The 10th and later Dukes of Norfolk, who have inherited the associated peerages and office of Earl Marshal, descend from his brother Charles Howard of Greystoke.

In Parliament, beginning on November 18, 1914, Swift MacNeill, a Protestant Irish Nationalist and Constitutional scholar who served as Member of Parliament for South Donegal, condemned the Dukes of Albany and Cumberland as traitors and demanding to know " what steps will be taken to secure that shall no longer retain United Kingdom peerages and titles and a seat in the House of Lords.

These were the Dukes and Princes of Teck and the Princes of Battenberg, who were compensated with peerages, viz.

Under Mary's marriage treaty with Philip, the official joint style reflected not only Mary's but also Philip's dominions and claims: " Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, King and Queen of England, France, Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

This style, which had been in use since 1554, was replaced when Philip inherited the Spanish Crown in 1556 with " Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God King and Queen of England, Spain, France, both the Sicilies, Jerusalem and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Burgundy, Milan and Brabant, Counts of Habsburg, Flanders and Tyrol ".

The Angevin Kings of England, as Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, were his most powerful and dangerous vassals.

The recusant Howard family, also known as Fitzalan-Howard, the Dukes of Norfolk, is the most prominent Catholic family in England.

Edward III of England, however, in 1364-65, in the name of his wife Philippa, demanded the return of Hainaut and other inheritances which had been given over to the Dukes of Bavaria – Straubing.

Currently, there are twenty-seven dukedoms in the Peerage of England, Peerage of Scotland, Peerage of Great Britain, Peerage of Ireland and Peerage of the United Kingdom, held by twenty-four different people ( see List of Dukes in order of precedence ).

Cornwall was the first dukedom conferred within the Kingdom of England, although the Dukes of Normandy ( King of England ), Brittany ( Earl of Richmond ) and Aquitaine ( Duke of Lancaster ) held substantial estates and fiefs within England, being based in France.

During the period in which England and France contended for the rule of Normandy ( through the end of the Hundred Years ' War ), the kings of England not infrequently created peers as Counts and Dukes of Aumale.

Today the castle remains the principal seat of the Dukes of Norfolk, the dukedom currently being held by the 18th Duke, the Earl Marshal of England.

His senior descendants, the Dukes of Norfolk, have been Earls Marshal and Premier Peers of England since the 17th century, and male-line descendants hold the Earldoms of Carlisle, Suffolk, Berkshire and Effingham.

* Successive Dukes of Norfolk and Earls Marshal of England

The constitutional ambiguity of Dukes of Brittany as vassals of both Valois France ( in right of Brittany ) and Plantagenet England ( in right of Richmond ) was the source of much tension in Breton and Northern English history, particularly during the great Breton War of Succession and Wars of the Roses.

The Dukes family originally came from the north of England.

The banquet was hosted by Sir Heneage Finch, the Speaker of the House of Commons and was attended by the King, four Dukes including the Duke of York, fourteen Earls of England, Scotland and Ireland, 6 Lords and the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.

Other large-scale collectors included Wenceslas, the son of Charles IV, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, son of Henry IV of England and " Regent " of English-occupied France, and the Dukes of Burgundy.

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Coat of Arms of the Seymour Dukes of Somerset: Quarterly: 1st and 4th Or, on a pile gules between six fleurs de lys azure three Lions in heraldry | lions of England ; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or ( Seymour ) The paternal arms of Seymour concede the positions of greatest honour, the 1st & 4th Quartering ( heraldry ) | quarters, to a version of the Armorial of Plantagenet | arms of Plantagenet

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: Other titles ( 2nd and 4th through 9th Dukes ): Baron Strange ( England, 1628 )

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Her mother, Joan ( Bridge ) Baez, referred to as Joan Senior or " Big Joan ", was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the second daughter of an English Anglican priest descended from the Dukes of Chandos.

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It was previously a seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

The arms of the Dukes of Norfolk still carry an augmentation of honour awarded on account of their ancestor's victory at Flodden, a modified version of the Royal coat of arms of Scotland with an arrow through the lion's mouth.

The Earls, Marquesses, and Dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful, if not the most powerful, noble family in Scotland.

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Between 1839 and 1963 the Dukes also held the titles of Lord Strathnaver and Earl of Sutherland, both in the Peerage of Scotland.

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Thomson ’ s ancestors were small tenant farmers on the estates of the Dukes of Buccleuch at Bo ' ness, in the parish of Westerkirk, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

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It was previously a seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

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A descendant of the Dukes of Roxburghe and cousin of Allan Ebenezer Ker, Robert was born in Dalkeith and educated in Scotland, and came to Vancouver Island in 1859.

His descendants include the Bruce and Stewart Kings of Scotland, and probably the Campbell Dukes of Argyll.

The Dukes of Bavaria, Württemberg, and Saxony made themselves Kings, as later did the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who was already King of Great Britain.

The “ Great Dukes of the West ,” as the Burgundian princes were called, were effectively considered national sovereigns, their domains extending from the Zuiderzee to the Somme.

Since 1711, the Dukedom has been held together with the Dukedom of Brandon in the Peerage of Great Britain, and the Dukes since that time have been styled Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.

: Other titles ( 6th through 9th Dukes ): Earl Strange and Baron Murray ( Great Britain, 1786, extinct 1957 ); Baron Glenlyon ( United Kingdom, 1821, extinct 1957 )

: Other titles ( 7th through 9th Dukes ): Baron Percy ( Great Britain, 1722 )

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* Nick Carraway, the narrator of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, claims to be descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but simultaneously points out that this is not true — his family was ' founded ' by his grandfather's brother who came over in 1851.

Also, the larger battles over the crown of England, known as the Wars of the Roses, were clearly inspired by views of Cade ’ s rebels, especially since one of the requests in Cade ’ s manifesto, the Requests by the Captain of the Great Assembly of Kent, outright informs the King that the mass of rebels and followers wished for the Duke of York to be returned from exile and to take the place of the corrupt Dukes under King Henry VI ’ s rule.

In addition, there are two royal appointments: the Lord Great Chamberlain, currently the Marquess of Cholmondeley, is appointed as the Queen's representative in Parliament, while the Earl Marshal, an office held since 1672 by the Dukes of Norfolk, is responsible for ceremonies such as the State Opening of Parliament.

The Dukes of Atholl were early and enthusiastic tree planters, and Diana's Grove contains some of the tallest trees in Great Britain.

( Its Dukes were Otto I, Barnim III the Great, Casimir III, Swantibor I, Boguslaw VII, Otto II, Casimir V, Joachim I the Younger, Otto III.

The Brazilian system, for instance, automatically deemed Dukes, Marquesses and Earls ( as well as Archbishops and Bishops ) Grandes do Império (" Grandees of the Empire ", or in a literal translation " Great Ones of the Empire ").

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Their monarchical title in Lithuanian primarily was, by some folkloristic data, kunigų kunigas (" Duke of Dukes "), and later on, didysis kunigas (" Great / High Duke ") or, in a simple manner, kunigaikštis.

Great Portland Street was developed by the Dukes of Portland, who owned most of the eastern half of Marylebone in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Category: Dukes in the Peerage of Great Britain

Category: Dukes in the Peerage of Great Britain