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MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF EARLS BUCKINGHAM

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 721 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKES OF EARLS See also:BUCKINGHAM  . The origin of the earldom of See also:Buckingham (to be distinguished from that of See also:Buckinghamshire, q.v.) is obscure . According to Mr J . H . See also:Round (in G . E . C.'s See also:Peerage, s.v.) there is some See also:charter See also:evidence for its existence under See also:William See also:Rufus; but the See also:main evidence for reckoning See also:Walter See also:Giffard, See also:lord of See also:Longueville in See also:Normandy, who held See also:forty-eight lordships in the See also:county, as the first See also:earl, is that of Odericus Vitalis, who twice describes Walter as " Comes Bucchingehamensis," once in 1097, and again at his See also:death in 1102 . After the death of Walter Giffard, 2nd earl in 1164, the See also:title was assumed by See also:Richard de See also:Clare, earl of See also:Pembroke (" Strongbow "), in right of his wife, Rohais, See also:sister of Walter Giffard I.; and it died with him in 1176 . In 1377 See also:Thomas of " See also:Woodstock " (See also:duke of See also:Gloucester) was created earl of Buckingham at the See also:coronation of Richard II . (15th of See also:July), and the title of Gloucester having after his death been given to Thomas le See also:Despenser, his son See also:Humphrey See also:bore that of earl of Buckingham only . On Humphrey's death, his sister See also:Anne became countess of Buckingham in her own right . She married See also:Edmund See also:Stafford, earl of Stafford, and on her death (1438) the title of Buckingham passed to her son Humphrey Stafford, earl of Stafford, who in 1444 was created duke of Buckingham .

This title remained in the Stafford See also:

family until the See also:attainder and See also:execution of See also:Edward, 3rd duke, in 1521 (see BUCKINGHAM, See also:HENRY STAFFORD, 2nd duke of) . In 1617 See also:King See also:James I. created See also:George See also:Villiers earl, in 1618 See also:marquess, and in 1623 duke of Buckingham (see BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1st duke of) . The marquessate and dukedom became See also:extinct with the death of the 2nd (Villiers) duke (q.v.) in 1687; but the earldom was claimed, under the See also:special See also:remainder in the patent of 1617, by a See also:collateral See also:line of doubtful See also:legitimacy claiming descent from See also:John Villiers, 1st See also:Viscount Purbeck . The title was not actually See also:borne after the death of John Villiers, styling himself earl of Buckingham, in 1723 . The claim was extinguished by the death of George Villiers, a See also:clergy-See also:man, in 1774 . In 1703 John See also:Sheffield, marquess of See also:Normanby, was created " duke of the county of Buckingham and of Normanby " (see below) . He was succeeded by his son Edmund who died in See also:October 1735 when the titles became extinct . The title of marquess and duke of Buckingham in the See also:Grenville family (to the holders of which the remainder of this See also:article applies) was derived, not from the county, but from the See also:town of Buckingham . It originated in 1784, when the 2nd Earl See also:Temple was created marquess of Buckingham in the county of Bucking-See also:ham," this title being elevated into the dukedom of Buckingham and See also:Chandos for his son in 1822 .

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