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4 days ago · The Duke of Albemarle was second son of Sir Thomas Monk : his elder brother having died without issue, he became the representative of this ancient family. The title became extinct in 1688, by the death of Christopher his son, the second duke.
1 day ago · Fairfax sold the manor in 1661 to George Monck, duke of Albemarle. (fn. 59) George's son Christopher, duke of Albemarle (d. 1688), left his estates in trust to several kinsmen and Sutton upon Derwent passed to one of them, Sir John Granville, created earl of Bath (d. 1701).
5 days ago · Monck, who had made the restoration possible, was raised to duke of Albemarle and continued to hold military authority over the small standing army that, for the first time in English history, the king maintained.
Jul 7, 2024 · Given General Monck’s earlier connections with Cromwell—as general-for-hire against the Irish and the Dutch from 1646 and as Governor of Scotland in the 1650s, before he was created Duke of Albemarle in 1660—the transferring of the monkey metaphor from one low-born wife to another is surely no accident.
4 days ago · The estate was still described as a park in 1661, when it was granted by the duchy to George Monck, duke of Albemarle, but it had been converted to farm-land by 1686.
5 days ago · Upon the death of Sir George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, in 1670, Lord Craven was commissioned colonel of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.
5 days ago · Gerald Aylmer adds John Thurloe, Henry Cromwell and Gen. George Monck to be considered as allied to this group, and Hyde and his informers certainly considered each as central to a successful restoration of the monarchy.
