, and so to Deptford, Kent [Map] to look over some businesses, and so home and I to my office, all our talk being upon Sir J. M. and Sir W. B.'s base carriage against him at their late being at Chatham, Kent [Map], which I am sorry to hear, but I doubt not but we shall fling Sir W. B. upon his back ere long.

Note 1. TT. Not clear which Mrs Haselbrigge this refers to. There are two possible Mrs Haselrigge's but neither appear to have married their resppective Haselrigge husbands before 1664: Elizabeth Fenwick (age 37) and Bridget Rolle.

Note 2. The child was owned by neither of the royal brothers. B.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1662. I hear Mr. Moore is in a way of recovery. Sir H. Bennet (age 44) made Secretary of State in Sir Edward Nicholas's stead; not known whether by consent or not.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1664. Lord's Day. It raining, we set out, and about nine o'clock got to Hatfield, Hertfordshire in church-time; and I 'light and saw my simple Lord Salsbury (age 73) sit there in his gallery.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1665. Thence after dinner receiving many commands from the Duke (age 56), I to our office on the Hill, and there did a little business and to Colvill's again, and so took water at the Tower [Map], and there met with Captain Cocke (age 48), and he down with me to Greenwich, Kent [Map], I having received letters from my Lord Sandwich (age 40) to-day, speaking very high about the prize goods, that he would have us to fear nobody, but be very confident in what we have done, and not to confess any fault or doubt of what he hath done; for the King (age 35) hath allowed it, and do now confirm it, and sent orders, as he says, for nothing to be disturbed that his Lordshipp hath ordered therein as to the division of the goods to the fleete; which do comfort us, but my Lord writes to me that both he and I may hence learn by what we see in this business. But that which pleases me best is that Cocke (age 48) tells me that he now understands that Fisher was set on in this business by the design of some of the Duke of Albemarle's (age 56) people, Warcupp and others, who lent him money to set him out in it, and he has spent high. Who now curse him for a rogue to take £100 when he might have had as well £1,500, and they are mightily fallen out about it. Which in due time shall be discovered, but that now that troubles me afresh is, after I am got to the office at Greenwich, Kent [Map] that some new troubles are come, and Captain Cocke's (age 48) house is beset before and behind with guards, and more, I do fear they may come to my office here to search for Cocke's (age 48) goods and find some small things of my clerk's. So I assisted them in helping to remove their small trade, but by and by I am told that it is only the Custome House men who came to seize the things that did lie at Mr. Glanville's (age 47), for which they did never yet see our Transire, nor did know of them till to-day. So that my fear is now over, for a transire is ready for them. Cocke (age 48) did get a great many of his goods to London to-day.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1665. Thence I walked to the Tower [Map]; but, Lord! how empty the streets are and melancholy, so many poor sick people in the streets full of sores; and so many sad stories overheard as I walk, every body talking of this dead, and that man sick, and so many in this place, and so many in that. And they tell me that, in Westminster, there is never a physician and but one apothecary left, all being dead; but that there are great hopes of a great decrease this week: God send it!

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1665. To the Still Yarde [Map], which place, however, is now shut up of the plague; but I was there, and we now make no bones of it. Much talke there is of the Chancellor's (age 56) speech and the King's at the Parliament's meeting, which are very well liked; and that we shall certainly, by their speeches, fall out with France at this time, together with the Dutch, which will find us work. Late at the office entering my Journall for 8 days past, the greatness of my business hindering me of late to put it down daily, but I have done it now very true and particularly, and hereafter will, I hope, be able to fall into my old way of doing it daily.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1665. Up about seven o'clock; and, after drinking, and I observing Mr. Povy's (age 51) being mightily mortifyed in his eating and drinking, and coaches and horses, he desiring to sell his best, and every thing else, his furniture of his house, he walked with me to Syon [Map]1, and there I took water, in our way he discoursing of the wantonnesse of the Court, and how it minds nothing else, and I saying that that would leave the King (age 35) shortly if he did not leave it, he told me "No", for the King (age 35) do spend most of his time in feeling and kissing them naked... But this lechery will never leave him.

