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About Charles Skelton
- 'Lt.-Gen. Charles Skelton1
- M, #338302
- Last Edited=25 Feb 2009
- ' Lt.-Gen. Charles Skelton married Lady Barbara Lennard, daughter of Thomas Lennard, 1st and last Earl of Essex and Lady Anne Palmer.1
- ' He was decorated with the award of Knight Grand Cross, Order of St. Louis.1 He gained the rank of Lieutenant-General in the service of the French Army.1
- Citations
- 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1014. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
- http://thepeerage.com/p33831.htm#i338302
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- She was born Anne Palmer on 25 February 1661 or 1662 at Westminster, England.[1] She was the first child of Barbara Palmer, who was the wife of Roger Palmer, 1st Earl of Castlemaine, and who was also a mistress of Charles II. According to legend, Anne was conceived on the night of Charles's Coronation. Both Palmer and the king acknowledged Anne as his daughter and she later took on the surname of Fitzroy, meaning "son of the king," but she is generally assigned to the 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, "whom," says Lord Dartmouth, "she resembled very much both in face and person."[2] ....
- Anne's husband the Earl of Sussex was a "popular but extravagant man"[5] who, by extravagance and losses by gambling, had to sell the estate of Herstmonceaux and others. Lord and Lady Sussex separated in 1688. She was widowed in 1715.
- The children of her union with Sussex were two sons, who died in infancy; and two daughters, who lived to adulthood, co-heirs of the Barony Dacre:[6]
- '1.Barbara Lennard: born 12 July 1676 at Westminster, London; died 1741 at Paris. Married Charles Skelton, Esq., Lieutenant-General in the French service, and Grand Croix de St. Louis. Died without issue. .....
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Lennard,_Countess_of_Sussex
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