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 ALBEMARLE COMPLETE PEERAGE 87 II. 1884. 2. H.R.H. Leopold Charles Edward George Al- bert, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Albany, Earl of Clarence and Baron Arklow, also Duke of Saxony, posthumous s. and h., b. at Claremont, in Esher, Surrey, 19 July, and privately bap. there, 4 Aug. 1884; sue. to the peerage, as above, at his birth ; sue. his uncle, Prince Alfred, as Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, 30 July i90o;G.C.V.O. 27 Jan. 1901 ; K.G. 15 July 1902. Knight of the Black Eagle, oi the Elephant, &c. He m., 11 Oct. 1905, at GlUcksburg, Victoria Adelheid Helena Louise Marie Frederike, ist da. of Frederik Ferdinand Georg Christian Carl Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein- Sonderburg-GlQcksburg, by Victoria Frederike Augusta Marie Caroline Mathilde, 2nd da. of Frederik Christian August, Duke of Schleswig- Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. She was b. 31 Dec. 1885, at GrUnholz in Denmark. [H.H. Johann Leopold Wilhelm Albert Ferdinand Victor, Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, Duke of Saxony, s. and h. ap., b. 2 Aug. 1906, at the Castle of Callenberg, near Coburg.] ALBEMARLE C) DUKEDOM. I. George Monck, (^) 2nd s. of Sir Thomas Monck, of Potheridge, Devon, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir George Smythe, of Madford in Heavitree, in that co., was b. at 1660. Potheridge, 6, and bap. 11 Dec. 1608, at Lancross. His military achievements and general career are a matter of history. M.P. for Devon (Barebones Pari.) 1653, and again 1660 (having also been elected at the same time for Cambridge Univ.) until made a peer. He was one of the (62) members of Cromwell's House of Lords, being styled therein " George Monke, General in Scotland. " For the active part he took in effecting the restoration of Charles II, at which time he was Commander in Chief of all the Forces for the Pari., and Joint Gen. of the Fleet, he was mm. by that King K.G., being el. and invested at Canterbury, 26 May 1660, and inst. 15 Apr. 1661. On 7 July 1660 he was er. BARON (") Monck was the first person to bear precisely this title, and its history appears to be as follows. His predecessors were Earls or Dukes of Aumale, Aumarle, or Aubemarle, according to the various ways in which the word was spelt. (Oswald Barron informs me that the last is the form which he has usually found in old documents.) Of these words the supposed latin equivalent employed in charters was de Alba Maria, and this expression was, somewhere in the i6th century, docked and anglicised into Albemarle. For some remarks on mediseval English names, see vol. iii, Appendix C. ('') He bore for arms, Gules with a cheveron silver between three lions' heads razed of the same. These are the arms of the ancient Devonshire house of Monck of Potheridge, of which he became heir male on the death of his elder brother. {ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G.