They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton ( 1828 – 1848 ), and ( Edward ) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ( 1831 – 1891 ) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India ( 1876 – 1880 ).

A 13th-century depiction of John and his legitimate children, ( l to r ) Henry III of England | Henry, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | Richard, Isabella of England | Isabella, Eleanor of Leicester | Eleanor, and Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland | Joan

The book also claims that the queen had children by the Earl of Leicester.

Richard also had two acknowledged illegitimate children: John of Gloucester, also known as " John of Pontefract ", and a daughter Katherine who married William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke in 1484.

By Elizabeth he had four children: David II, John ( died in childhood ), Matilda ( who married Thomas Isaac and died at Aberdeen 20 July 1353 ), and Margaret ( who married William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland in 1345 ).

* Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon ( 19 October 1755-20 July 1780 ), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774 ; three children, including the traveler and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope.

With the death of Earl Siward ( 1055 ) and later Earl Ælfgar ( 1062 ), the children of Godwin were poised to assume sole control.

Under these conventions, HM The Queen's children, the children of HRH The Prince of Wales, HRH The Duke of York and HRH The Earl of Wessex would all be titled Princes or Princesses and styled Royal Highness, as would be the eldest son of HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

However, upon HRH The Earl of Wessex's marriage in 1999, it was announced that his children would be styled as an earl's children.

Thus, the unmarried son of The Prince of Wales is Prince Harry of Wales ; the daughters of the Duke of York are Princess Beatrice of York and Princess Eugenie of York ; the children of the Earl of Wessex are Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the youngest daughter and the ninth of ten children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, Lord Glamis, ( later the 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne in the Peerage of Scotland ), and his wife, Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.

From his first marriage to Dorothy de Vere, sister of the John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, he had two children, John and Margaret.

* Thomas Grey, Earl of Huntingdon, Marquess of Dorset and Lord Ferrers de Groby ( 1457 – 20 September 1501 ), married firstly Anne Holland, but she died young without issue ; he married secondly on 18 July 1474, Cecily Bonville, suo jure Baroness Harington and Bonville, by whom he had fourteen children.

In a spill-over from the War of the Roses, according to R. J. Mitchell in John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, the Earl of Desmond and his two youngest sons ( still children ) were executed there on Valentine's Day, 1468, on orders of the Earl of Worcester, the Lord Deputy of Ireland.

They were parents to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington and two other children.

John Beaufort, 1st Marquess of Somerset and 1st Marquess of Dorset, later only 1st Earl of Somerset, KG ( 1373 – 16 March 1410 ) was the first of the four legitimized children of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress Katherine Swynford, later his wife.

Her new husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, was one of the premier aristocrats of the realm, and the father of seven children by his first marriage.

They had four children, including John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland.

# Maud Marshal ( 1194 – 27 March 1248 ), married ( 1 ) Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk, they had four children ; ( 2 ) William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey, they had two children ; ( 3 ) Walter de Dunstanville.

** His stepmother ( The Dowager Countess of Harewood ), wife, children, brothers, nephews, nieces and his late uncle's son and grandson

The children of HRH The Princess Royal, HRH Princess Alexandra, and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, are not entitled to any royal title since princesses do not transmit their titles to their children.

The Countess leaves for Austria, resentful of her children and of Lionel.

She and her children were made Counts de Torby, her younger daughter, Countess Nada ( 1896 – 1963 ) marrying, in 1916 Prince George of Battenberg, future Marquess of Milford Haven and scion of the House of Battenberg, a morganatic branch of the grandducal House of Hesse which had settled in England and inter-married with descendants of Queen Victoria.

Kirsten was titled " Countess of Schleswig-Holstein " and bore the King 12 children, all styled " Count / Countess of Schleswig-Holstein ".

He also sired two children with Maria Giulia, the Countess of Atri:

Napoleon acknowledged two illegitimate children: Charles Léon ( 1806 – 1881 ) by Eléonore Denuelle de La Plaigne, and Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski ( 1810 – 1868 ) by Countess Marie Walewska.

His mother's children by her first marriage to Louis VII of France were Marie of France, Countess of Champagne and Alix of France, Countess Blois.

He died young about 1526, having married the heiress of Sir Roger Lewknor ; the Countess and her son Henry pressed his widow to a vow of perpetual chastity to preserve her inheritance for her Pole children.

Henry Percy married Elizabeth Mortimer, the eldest daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, and his wife, Philippa, the only child of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, and Elizabeth de Burgh, Countess of Ulster, and by her had two children:

Sunderland would gain £ 500 for every pound stock rose, George I's mistress, their children and Countess Platen £ 120 per pound rise, Aislabie £ 200 per pound, Stanhope £ 600 per pound.

The Earl and Countess have two children, Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn.

They had no legitimate children, although at least one of Lord Cowper's putative children, Lady Emily Cowper, later Countess of Shaftesbury, was widely believed to have been Palmerston's.

Countess Hélène, shaken by the bankruptcy and her husband's desertion, took their seven children to live with her aunt Louise at this aunt's estate in Sällvik.

Lennart's widow Sonja Countess Bernadotte af Wisborg and his children ran both the foundation and the management company until 2007.

From her children Henrieta, Countess of Newcastle and James, Duke of Berwick, she is the ancestor of the Earls Spencer and Diana, Princess of Wales as well as of the Dukes of Berwick, the later Dukes of Alba and of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, the person with the most noble titles in the world.

In 1865 Acton married Countess Marie Anna Ludomilla Euphrosina von Arco auf Valley, daughter of the Bavarian Count Maximilian von Arco auf Valley, by whom he had six children:

Cosima had been one of three children born out of wedlock to the ultra-popular Hungarian composer and pianist Ferenc ( Franz ) Liszt by Countess Marie d ' Agoult.

Walter and Lettice had three children, a son Robert and two daughters, Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich and Dorothy Percy, Countess of Northumberland.

< center > Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone with her children May and Rupert .</ center > On 10 February 1904, at St George's Chapel, Windsor, Princess Alice of Albany married her second cousin once-removed, Prince Alexander of Teck, the brother of Princess Mary, the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Mary, consort of George V ).

When the Countess married a French officer, her Hungarian in-laws insisted that the children be returned to Hungary for their schooling.

Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

They had six children, four of whom became kings of Wessex.

Seemingly, the only people who would officially hold the hyphenated surname under the Order in Council would be any male-line great-grandchildren of the Queen in cadet branches ; i. e., the children of any sons of the Duke of York and Earl of Wessex ( currently only Lord Severn ).

* On the wedding day of The Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones, it was announced by Buckingham Palace that it was the specific wish of the Earl and Countess of Wessex ( and the will of the Queen ) that their children would be styled as children of an earl, and not as Princes of the United Kingdom with the style Royal Highness.

England was briefly split with various of Edward's children ruling Mercia, Wessex and Kent.

His children were Ulf ( d. 1027 ), a steward and Earl of Canute the Great in Denmark, whose son became king Sweyn II of Denmark, Eilaf ( also Earl of King Canute ) and Gytha Thorkelsdóttir who was to marry Godwin, Earl of Wessex and become mother of Harold Godwinson, king of England.

As Chairman of the Wessex Children's Hospice Trust from 1992 to 1997, the Trust exceeded its target to raise £ 5m to build, equip and run the first children ’ s respite care hospice in central Southern England.

It was the birthplace of the two children of the Earl and Countess of Wessex, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn ; and Rugby Union World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson.

In 695 Wessex issued a law code proscribing fines for failing to baptise one's children and for failing to tithe.