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 6o COMPLETE PEERAGE ailesbury only child that had issue, of Henry Seymour, styied Lord Beauchamp, by Mary, da. of Arthur (Capell) ist Lord Capell, which Henry was s. and h. ap. of William, ist Marquess of Hertford, afterwards (1660) Duke of Somerset. (") On 12 Dec. 1671, by the death of her br., Wil- liam, the 3rd Duke, the estates of Tottenham and Savernake forest, Wilts, devolved on her, as also the representation as senior coh. [heir of line] of Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII, through the families of Grey and Brandon. She d. in childbed, in the Tower (") (of alarm at her husband's danger) 12, and was bur. 27 Jan. 1696/7, aged 41, at Maulden. Bur. reg. I May 1697, at St. Anne's, Soho. liem., 2ndly, 27 Apr. 1 700, at Brussels, Charlotte Jacqueline, suo jure Countess of Esneux and Baroness of Mels- broeck, posthumous da. and h. of Louis Conrad d'Argenteau, Count of Esneux, by Marie Gilberte, only da. and h. of Jean de Locquenghien, Baron OF Melsbroeck. Q She d. s.p.m.^ ('') 13/23 July 1710, of fever, in her 31st year, at Brussels, and was bur. there in the Church of the Brigittines. (") (*) The Duke was grandson and h. of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, by Katharine (next sister to the unfortunate Lady Jane Grey), da. and, in her issue, sole h. to Frances (wife of Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset, afterwards Duke of Suffolk), the 1st da. and coh. of Mary Tudor, Queen Dowager of France, by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. According to the will of Henry VIII, he and his said ancestors would, since 1603, have been entitled to the crown of England, to the exclusion of the House of Stuart. C") " On 12 Jan. my dearest wife, who had just sat down to dinner, and asking what was the meaning of the cannon firing, they were so indiscreet as to tell her that the King was going to pass the Bill against Sir John Fenwick. She fell backwards in her great chair and never spoke more. About 12 at night she was delivered of a daughter in the 8th month, and then expired No man ever had such a wife, and endowed with all the most rare qualities that ever woman enjoyed. [Memoirs of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury.) V.G. i^) Argenteau (in Flemish, Erckenteel) on the Meuse, and Esneux on the Ourthe, both in the province of Li^ge. The pedigree of Argenteau is in Butkens, Trophhs de Brabant, 1724-6, vol. ii, pp. 222-227 • that of Locquenghien in dnnales de r Acad. d'Archhl. de Belgique, 1st Series, vols, xi-xiv, 1854-7. The parents of Jean de Locquenghien were Charles (/>. 6 June 1591, d. 14 Oct. 1670), cr. Baron of Mels- broeck in Brabant by Philip, King of Castile, 17 Mar. 1659 '■> ^^^ Mary [m. 23 Oct. 1617, 1^. 18 Sep. 1664), da. of William Middleton, a Scottish captain in the service of His Catholic Majesty. Both were bur. in the Church of the Brigittines at Brussels. [ex inform. G.W. Watson.) V.G. C) " There was scarce her equal in goodness and sweetness, and generous to the last degree, the reverse of her mother." [Memoirs of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury.) V.G. C) Her only child, Marie Thdr^se Charlotte [b. 19/30 Sep. 1704, d. 19/30 Nov. 1736), m. as 1st wife, 6/17 June 1722, Maximilian Emmanuel, Prince of Horncs(A. 31 Aug. 1695, d. 12 Jan. 1763). Their 2nd da. and coh., Elisabeth Philippine Claude {b. 10 May 1733, d. 25 Jan. 1826), m. 22 Oct. 1751, Gustav Adolf, Prince of Stolberg-Gedern [h. 6 July 1722, //. 5 Dec. 1757). The latter's ist da. and coh., Louise Maximilienne Caroline Emanuele, rn. Charles Edward Stuart, " the Young Pretender. " See below under " Albany, " titular Earl of. [ex inform. G.W. Watson.) V.G.