Note 1. Sion House [Map], granted by Edward VI to his uncle, the Duke of Somerset. After his execution, 1552, it was forfeited, and given to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. The duke being beheaded in 1553, it reverted to the Crown, and was granted in 1604 to Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. It still belongs to the Duke of Northumberland.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1665. Here I took boat (leaving him there) and down to the Tower [Map], where I hear the Duke of Albemarle (age 56) is, and I to Lombard Street [Map], but can get no money. So upon the Exchange [Map], which is very empty, God knows! and but mean people there. The newes for certain that the Dutch are come with their fleete before Margett [Map], and some men were endeavouring to come on shore when the post come away, perhaps to steal some sheep.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1665. At the Tower [Map] found my Lord Duke (age 56) and Duchesse (age 46) at dinner; so I sat down. And much good cheer, the Lieutenant (age 50) and his lady (age 53), and several officers with the Duke. But, Lord! to hear the silly talk that was there, would make one mad; the Duke having none almost but fools about him. Much of their talke about the Dutch coming on shore, which they believe they may some of them have been and steal sheep, and speak all in reproach of them in whose hands the fleete is; but, Lord helpe him, there is something will hinder him and all the world in going to sea, which is want of victuals; for we have not wherewith to answer our service; and how much better it would have been if the Duke's advice had been taken for the fleete to have gone presently out; but, God helpe the King (age 35)! while no better counsels are given, and what is given no better taken.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1667. Up, and at home most of the morning with Sir H. Cholmly (age 35), about some accounts of his; and for news he tells me that the Commons and Lords have concurred, and delivered the King (age 37) their thanks, among other things, for his removal of the Chancellor (age 58); who took their thanks very well, and, among other things, promised them, in these words, never, in any degree, to entertain the Chancellor (age 58) any employment again.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1667. At noon to Broad Street to Sir G. Carteret (age 57) and Lord Bruncker (age 47), and there dined with them, and thence after dinner with Bruncker to White Hall, where the Duke of York (age 34) is now newly come for this winter, and there did our usual business, which is but little, and so I away to the Duke of York's house, thinking as we appointed, to meet my wife there, but she was not; and more, I was vexed to see Young (who is but a bad actor at best) act Macbeth in the room of Betterton (age 32), who, poor man! is sick: but, Lord! what a prejudice it wrought in me against the whole play, and everybody else agreed in disliking this fellow.

Pepy's Diary. 16 Oct 1667. And he tells me that it is very true, he hath it from one that was by, that the King (age 37) did, give the Duke of York (age 34) a sound reprimand; told him that he had lived with him with more kindness than ever any brother King lived with a brother, and that he lived as much like a monarch as himself, but advised him not to cross him in his designs about the Chancellor (age 58); in which the Duke of York (age 34) do very wisely acquiesce, and will be quiet as the King (age 37) bade him, but presently commands all his friends to be silent in the business of the Chancellor (age 58), and they were so: but that the Chancellor (age 58) hath done all that is possible to provoke the King (age 37), and to bring himself to lose his head by enraging of people. He gone, I to the office, busy all the morning.

Evelyn's Diary. 16 Oct 1671. In the morning, we went hunting and hawking; in the afternoon, till almost morning, to cards and dice, yet I must say without noise, swearing, quarrel, or confusion of any sort. I, who was no gamester, had often discourse with the French Ambassador, Colbert (age 46), and went sometimes abroad on horseback with the ladies to take the air, and now and then to hunting; thus idly passing the time, but not without more often recess to my pretty apartment, where I was quite out of all this hurry, and had leisure when I would, to converse with books, for there is no man more hospitably easy to be withal than my Lord Arlington (age 53), of whose particular friendship and kindness I had ever a more than ordinary share. His house is a very noble pile, consisting of four pavilions after the French, beside a body of a large house, and, though not built altogether, but formed of additions to an old house (purchased by his Lordship (age 53) of one Sir T. Rookwood) yet with a vast expense made not only capable and roomsome, but very magnificent and commodious, as well within as without, nor less splendidly furnished. The staircase is very elegant, the garden handsome, the canal beautiful, but the soil dry, barren, and miserably sandy, which flies in drifts as the wind sits. Here my Lord was pleased to advise with me about ordering his plantations of firs, elms, limes, etc., up his park, and in all other places and avenues. I persuaded him to bring his park so near as to comprehend his house within it; which he resolved upon, it being now near a mile to it. The water furnishing the fountains, is raised by a pretty engine, or very slight plain wheels, which likewise serve to grind his corn, from a small cascade of the canal, the invention of Sir Samuel Morland (age 46). In my Lord's (age 53) house, and especially above the staircase, in the great hall and some of the chambers and rooms of state, are paintings in fresco by Signor Verrio (age 35), being the first work which he did in England.

