6f, LENNOX. mother's fourth cousin), K»th*iiu*,(») 9th child of Onillaume de VUi.sac, Sjaesnra D'Estbaoijes (slain 1558), by Louise, da. of .loan, Ser;neur D'Humibrks. Ho (I. at Paris of a fever. 26 May 15S3, aged about 10, und was Inn: at A ul-iirn v. His widow distinguished herself in defending the town of Aulugny, Jan. 1590 1, during the wars of the League and, having survived her husband nearly 50 years, fl. about 1631 or being liviug, tho' in great years and weakness," II Dec. I630.( b ) Dukedom fs.]" 2. Ludovic (Rtuaut) Duke of Lbnnox, &c. jr j Heritable Great Chamberlain [S.J, s. and h., A. 29 8ei>. ^ 15S3 L"4 ; SMC. to the peerage [S.] 26 May 1583, hut not to Earldom [S.] i ' the Seigneurie of Aubigny in France. He returned to „ T „ | Scotland about 1584 and was in high favour at Court. AAA* J President of the Privy Council TS.] 1539; Joint Lieut, of Scotland. Nov. 1589 to May 1590; Chamberlain of the Household [S.] 1590 ; High Admiral [S.] 1591. Had "a grant of the disestablished religiuus house of St. Andrew's in 15fl.3.(°) Ambassador [is.] to England, 1601. He attended the King to England, on his accession, as James I., to that throne in 1603, a&d was there naturalised 18 July l<i03 ; Gent, of the Bedchamber and I'.C, 1603 ; el. K.G., 25 June and inst. 9 July 1603 ; was a: M.A , of Oxford, on thu occasion of the King'R visit there, 30 Aug. 1605 ;', J ) Ambassador to Paris. 1601 1605, and again, 1613; High Commissioner to the Scotch Pari. 1603. Be was <•>•. on 6 Oct. 1613, BARON OF SETIIINGTOX, co. York, and EARL <>E RICHMOND, and on 17 May 1623, EARL OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TVNE and DUKE OF RICHMOND, He was Deputy Earl Marshal, 1614 ' Steward of the Household, 1615-24 ; Lord Lieut, of Kent, 1620, and Joint Commissioner of the Great Seal. May to July 1621. He m- firstly, Sophia, 3d da. of William ( III thvbn), 1st Earl ok Gowfiik. [S.], by Dorothea, da. of Henry (Stewart), 2d Loud Mktiiven [S] She (/. before June 1590. Hem. secondly, Jane, widow of the Hon. Robert Montoo'ieeik (who </• Aug. 1596), sister of Hugh, 1st Loan Campbell ok Loudoun |S.j, da, of Sir Matthew Campbell, of Loudoun, by Isabel, da. of Sir John DbuMMOXD- He nt. thirdly. June 1621, Frances, Dow. Countess ok Hertford (relict of Henry Pranih., of London), da. of Thomas (Howard), 1st Viscount Howard or P.indon, by his third wife, Mabel, da. of Nicholas Burton. He d. s.p.s. legit. 16 Feb. 1623/1, in his 50th year at St. Andrew's Holborn and was 5un the 17th in Westm. Abbey, when the iJukcdoui and frtrld-on of Rlchiiimtd, the Earblma nf Nocotutle-Hpiin-T-tim and the Barony of Setriifftott became (xtinct, but the Seot-.-h dignities devolved on his br. and h. Admon. 13 March 1623. 1. His widow d. s.p., at Exeter house, Strand, 8, and was but: 12 Oct. 1639. in Westui. Abbey, aged 63. Funeral cert, in Public Record ollice. Will dat. 23 July and pr. 31 Oct. 1639. Dukedom [s.]" 3. Es.ue (Stuvrt), Puke of Len'vox, &c jj[ [S.], also Haul ok March, &e., br. and h.. b 157^, ed, , 1 623 /J at L,u ' v - "f Botirges; sue. bis father (tho' the Earldom [S.] ' ' second son), 26 .May 153 ;. as 7th Seigneur D'Aubigny. Tjy aud did homage for the same to Henry IV., King oi ■*■** J France, 8 April 160(1 ; naturalised in England, 21 May 1603; High Steward of Grafton, Sc., 1609; Gent, of the Bedchamber; Joint Lord Lieut, of eo. Hunting Ion, 1619, Sto, Having TO, in or before 1609. Katharine, who on the death of her father in Oct. 1613 became {de j'irt) sun jure. BaRON BBS Ci.ikton OK LeiouioN Ban ISWOL!) (sen that dignity), he was it. 7 June 1619, BARON STLJAliT OF LEIGH PO-V BUOMSVVOLD, co. Uttuttng.lon, ( :l ) She and her husband were both descended from the French Armagnacs and Bourbons and the Italian Viscoritis, Scaligers and Uorias. See tabular pedigiee in Lady Eliz. Dust's " StwirU of Aubiyng," as on p. 65, note "d." ( b ) See p. 65, note " d." (') See vol. iv. p. 247, uote "a," tub " Holyruod house " for a list of some of these grants. (") See vol. iii, p. 236, note "a," sub "Effingham," for the names of those m created.
