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On Bismarck's death in 1898, his dukedom ( held only for his own lifetime ) was extinguished and the princely title passed to his eldest son, Herbert.
This, along with a general economical decadence, damaged the dukedom, and last Duke and Prince, Flavio ( March 4, 1620 – April 5, 1698 ) was forced by the huge debts to sell it to the Odescalchi and others.
Formerly, the peerage bestowed was usually an earldom ( which was always hereditary ), with Churchill offered a dukedom.
When a dukedom was centralized these people would find employment as government officials or officers.
" Similarly, the former Birgitte Eva van Deurs was titled " HRH Princess Richard of Gloucester " from her wedding until her husband succeeded to his father's dukedom in 1974.
The first creation was in 1384 ; the dukedom merged in the Crown in 1461.
The pattern of awarding the dukedom to the second-eldest son of the Sovereign was upset by George I, who gave the Dukedom of York and Albany to his younger brother.
The dukedom was created in 1398 for Robert Stewart, brother of King Robert III.
It was at the time the only dukedom other than the Dukedom of Rothesay.
It was last created in 1881, for the fourth son of Queen Victoria ; the dukedom was then suspended under the Titles Deprivation Act after its holder fought on the side of Germany during World War I.
Clarence was first used as a dukedom in 1362, most of the time being granted to the third son of the Sovereign.
The dukedom of Windsor was also a Royal dukedom, being granted to Edward VIII after he abdicated so that he could marry against the tenets of the Church of England.
In settling the issue, George's first act as king was to confer upon his brother the title and style " His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor ", but the Letters Patent creating the dukedom prevented any wife or children from bearing royal styles.
Shortly after George's accession to his paternal dukedom, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, who was second-in-line to the English and Scottish thrones, died.
The third, given to Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, was the only dukedom created during the reign of Pedro II.
By the time James was ransomed in 1424, Murdoch had succeeded his father to the dukedom and the governorship of Scotland.
He was invested in 1666 with the Order of the Garter ( which had been bestowed upon him in 1650 ), and was advanced to a dukedom on 16 March 1665.
Mowbray died in exile in 1399, some months after his grandmother, and his dukedom was repealed.
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.

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He had already been created Viscount Mansfield in 1620, Baron Cavendish of Bolsover and Earl of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1621 and Marquess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1643, and was made Earl of Ogle at the same time as he was given the dukedom.
In 1694 the dukedom was revived when he was created Marquess of Clare and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the Peerage of England.
In 1714 the earldom of Clare was revived when he was created Viscount Haughton, in the County of Nottingham, and Earl of Clare, with remainder to his younger brother Henry Pelham, and the following year the dukedom was also revived when he was made Marquess of Clare and Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with similar remainder to his younger brother Henry.
The district dates back to the Oberamt Ludwigsburg, which was created by the dukedom Württemberg in the beginning of the 19th century.
This was the last royal dukedom to be created with two territorial designations.
Duke of Kent is a title which has been created various times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of George V.
The subsidiary titles of the dukedom are: Marquess of Granby ( created 1703 ), Earl of Rutland ( 1525 ), Baron Manners, of Haddon in the County of Derby ( 1679 ), and Baron Roos of Belvoir, of Belvoir in the County of Leicester ( 1896 ).
The dukedom was created in 1703 for John Sheffield, 1st Marquess of Normanby KG, a notable Tory politician of the late Stuart period, who served under Queen Anne as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council.
Because York's father-in-law's dukedom had become extinct when Anne could not inherit it, he was created Duke of Norfolk and Earl Warennne on 7 February 1477.
With the prospect that the dukedom of Newcastle upon Tyne would become extinct once again, King George II also created the Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne in 1756, with a special remainder for inheritance through his nephew, the 9th Earl of Lincoln.
The Dukedom of Fife was the last dukedom created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, except for those created for sons, grandsons or consorts of the Sovereign.
He became known by the courtesy title Lord Douro when his father was created Earl of Wellington in 1812 and as Marquess of Douro in 1814 after his father was elevated to a dukedom.
Gordon died without legitimate issue in 1836 when the dukedom and remaining titles created in 1684 as well as the titles created in 1784 became extinct.
The last non-royal dukedom was created in 1900, and the last marquessate in 1926.
The second Earl was created Duke of Lauderdale but died without male issue when the dukedom became extinct.
In 1827 the Cleveland title held by his great-grandmother was recreated when he was made Marquess of Cleveland, and in 1833 the dukedom of Cleveland was also revived when he was created Baron Raby, of Raby Castle in the County of Durham, and Duke of Cleveland.
The title was created for the second time in the Peerage of England in 1675 as a subsidiary title of the dukedom of Southampton created in that year for Charles II's illegitimate son Charles Fitzroy.
3rd Baron Sheffield, was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626, and the 3rd Earl of Mulgrave was finally advanced to the dukedom of Buckingham and Normanby.