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On 16 Oct 1673 Mary Tudor Countess Derwentwater was born to King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 43) and Mary "Moll" Davis (age 25). He subsequently dismissed her with a pension of an annual pension of £1000.

Evelyn's Diary. 16 Oct 1678. Mr. Godolphin (age 33) requested me to continue the trust his wife (deceased) had reposed in me, in behalf of his little son, conjuring me to transfer the friendship I had for his dear wife, on him and his.

Roger Whitley's Diary. 16 Oct 1690. Thursday, Powell & another came in the morning from Shropshire about money Roger owes Boadler; went againe past 10:,&c.

On 19 Jun 1725 Charles Noel Somerset 4th Duke Beaufort (age 15) matriculated University College, Oxford University. He was awarded MA on 16 Oct 1727.

On 16 Oct 1793 at 12:15 Queen Marie Antoinette of France (age 37) was guillotined at the Place de la Révolution. Her last words were "Pardonnez-moi, monsieur. Je ne l'ai pas fait exprès" or "Pardon me, sir, I did not do it on purpose" after she accidentally stepped on the executioners shoe.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. On September 28, 1858, my marriage took place at the Military Chapel Gibraltar, and I was the first Countess of Cardigan to be married on foreign soil, I wore a white silk gown draped with a blue scarf, and a large hat adorned with many feathers; Lord Cardigan's (age 60) friends, Stuart Paget, Mrs, Paget and the Misses Paget, were present, and we gave a ball on the yacht in the evening. We spent a very gay week at Gibraltar, and then left for Cádiz, touching at Malacca and Alicante; then we took rail to Madrid [Map], where we arrived on October 16 in time to witness a review of 30,000 troops on Queen Isabella's (age 27) birthday. After a short stay at Madrid we rejoined the Airedale at Barcelona [Map], and went 500 miles by sea to Leghorn. We experienced bad weather and many storms, and every one on board was ill except myself. The cook was a great sufferer, and his absence was naturally felt by those who were able to look at food without aversion.

From Leghorn we went to Elba, when I saw the place Napoleon embarked from after the "hundred days". We left the Airedale at Civiti Vecchia and started for Rome, Italy [Map] in our travelling-carriage with six horses, escorted by some of the Papal Guard sent by the Pope to protect us. I met many of my friends in the Eternal City; I saw everything worth seeing during my delightful sojourn there, and before we left Lord Cardigan and I were blessed by the Pope at an audience we had with his Holiness. As I wished to go to Genoa by sea, we returned to Civita Vecchia and set out in the yacht for Genoa, where we landed; we went from there to Turin, and on by rail by the Mont Cenis route to Paris [Map].

Paris was then a city of delight, revelling in the palmy days of the Second Empire, and I greatly enjoyed my visit there. One night I went to the Opera with Cardigan and we saw Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Trelawney in a box. Mrs. Trelawney was the famous Miss Howard, once the English mistress of Louis Napoleon (age 50), who paid her £250,000 when he renounced her to marry Eugenie de Montijo (age 32). Mrs. Trelawney annoyed the Emperor (age 50) and Empress (age 32) as much as she dared by sitting opposite the Royal box at the Opera, and driving almost immediately behind the Empress's (age 32) carriage in the Bois de Boulogne. She was a very fat woman, and her embonpoint increased to such an extent that the doors of her carriage had to be enlarged to allow her to get in and out with comfort.

