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 82 SCHOMBERG. German Foot in Portugal in 166S ; sue. to the peerage, 30 June 1690, under the spec, rem. in its creation ; was Lieut. Gen. in Savoy, 1691 : Cot 1st Keg. of Foot Guards, lf>91 ; Col. of a Reg. of Foot in Piedmont, 1891-93. He it. tram. 17 Oct. 1093, of wounds received on the 4th at the battle of Marsaglia in Piedmont. Will dat. at Turin, 14 Oct., pr. 13 Nov. 1693. IH. 1G93, 3. Meixiiart (de Schonberg, or Sctiomberg), Duke op to SCBOMBERO, MaHQUSSS ok Harwich, EaIU. of BrkKTPORD, and B Alios 1719. Tbtks [E.], also Dckkof Leinstkh, Karl op Bangor, and Baron Tar.v [I.],Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of Merto)a,and a Grandee of Portugal, next elder surv. br., was 6. at Cologne, 30 June 1641, and styled Count Meinhaht ue ScnoMBF.no till 1691 ; was Capt. and Major in Schomberg's Heg. of German Foot in Portugal, 1665-66 ; Col. of Horse in the French army, 1673 ; Gen. of Horse in the English army, 1690 ; Col. of the 4th Heg. of Horse, 1690- 1712; Commander of the Cavalry in Ireland, 1690, being at the battle of the fiovne. He was cr. v.p. 3 March 1691, BARON TAKA. EAUL OF BANGOK, and DUKE OF LE1NSTEK[I.], being naturalised in England. 25 April 1691 ; Com. in Chief [E. and S.], 1691. He sue. to the English peerage as Dlkk of SchouhkRU, &c, 17 Oct. 1693, under the spec rem. in the creation of that dignity, taking his seat. 7 Nov. following; P.C. 1695 ; Lieut -Gen. of the forces 1695 1702 ; el. .md inv. K.G., 12 Aug. and inat 2 Sep. 1703. Com. -in-chief of the forces in Portugal and Ambassador to Lisbon 1703. Field Marshal Gen. of Portugal 1704. He m. 4 Jan. 16S2/3, Caroline Elizabeth^) often spoken of as Charlotte, illegit. da.!' 1 ) of Charles Louis. Elector Palatine of the Rhine, by Louisa, da. of Christopher Martin, Baron of Degenfeld. She, who was b. 19 Nov. 1659, d. at Kensingun, 2S June and was bur. 11 July 1696, in Westm. Abbey. ( c ) He rf. s.p.m.s.( d ) at Hillingdon, co. Middx. 5 July and wis postponed to his two yr. brothers in the limitation of the English Peerage, and who in. Catherina Ernestina, da. of John Christopher, Baron of Rocholtz), was living Oct. 1693 but </. at Wesel, apparently s.p. (a) See Col. Chester's somewhat elaborate note to her burial, in his " Westm. Abhcj) Registers" as to her christian name being Caroline and not Charlotte, which names at that period were, unquestionably, interchangeable. ( b ) "English genealogists omit to mention her illegitimacy. Is enim [Carolns Ludovicus Princeps Elector] cum orto inter ipsum et uxorem, Carolam Landgravinni Hassitc, dissiilio et divoitio, l.uisam Degenb ldiam, Christophori Martini Liberi Barunia de Degenfeld, S. Rom. Imperii Equitis. et Anna' Marias Adelmannia; ab Adelinans- felden filiam, in thonmi aseivisset et legitiimc conjugis loco habuisaet, Haugi.ni»m earn appellaii voluit. idqne nominis in sobolem, quam numerosam ex ea sustulit, derivavit. Amisit ilia vitam, cum epiartam et deeimam prolem in utero gestnretd. 18 Mart, anni 1677. (Imhoff, Not. Imp., 1693, p. 133.) Of her 13 children Charlotte abovementioned was the second." [tx. inform. G. W. Watson.] They are said to have been married in 1658. by a Lutheran Clergyman, he having re- pudiated his wife, Caroline. She, whom he married 12 Feb. 1650, survived this lady, and d. 16 March 16S6, aged 59. (•) Mention is made somewhere [Qy. in a French biographical diet, in the Bodleian library ?] of " Louise Barbe de Rizzi, epouse pretendu de Meinhart, C'jrote de Schonberg." (<') The English honours conferred on his father would have devolved on his eldest br., Fiederic (see p. 81, note " f "), if alive or on his issue male if any, but he who was alive in Oct. 1693 U. at Wesel, apparently s.p.rr. before 1719. The date of his death is given in a printed German pedigree (belonging to Arthur Schomberg above- named) as " 5 Pec. 1700," but Courthope states that he was " living at ' Jtiwjau in Gressenlieim ' in Germany (probably Geissenheim in the Klieingau) in 1715." The first Duke had apparently but one uncle whose da. and h. he married (as in the text) but be had a great uncle, Frederic de Schonberg, whose only son, Simon Rudolf (some time Ambassador for the Emperor at Madrid) had two sons, of whom (1) Otho Frederic, General of Cavalry and Artillery for the Emperor, was slain at the battle of Leijisic 7 Sep. 1631 ; and (2) John Charles, Councillor to the Emperor Ferdinand II., who was father of Emanuel Maximilian William, Count of Schonberg, Gent, of the Bed- chamber to the Emperor, who m. but ri. s.p. 1682. The will of a "Frederick Christian, Count of Schomburgh," who ci. abroad, was pr. Aug. 1781.