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Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans, KG KB (6 April 1696 – 27 July 1751) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1718 until 1726 when he succeeded to a peerage as Duke of St Albans. He was an illegitimate grandson of King Charles II.
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans. He was born in London on 8th May 1670, an illegitimate son of Charles II and Nell Gywnne. His father created him Earl of Burford and in 1684 Duke of St Albans. He served in the army against the Turks and with William III in Flanders.
King Charles II had accepted that Burford was his illegitimate son by Nell Gwyn, an actress, and awarded him the dukedom just as he had conferred those of Monmouth, Southampton, Grafton, Northumberland, and Richmond and Lennox on his other illegitimate sons who married .
In 1684, he was created Duke of St. Albans and, on Easter day of that year, accompanied his father and two other natural sons of the King, the Dukes of Northumberland and Richmond, when Charles II made his offering at the altar at Whitehall, the three boys entering before the King within the rails.
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans, KG (8 May 1670 – 10 May 1726) was an illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by his mistress Nell Gwyn. Biography [ edit ] His surname, Beauclerk ( Anglo-Norman for "fine scholar"), had been an epithet of King Henry I .
When Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans, KG, KB was born on 6 April 1696, his father, Charles Beauclerk 1st Duke of St Albans, KG, was 25 and his mother, Lady 1st Duchess of St Albans Diana de Vere, was 17. He married Lucy Werden on 13 December 1722, in Bray, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom.
Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans, KG KB was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1718 until 1726 when he succeeded to a peerage as Duke of St Albans. He was an illegitimate grandson of King Charles II.