Clarence Trelawney was a friend of mine, and the poor fellow came to a sad end. After his wife's death he married an American lady, but unfortunately he got into debt. He appealed to his relations, who were very wealthy but apparently equally mean, for they refused to lend him the £400 he asked for, and driven desperate by worry he blew out his brains.

From Paris we came to London and stayed at Lord Cardigan's town-house in Portman Square Marylebone; then we went to Deene [Map] on December 14, where we met with a royal reception, six hundred tenants on horseback escorting our carriage from the station to the house.

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Births on the 16th October

On 16 Oct 1430 King James II of Scotland was born to King James I of Scotland (age 36) and Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland (age 26). He a great x 2 grandson of King Edward III of England.

On 16 Oct 1673 Mary Tudor Countess Derwentwater was born to King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 43) and Mary "Moll" Davis (age 25). He subsequently dismissed her with a pension of an annual pension of £1000.

On 16 Oct 1685 William Ward 10th Baron Dudley 5th Baron Ward was born to William Ward (age 26).

On 16 Oct 1716 Augustus Fitzroy was born to Charles Fitzroy 2nd Duke Grafton (age 32) and Henrietta Somerset Duchess Grafton (age 26). He a great grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 16 Oct 1732 John Newton was born to Michael Newton 4th Baronet (age 37) and Margaret Coningsby 2nd Countess Coningsby (age 23).

On 16 Oct 1767 Robert Edward Clifford was born to Hugh Clifford 4th Baron Clifford Chudleigh (age 41) and Anne Lee Baroness Clifford Chudleigh (age 36). He a great x 2 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 16 Oct 1768 Grenville Temple 9th Baronet was born to John Temple 8th Baronet (age 37).

On 16 Oct 1784 George Coventry 8th Earl Coventry was born to George Coventry 7th Earl Coventry (age 26) and Margaret "Peggy" Pitches Countess Coventry (age 24).

On 16 Oct 1791 James Drummond was born to James Drummond 11th Earl Perth (age 47) and Clementia Elphinstone Countess Perth (age 42).

On 16 Oct 1797 James Brudenell 7th Earl Cardigan was born to Robert Brudenell 6th Earl Cardigan (age 28) and Penelope Cooke Countess Cardigan (age 27) at Hambledon, Buckinghamshire.

On 16 Oct 1804 Ferdinand St John was born to George Richard St John 4th Viscount St John 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke (age 43) and Isabella Charlotte Hompesch Baroness von Hompesch (age 28).

On 16 Oct 1814 Henry Cavendish Grey was born to Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey (age 50) and Mary Elizabeth Ponsonby Countess Grey (age 38).

On 16 Oct 1819 Francis Russell 9th Duke Bedford was born to George Russell (age 29) and Elizabeth Anne Rawdon.

On 16 Oct 1839 John Crichton 4th Earl Erne was born to John Crichton 3rd Earl Erne (age 37) and Selina Griselda Beresford Countess Erne (age 35).

On 16 Oct 1846 Francis Hervey was born to Frederick Hervey 2nd Marquess of Bristol (age 46) and Katherine Isabella Manners (age 37).

On 16 Oct 1854 Guy Theophilus Campbell 3rd Baronet was born to Edward Fitzgerald Campbell 2nd Baronet (age 31).

On 16 Oct 1874 Osborne De Vere Beauclerk 12th Duke St Albans was born to William Amelius Aubrey Beauclerk 10th Duke St Albans (age 34) and Grace Bernal Duchess St Albans (age 26).

On 16 Oct 1900 Richard Dundas Harington 13th Baronet was born to Richard Harington 12th Baronet (age 39) and Selina Louise Grace Dundas Lady Harington (age 25).

On 16 Oct 1904 Elspeth Grace Whitaker Marchioness Northampton was born.

Marriages on the 16th October

On 16 Oct 1265 William Leybourne 1st Baron Leybourne (age 23) and Juliana de Sandwich (age 20) were married.

On 16 Oct 1306 Rudolph Habsburg III Duke Austria (age 24) and Elizabeth Richeza Unknown Duchess Austria were married at Prague. She by marriage Duchess Austria. He the son of Albert Habsburg I Duke Austria (age 51) and Elizabeth Carinthia Duchess Austria.

