Elizabeth (Cavendish) Montagu (1654 - 1734)

Born 22 Feb 1654 in England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 28 Aug 1734 at age 80 in Newcastle House, London, England

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Biography

Elizabeth (Cavendish) Montagu is Notable.

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Born on the 22nd of February 1654m Elizabeth Cavendish was the third daughter of Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle and his wife, Frances Pierrepont. ^[1][2]

At Whitehall on the 30th of December 1669 she married Christopher Monk, Duke of Albemarle, son of George Monck, Duke of Albemarle and his wife, Anne Clarges. ^{[3] [4]}

Christopher took the post ofGovernor of Jamaica in 1686 and died there on the 6th of October 1688. ^[3]

Elizabeth's second husband was widower, Ralph, Duke of Montagu, son of Edward, Baron Montagu of Boughton and his wife, Anne Winwood. He died on the 9th of March 1709. ^[5]

Elizabeth died on the 28th of August 1734 and was interred on the 11th of September in Westminster Abbey. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Ogle, H.A. (1902). Ogle & Bothal, pp. 78.
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albemarle
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} History of Parliament online 1660-1690: Monck, Christopher, Earl of Torrington (1653-88)
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle
5. ↑ Wikipedia: Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu
6. ↑ Chester, Joseph Lemuel. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster (London, 1876) Page 341-42. Also see footnote #8. "She died, according to the Funeral Book, at Newcastle House, Clerkenwell, Midx., 28 Aug., aged eighty; but the journals of the day, still quoted, stated her age to by ninety-six... her history is too familiar and too painful to require rehearsing."

• Thepeeerage.com: Elizabeth Cavendish Cites: G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 90