Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich 1615-1671

Before 1608 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 22] and [his step-mother] Mary Neville [aged 17] were married. They were sixth cousins.

Around 1615 Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich was born to George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 29].

In 1628 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 42] was created 1st Baron Goring at which time he ceased to be MP Lewes.

Before 4th May 1631 [his brother-in-law] William Brereton 2nd Baron Brereton [aged 20] and [his half-sister] Elizabeth Goring Baroness Brereton were married. She the daughter of [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 46] and [his step-mother] Mary Neville [aged 41]. They were half fourth cousins.

On 1st October 1631 William Brereton 1st Baron Brereton [aged 81] died. His grandson [his brother-in-law] William [aged 20] succeeded 2nd Baron Brereton and inherited Brereton Hall, Cheshire [Map]. [his half-sister] Elizabeth Goring Baroness Brereton by marriage Baroness Brereton.

In November 1644 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 59] was created 1st Earl Norwich by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland [aged 14] for his support during the Civil War. The last Earl Norwich of the previous creation was his uncle Edward Denny 1st Earl Norwich brother of his mother [his grandmother] Anne Denny [aged 77].

Before 1658 Thomas Baker and [his future wife] Alice Leman Countess Norwich were married.

After 1658 and before 7th January 1659 Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich [aged 43] and Alice Leman Countess Norwich were married. The earlier date based on the death of her first husband. He the son of George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 72].

On 6th January 1663 [his father] George Goring 1st Earl Norwich [aged 77] died. His son Charles [aged 48] succeeded 2nd Earl Norwich, 2nd Baron Goring. [his wife] Alice Leman Countess Norwich by marriage Countess Norwich.

John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd September 1669. I was this day very ill of a pain in my limbs, which continued most of this week, and was increased by a visit I made to my old acquaintance, the Earl of Norwich [aged 54], at his house in Epping Forest, Essex, where are many good pictures put into the wainscot of the rooms, which Mr. Baker, his Lordship's predecessor there, brought out of Spain; especially the History of Joseph, a picture of the pious and learned Picus Mirandula, and an incomparable one of old Breugel. The gardens were well understood, I mean the potager. I returned late in the evening, ferrying over the water at Greenwich, Kent [Map].

On 3rd March 1671 Charles Goring 2nd Earl Norwich [aged 56] died without issue. Earl Norwich and Baron Goring extinct.

Around 20th July 1680 [his former wife] Alice Leman Countess Norwich died.

John Evelyn's Diary. 16th March 1683. I dined at Mr. Houblon's [aged 53], a rich and gentle French merchant, who was building a house in the Forest, near Sir J. Child's [aged 52], in a place where the late Earl of Norwich dwelt some time, and which came from his [his former wife] lady, the widow of Mr. Baker. It will be a pretty villa, about five miles from Whitechapel.