Before 16 Oct 1662 Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet (age 30) and Mary Coke (age 45) were married.

On 16 Oct 1662 Nicholas L'Estrange 3rd Baronet (age 30) and Elizabeth Isham Lady Strange (age 9) were married. She by marriage Lady Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk. The difference in their ages was 20 years.

Before 16 Oct 1671 Edward Stanley 3rd Baronet (age 28) and Elizabeth Bosville (age 26) were married.

On 16 Oct 1725 Robert Moore (age 37) and Anne Lennard 16th Baroness Dacre of Gilsland Baroness Teynham (age 41) were married. She the daughter of Thomas Lennard 1st Earl of Sussex and Anne Fitzroy Countess Sussex. He the son of Henry Hamilton Moore 3rd Earl of Drogheda. She a granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 16 Oct 1735 Simon Harcourt 1st Earl Harcourt (age 21) and Rebecca Samborne Le Bass were married.

On 16 Oct 1739 Robert Clifton 5th Baronet (age 49) and Hannah Lombe Lady Clifton were married. She by marriage Lady Clifton of Clifton in Nottinghamshire.

On 16 Oct 1811 Du Pre Alexander 2nd Earl Caledon (age 33) and Catherine Yorke Countess Caledon (age 25) were married at St James' Church, Piccadilly. She the daughter of Philip Yorke 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (age 54) and Elizabeth Lindsay Countess Hardwicke (age 48). He the son of James Alexander 1st Earl Caledon.

On 16 Oct 1841 Friedrich Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 26) and Adelheid Schasumburg Lippe Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg were married. He the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Glücksburg Duke Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg and Louise Caroline Hesse-Kassel Duchess Schleswig Holstein Sonderburg Glücksburg (age 52). He a great x 2 grandson of King George II of Great Britain and Ireland.

On 16 Oct 1860 William Meredyth Somerville 1st Baron Meredyth and Athlumney (age 58) and Maria Georgiana Elizabeth Jones (age 29) were married. The difference in their ages was 29 years.

On 16 Oct 1883 Montagu Arthur Bertie 7th Earl of Abingdon (age 47) and Gwendoline Mary Dormer (age 18) were married. The difference in their ages was 28 years. He the son of Montagu Bertie 6th Earl of Abingdon (age 75) and Elizabeth Lavinia Harcourt Countess Abingdon.

On 16 Oct 1897 Henry de la Poer Beresford 6th Marquess Waterford (age 22) and Beatrix Petty-Fitzmaurice Duchess St Albans (age 20) were married. She by marriage Marchioness Waterford. She the daughter of Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th Marquess Lansdowne (age 52) and Maud Evelyn Hamilton Marchioness Lansdowne (age 47). He the son of John Beresford 5th Marquess Waterford and Blanche Elizabeth Adelaide Somerset. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

Deaths on the 16th October

On 16 Oct 1071 Almodis La Marche Margrave Provence (age 51) died.

On 16 Oct 1274 Eleanor Ferrers Countess Winchester (age 38) died.

On 16 Oct 1323 Amadeus V "Great" Savoy (age 74) died. His son Edward "Liberal" Savoy Count Savoy (age 39) succeeded Count Savoy.

On 16 Oct 1383 Beatrice Brewes Baroness Say (age 31) died.

On 16 Oct 1386 Hugh Stafford 2nd Earl Stafford (age 50) died returning from his Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. His son Thomas Stafford 3rd Earl Stafford (age 18) succeeded 3rd Earl Stafford, 4th Baron Stafford.

On 16 Oct 1432 Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Earl of Kildare died. She was buried at Grey Abbey, County Kildare. His uncle John Fitzgerald 6th Earl of Kildare succeeded 6th Earl Kildare.

After 16 Oct 1486 Joan Stewart Countess Morton (age 58) died.

On 16 Oct 1545 Piers Power 2nd Baron Power (age 23) died. His brother John Power 3rd Baron Power (age 16) succeeded 3rd Baron Le Power and Coroghmore.

On 16 Oct 1553 Lucas Cranach "The Elder" (age 81) died.

