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 DENBIGH. 59 DENBIGH. Sir Roisert Dudley, kg., b. 7 Sep. 1534, was ou 2S Sep. 1564, cr. BARON OF DENBIGH with rem. to the heirs of his body and on the following day was cr. EARL OF LEICESTER with the usual limitation. See fuller particulars under that diguity. He d. B.p. legit. 1 Se]>. 1583, when all hi* honours became extinct.^) Earldom. /, "William FeildixgC') of Nownham Paddock in t Ifioo Monk's Kirby, co. Warwick, s. and h. of Basil F. of the same, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Walter Aston, of Tixall, co. Stafford, was b. about 1582 ; ed. at Email. Coll., Cambridge ; knighted 4 March 1 006/7, at Whitehall ; and, having m. about 1007, Susan, only sister of the whole blood to George, afterwards (1623-29) the celebrated Duke ok Buckingham, da. of Sir George Villieks, by his 2d wife Mary, suo jure. Countess ok Buckingham, obtained great favour at Court. Ou 30 Dec. 1020, he was cr. BARON OF NEWNHA.M PAD- DOOKES, co. Warwick and VISCOUNT FEIL0ING,(°) and on U Sep. 1022, EARL OF DENBIGH.( C ) He was master of the wardrobe, 1622, having been deputy master since 1019 ; was one of the attendants on the Prince of Wales at the Spanish Court in 1023 ; was cr. M.A. of Cambridge 3 March 1027 ; was an Admiral in several expedi- tions; a volunteer in Prince Rupert's horse, 1012, and being mortally wounded in a skirmish near Birmingham the 3d d. of his woimdsC 1 ) 8 April 1043 and was bw. at Kirby. Admon. 8 June 1051, to a creditor. His wife was living 1631.(«) II. 1G43. 2. Basil (Feildinc:), Earl of Denbigh, &c, 1st s. and h., b. about 1008, styled Viscount Feildino, 1622-43 ; ed. at Eman. Coll., Cambridge ; K.B. 2 Feb. 1025,0, at the Coronation. He was sum. to the House of Lords, v.p. 21 and took his seat 24 March 162S/9 in his father's Barony, as LOUD FKILDINU OF NEWNHAM PADOX: was Ambassador to Venice, 1634-39. In opposition to his father, having joiued the Pari, faction, he was, by them, made, v.p., in 1642, Lord Lieut, of eo. Denbigh and co. Flint, and subsequently, 1643, Lord Lieut, of co. Warwick ; was at the battle of Edgchill and was Col. of a Reg. of Horse in the Pari, army, Major- Gen. in command at Coventry and in several of the Midland Counties, &c., aud in 1644 was one of the Parliamentary Commissioners to the King.( f ) As, however, he concurred in the restoration he was, 2 Feb. 1063/4, cr. BARON ST. LIZ,(«J with a spec. rem. failing the heirs male of his Barony. I. 1564 to 1588. which, also the family of Montalt, Lords of Hawarden Castle (one of whom is said to have been one of the Barons of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester in 1070), derived their name. From Montalt [though, perhaps, Monluiult] by "a remarkable contraction " [see Lower's " Family names "J, we arrive at Maude. (") His infant s. and h. ap. who d. v.p. 19 July 1584, is styled, on his mou. at St, Mary's, Warwick, " the noble impe, Robert of Dudley, Baron of Denbigh." ( b ) His ancestor Geothey Feilding, of Misterton, eo. Leic.'is said to have styled himself in abetter, 11 June (1310), 9 Ed. II, " filiua Galfridi, filii Galfridi, Comitis de Hapsburgh et Domini Laufenburgh et Rin fcldcn in Germania," and to have accordingly taken the name of Fcldcn, having pretension to that diguity. No mention, however, of this illustrious origin is made in the Heralds' Visitations. ( c ) See " Creations 1483-1040," in ap. 47th Rep. D. K. Pub. llecords. The patent of 1062 declares the grant to be " ob generis claritatem et nuptial admodum honorandas sed proecipue ob eximiam virtutein et erga uos et coronam nostram fidem." ('') See "the Loyalists Bloody Koll," vol. 1, p. 194, note "c," sub " AuBiaxY." See also Lord Clarendon's character of him. (°) It would (almost) appear from a letter of Charles II to Henry Bennet dat. at Cologne 8 June 1055, that she had died there recently. (0 His somewhat despicable character is set forth by Clarendon, who gives him credit for " much greater parts than either of the other three " commissioners. It appears that he said ho would most willingly " serve the King si'jnally but that to lose himself without any benefit to the King he would decline.", («) It is difficult to imagine what amount of dignity was considered as being there- hy gained as ho had already a Barony of more ancient date vested in him. One of his ancestors had m. Agues da. and h. of John Seyton which name is said to be the same as that of St. Liz, the last name having been the patronymic of the (early) Earls o£ Northampton and Huntingdon t» the 121k century.