George Cholmondeley 1724-1764

Paternal Family Tree: Cholmondeley

On 14th September 1723 [his father] George Cholmondeley 3rd Earl Cholmondeley [aged 20] and [his mother] Mary Walpole were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford [aged 47]. He the son of George Cholmondeley 2nd Earl Cholmondeley [aged 57] and Elisabeth van Ruytenburgh Baroness Newborough and Newburgh.

On 17th October 1724 George Cholmondeley was born to George Cholmondeley 3rd Earl Cholmondeley [aged 21] and Mary Walpole.

On 21st December 1731 [his mother] Mary Walpole died at Aix en Provence. She was buried at St Oswald's Church, Malpas [Map].

On 11th May 1745 the allied army commanded by William Augustus Hanover 1st Duke Cumberland [aged 24] was defeated by a French army at the Battle of Fontenoy.

George Cholmondeley [aged 20], George Keppel 3rd Earl Albermarle [aged 21], Joseph Yorke 1st Baron Dover [aged 20] and John Waldegrave 3rd Earl Waldegrave [aged 27] fought.

Henry Ponsonby [aged 60], James Dillon and Robert Douglas were killed.

George Sackville aka Germain 1st Viscount Sackville [aged 29] led the charge of the Duke of Cumberland's infantry leading his regiment so deep into the French lines that when he was wounded and captured he was taken to the tent of Louis XV.

Louis 6th Duke of Gramont [aged 55] was killed. His son Antoine [aged 23] succeeded 7th Duke Gramont.

In 1747 George Cholmondeley [aged 22] and Hester Edwardes [aged 19] were married. He the son of George Cholmondeley 3rd Earl Cholmondeley [aged 43] and Mary Walpole.

On 11th May 1749 [his son] George Cholmondeley 1st Marquess Cholmondeley was born to George Cholmondeley [aged 24] and [his wife] Hester Edwardes [aged 21]. He married 25th April 1791 Georgina Charlotte Bertie Marchioness Cholmondeley, daughter of Peregrine Bertie 3rd Duke Ancaster and Kesteven and Mary Panton Duchess Ancaster and Kesteven, and had issue.

In 1754 George Cholmondeley [aged 29] was elected MP Bramber.

In 1761 George Cholmondeley [aged 36] was elected MP Corfe Castle, Dorset.

On 15th March 1764 George Cholmondeley [aged 39] died.

William of Worcester's Chronicle of England

William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.

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On 3rd September 1794 [his former wife] Hester Edwardes [aged 66] died.

[his daughter] Hester Cholmondeley was born to George Cholmondeley. She married William Clapcote Lisle.

Royal Ancestors of George Cholmondeley 1724-1764

Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Godwinson: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Harold II of England

Kings England: Great x 17 Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Malcolm III of Scotland

Kings France: Great x 15 Grand Son of King Philip III of France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 26 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Kings Spain: Great x 18 Grand Son of Alfonso II King Aragon

Ancestors of George Cholmondeley 1724-1764

Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh "The Elder" Cholmondeley

Great x 3 Grandfather: Hugh "The Younger" Cholmondeley

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Dorman

Great x 2 Grandfather: Hugh Cholmondeley

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Holford

Great x 1 Grandfather: Robert Cholmondeley 1st Viscount Cholmondeley

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Bodville

Grandfather: George Cholmondeley 2nd Earl Cholmondeley

Great x 2 Grandfather: George Cradock

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Cradock Viscountess Cholmondley

father: George Cholmondeley 3rd Earl Cholmondeley 14 x Great Grandson of King Philip III of France

Great x 1 Grandfather: Adrian Heer van Ruytenburgh

Grandmother: Elisabeth van Ruytenburgh Baroness Newborough and Newburgh 13 x Great Granddaughter of King Philip III of France

Great x 3 Grandfather: Prince Maurice I of Orange 10 x Great Grandson of King Philip III of France

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anna of Saxony 9 x Great Granddaughter of King Philip III of France

Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis Nassau Beverweert 11 x Great Grandson of King Philip III of France

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaretha van Mechelen

Great x 1 Grandmother: Wilhemina Anna van Nassau 12 x Great Granddaughter of King Philip III of France

George Cholmondeley 15 x Great Grandson of King Philip III of France

Great x 4 Grandfather: Calybut Walpole of Houghton

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Walpole

Great x 2 Grandfather: Edward Walpole of Houghton

Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Barkham

Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Barkham

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jane Crouch

Great x 1 Grandfather: Colonel Robert Walpole

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Crane 1st Baronet

Great x 2 Grandmother: Susan Crane

Great x 4 Grandfather: Giles Alington

Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Alinton

Grandfather: Robert Walpole 1st Earl Orford

mother: Mary Walpole