On 16 Oct 1555 Bishop Hugh Latimer (age 68) and Bishop Nicholas Ridley (age 55) were burned at the stake at Oxford, Oxfordshire [Map]. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (age 66) was forced to watch.

On 16 Oct 1590 Anna Habsburg Spain Duchess Bavaria (age 62) died.

On 16 Oct 1671 Edward Stanley 3rd Baronet (age 28) died. His son Thomas Horton Stanley 4th Baronet (age 1) succeeded 4th Baronet Stanley of Bickerstaffe.

On 16 Oct 1679 Roger Boyle 1st Earl Orrery (age 58) died. His son Roger Boyle 2nd Earl Orrery (age 33) succeeded 2nd Earl Orrery. Mary Sackville Countess Orrery (age 31) by marriage Countess Orrery.

On 16 Oct 1680 Thomas Cullum 2nd Baronet (age 51) died. His son Dudley Cullum 3rd Baronet (age 23) succeeded 3rd Baronet Cullum of Hastede in Suffolk.

On 16 Oct 1683 George Cooke 1st Baronet (age 51) died unmarried. His brother Henry Cooke 2nd Baronet (age 49) succeeded 2nd Baronet Cooke of Wheatley Hall in Yorkshire.

On 16 Oct 1701 James Reade 2nd Baronet (age 46) died. He was buried on 21 Oct 1701 in the Brocket Chapel at St Elthreda's Church, Bishop's Hatfield. His son John Reade 3rd Baronet (age 10) succeeded 3rd Baronet Reade of Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire.

On 16 Oct 1732 Bennet Sherard 1st Earl Harborough (age 57) died. His first cousin once removed Philip Sherard 2nd Earl Harborough (age 52) succeeded 2nd Earl Harborough, 2nd Viscount Sherard, 4th Baron Sherard of Leitrim, 2nd Baron Sherard of Harborough. Anne Pedley Countess Harborough (age 57) by marriage Countess Harborough.

On or before 16 Oct 1747 Jane Kemeys Lady Tynte (age 62) died. She was buried on 16 Oct 1747 at the Church of St Edward King and Martyr, Goathurst [Map].

On 16 Oct 1767 Ellis Cunliffe 1st Baronet (age 50) died. His brother Robert Cunliffe 2nd Baronet (age 48) succeeded 2nd Baronet Cunliffe of Liverpool in Lancaster. Mary Wright Lady Cunliffe by marriage Lady Cunliffe of Liverpool in Lancaster.

On 16 Oct 1769 George Forbes 4th Earl Granard (age 59) died. His son George Forbes 5th Earl Granard (age 29) succeeded 5th Earl Granard.

On 16 Oct 1869 Robert King 6th Earl Kingston (age 65) died.

On 16 Oct 1913 George Orby Wombwell 4th Baronet (age 80) died. He was buried at St Michael's Church, Coxwold, North Yorkshire [Map]. He was the last surviving officer of the Charge of the Light Brigade. His brother Henry Herbert Wombwell 5th Baronet (age 73) succeeded 5th Baronet Wombwell of Wombwell in Yorkshire.

On 16 Oct 1927 Melissa Ray Lady Reade died.

On 16 Oct 1971 Alexander Peregrine Fuller-Acland-Hood 2nd Baron St Audries (age 77) died. Baron St Audries of St Audries in Somerset extinct. His first cousin Alexander William Fuller-Acland-Hood 6th and 8th Baronet (age 70) succeeded 6th Baronet Hood of Tidlake in Surrey and 8th Baronet Bateman of Hartington Hall in Derbyshire.

On 16 Oct 1981 Gerard Henry Fleetwood Fuller 2nd Baronet (age 75) died. His son John William Fleetwood Fuller 3rd Baronet (age 44) succeeded 3rd Baronet Fuller of Neston Park in Corsham in Wiltshire.

On 16 Oct 2003 Robert Charles Darling 2nd Baron Darling (age 84) died. His son Robert Julian Henry Darling 3rd Baron Darling (age 59) succeeded 3rd Baron Darling of Langham in Essex.