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 io6 BELLOMONT II. 1656 2. Charles Rupert Bard,(^) Viscount BellomontC") to AND Baron Bard of Dromboy [I. 1645], only s. and h., 1667. b. I Jan. 1647/8, d. a minor and unm., being slain, 19 June 1667, when an officer in the Barbados regt., in an attempt to recapture the Island of St. KItts from the French, when the Viscountcy became extinct.(f) EARLDOM [I.] I. Charles Henry Kirkhoven {rectius van den Kerch- T rn hove), s. and h. of Jan. van den Kerch hove, otherwise PoLYANDER, LoRD OF Henvliet, in Zealand, by Kathe- >.„ rine, suo jure Countess of Chesterfield (widow of Sir ^' Henry Stanhope, styled]_.OK'D Stanhope), ist da. and coh. of Thomas (Wotton), 2nd Baron Wotton, was, by patent dat. at St. John- stoun, in Scotland, 31 Aug. 1650,0 cr. BARON WOTTON of Wotton, Kent, and by patent dat. 9 Dec. 1680 (enrolled [I.] 11 Feb. 1680/1), was cr. "EARL OF BELLOMONT in our Kingdom of Ireland." He w., 25 Aug. 1679, at Swarkeston, co. Derby, Frances, widow of Sir John Harpur, of Swarkeston afsd. (which Sir John was bur. there 20 Feb. 1678/9), da. of William (Willoughby), 6th Baron Willoughby of Par- ham, by Anne, da. of Sir Philip Cary, of Aldenham, Herts. He d. s.p.y 5, and was bur. 11 Jan. 1682/3, in Canterbury Cathedral, when all his honours became extinct. Will (signed "Bellomont") dat. 6 Oct. 1682, pr. 14 July 1688. His widow, who was ^.12 Nov. 1642, in Aldersgate Str., London (birth reg. at Hunsdon, Herts), m., 3rdly, 3 July 1684, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields (Lie. Vic. Gen., he about T,2>y bach., she about 37, widow), Henry Heveningham, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk, who d. 21 Nov. 1700. She d. s.p.^ at Swarkeston, 25 May, and was bur. there 4 June 1714. M.I. Will dat. 9 Mar. 1712, pr. May 1714. II. 1689. I. Richard (Coote), Lord CooTE, Baron of CoLooNY [I.], 2nd, but 1st surv. s. and h. of Richard, ist Lord (*) His name does not appear in Ulster's Roll, i66i. {ex inform. G. D. Burt- chaell). V.G. See Line. Ped., Harl. Soc, also statement in Misc. Gen. et Her., 2nd Ser., vol. V, p. 80, by Charles Best NorclifFe, who, however, gives the date of the Viscount's death wrongly. A trustworthy ped. of the Bard family by G. S. S[teinman] is in Co/I. Top. et Gen., vol. iv, pp. 59-61. C') So spelt (and rightly spelt) in the actual enrolment. if) Of his sisters and coheirs, Frances, the elder, became mistress to Prince Rupert, and was mother, by him, of Dudley Bard, slain in her lifetime, when aged 20, at the siege of Buda, in 1686. As to her m. certificate, see note sub I Duke of Cumberland. She d. in the Margrave of Baden's Court at Carlsruhe in 1708, aged 62. Persiana, the yr., m. her cousin, Nathaniel Bard, of Caversfield, and d. between 23 June and 30 Nov. 1739. There was a third sister, Anne, who appears to have d. unm. after 1668, when she was administratrix to her mother. {^) For a list of peerages cr. by Charles II when in exile, see vol. v, Appendix E. ('') He never took his seat in the House of Lords [I.] as no pari, met in Ireland whilst he held the title, {ex injorm. G. D. Burtchaell). V.G.