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The Hertford / Somerset line of Edward and Anne died out with the seventh Duke of Somerset in 1750 ; the descendents of Edward Seymour by his first wife, Catherine Fillol, then inherited the Somerset dukedom in accordance with the original letters of patent.
on Sir Augustus d ' Este's claim to the dukedom of Sussex, Baron de Bode's claim as an English subject to a share in the French indemnity, the dispute as to the debts due to the elector of Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), confiscated by Napoleon, and the constitutional position of the Mecklenburg landowners-were composed by Zachariae.
The dukedom of Cornwall can only be held by the oldest living son of the monarch who is also heir apparent.
The town was almost completely destroyed in 1693, when Christian V of Denmark reduced Ratzeburg to rubble by bombardment in his unsuccessful attempt to push through his succession to the dukedom against the prevailing House of Hanover.
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.
He was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned fourth Earl, who was elevated to a dukedom in 1694.
On the Duke's death in 1768 he was succeeded in the dukedom of Newcastle-under-Lyne according to the special remainder by his nephew, the second Duke ( for further history of this title see the Earl of Lincoln ).
The dukedom was inherited by his second cousin once removed Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch ( see the Duke of Buccleuch for later history of this title ) while the marquessate and earldom of Queensberry passed to his kinsman Sir Charles Douglas, 5th Baronet ( see the Marquess of Queensberry for later history of these titles ).
The dukedom of Albret, united to the crown of France by the accession of this prince, was granted to the family of La Tour d ' Auvergne ( see duc de Bouillon ) in 1651, in exchange for Sedan and Raucourt.
A month or two later Philip was loosed from the papal ban, and in March 1208 it seems probable that a treaty was concluded by which a nephew of the pope was to marry one of Philip's daughters and to receive the disputed dukedom of Tuscany.
The Prose Lancelot relates that when Igraine became Uther's wife she left behind in the dukedom of Tintagel a son of the Duke of Tintagel by a previous marriage.
With his dukedom, Albert Victor was granted a coat of arms, being the royal arms of the United Kingdom, differenced by an inescutcheon of the arms of Saxony and a label of three points argent, the centre point bearing a cross gules.
The Slavic tribes organised into a semi-independent dukedom of Duklja ( Doclea ) by the 9th century.
On the other hand, the German aristocrat Ernst August, Prince of Hanover ( born 1954 ), a male-line descendant of George III of the United Kingdom, possesses no legal British name, titles or styles ( although he is entitled to re-claim the once-royal dukedom of Cumberland ), was born in the line of succession to the British crown and is bound by Britain's Royal Marriages Act 1772.
The fifth and final creation was for Prince Henry, son of George V. Upon Prince Henry's death, the dukedom was inherited by his son Prince Richard, who still holds the title.
The currently Royal dukedom will devolve into an ordinary one when it will be inherited by the Earl of Ulster ; as a great-grandson of a sovereign he lacks any royal style.
In the last year of Gustav ’ s life, 1560, the ancient Livonian Order, had by the secularization of the latter order into the dukedom of Prussia, 1525, had become isolated between hostile Slavonians.
Salisbury was offered a dukedom by Queen Victoria in 1886 and 1892, but declined both offers, citing the prohibitive cost of the lifestyle dukes were expected to maintain.
He was released and pardoned by Queen Mary in 1553, and in Mary's first parliament ( October – December 1553 ), his statutory attainder was declared void, thereby restoring him to the dukedom.

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