Lady Diana Manners

Lady Diana Bruce (d. 15 July 1672), married firstly, Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Baronet, on 29 January 1666;[6] married secondly, on 10 November 1671, John Manners, Lord Roos, who became Duke of Rutland after her death.[7]

• 'Lady Diana Bruce1
• 'F, #11777, d. 15 July 1672
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• ' Lady Diana Bruce was the daughter of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin and Lady Diana Grey.1 She married, firstly, Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Bt., son of Sir Robert Shirley, 4th Bt. and Catherine Okeover, on 29 January 1666.2 She married, secondly, John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland, son of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Hon. Frances Montagu, on 20 November 1671. She died on 15 July 1672.2
• ' From 29 January 1666, her married name became Shirley. Her married name became Manners.
• ' Child of Lady Diana Bruce and Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Bt.
  • 1.Sir Robert Shirley, 6th Bt.3 b. Jan 1667/68, d. c 8 Mar 1708/9
• 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 1295. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 1416.
• 3.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p1178.htm#i11777
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• 'John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland and 9th Earl of Rutland (Boughton, 29 May 1638 – 10 January 1711, Belvoir Castle) was the son of John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland and Frances Montagu. His maternal grandparents were Sir Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton and his wife Elizabeth Jeffries. He was styled Lord Roos from 1641 until 1679.
• He married, firstly, Lady Anne Pierrepont, daughter of Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester, on 15 July 1658. The failure of their marriage attacted considerable attention, as divorce was not generally available at the time. He obtained a "separation from bed and board" in 1663 on grounds of her adultery, and private Acts of Parliament in 1667 bastardizing her issue since 1659 and granting him permission to remarry in 1670. This process required considerable expenditure and trouble.
• 'He married, secondly, Lady Diana Bruce, daughter of Robert Bruce, 2nd Earl of Elgin, on 10 November 1671. She died on 15 July 1672 in childbed.
• He married, thirdly, Catherine Wriothesley Noel (d. 1733), daughter of Baptist Noel, 3rd Viscount Campden, on 8 January 1673 They had three children:
  • John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland (1676–1721)
  • Lady Catherine Manners (c. 1682–1722), married John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower and had issue.
  • Lady Dorothy Manners (c. 1690–1734), married Baptist Noel, 3rd Earl of Gainsborough and had issue.
• He served, rather passively, as Member of Parliament for Leicestershire from 1661 until 1679. Politically he was a Whig, but did not attend court after 1689, preferring the life of a country magnate.
• Lord Roos succeeded his father as Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire in 1677, and proved an effective deputy of the crown. His invitation to Lord Sherard to stand with him for Leicestershire instead of a gentry candidate upset the Leicestershire gentry, and the Commons disallowed Roos' election. He was created Baron Manners of Haddon on 30 April 1679 and sent to the House of Lords instead, but succeeded as Earl of Rutland on 29 September 1679 at the death of his father. He retained his lord lieutenancy in 1681, despite supporting the Exclusion Bill, but was turned out by James II in 1687. Reappointed in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution, he resigned in 1702, to protest Government promotion of Tory interests in Leicestershire. He was briefly Custos Rotulorum of Leicestershire thereafter (22 August 1702 – 22 March 1703). On 29 March 1703, his long support of Whig government was rewarded by his creation as Duke of Rutland and Marquess of Granby. Rutland was reappointed to the lord lieutenancy in 1706, which he retained until his death on 10 January 1711.
• See also
• List of deserters from James II to William of Orange
• References
• Morrin, Jean (2004). "Manners, John, first duke of Rutland (1638–1711)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2006-10-14.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Manners,_1st_Duke_of_Rutland
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• 'John [Manners], 1st Baron Manners of Haddon later 9th Earl of Rutland later 1st Duke of Rutland
• '1st son and hr. of John [Manners], 8th Earl of Rutland, by his wife Hon Frances Montagu, 2nd dau. by his second wife of Frances [Montagu], 1st Baron Montagu
• 'born: 29 May 1638
• mar. (1) 15 Jul 1658 (div. by Act of Parliament 8 Feb 1667/8 with the effect that both his sons by her became illegitimate) Lady Anne Pierrepont (bapt. 9 Mar 1630/1; mar. (2) ..... Vaughan; d. bef. Jan 1696/7), 1st dau. and cohrss. of Henry [Pierrepont], 1st Marquess of Dorchester, by his first wife Hon Cecilia Bayning, 1st dau. of Paul [Bayning], 1st Viscount Bayning
• children by first wife
  • 1. John Manners (d. aft. 11 May 1699)
  • 2. Charles Manners (d. aft. 11 May 1699)
• 'mar. (2) 10 Nov 1671 Lady Diana Shirley (widow of Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Bt., of Staunton Harold, co. Warwick; dsps. 15 Jul 1672), 1st dau. of Robert [Bruce], 2nd Earl of Elgin, by his wife Lady Diana Grey, 2nd dau. of Henry [Grey], 2nd Earl of Stamford
• 'only child by second wife
  • 3. Robert Manners (b. and d. 15 Jul 1672)
• mar. (3) 8 Jan 1673/74 Hon Catherine Noel (b. 10 Aug 1657; d. 24 Jan 1732/3), 1st dau. of Baptist [Noel], 3rd Viscount Campden, by his fourth wife Lady Elizabeth Bertie, dau. by his first wife of Montagu [Bertie], 2nd Earl of Lindsey
• children by third wife
  • 4. Lord John Manners, later 2nd Duke of Rutland
  • 1. Lady Catherine Manners (b. 19 May 1675; d. 7 Mar 1722/3), mar. Sep 1692 John [Leveson-Gower], 1st Baron Gower, and had issue
  • 2. Lady Dorothy Manners (b. 13 Sep 1681; d. 27 Apr 1739), mar. bef. 13 Feb 1706/7 her 1st cousin Baptist [Noel], 3rd Earl of Gainsborough, and had issue
• 'died: 10 Jan 1710/1
• created: by writ of summons 6 Mar 1679 Baron Manners of Haddon: 29 Mar 1703 Marquess of Granby and Duke of Rutland
• suc. by: son by third wife
• note: Member of Parliament for Leicestershire 1661-79; suc. his father 29 Sep 1679 as 9th Earl of Rutland; Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire 1677-87, 1698-1703 and 1706; Recorder of Grantham 1677
• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Rutland1703.htm
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  • ' t John Manners, ninth Earl and first Duke of Rutland (1638-1711) ; married, first, 1658, Lady Anne Pierrepoint, daughter of Henry, Marquis of Dorchester; she was divorced and her children disabled from inheriting by Act of Parliament in 1668. Lord Rutland married, secondly, 1671, Lady Diana Bruce, daughter of Robert, Earl of Ailesbury, and widow of Sir Seymour Shirley; and thirdly, in 1673, the Hon. Catherine Noel, daughter of Viscount Camden, by whom he had an only son, afterwards the second Duke.
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• Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury and 2nd Earl of Elgin, PC, FRS (ca. March 1626 – 20 October 1685) was the son of Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin.
• During his father's lifetime, Lord Kinloss, as he was styled, was Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire in the Parliament of 1660 and the following Parliament of 1661, until he succeeded to his father's titles in 1663. The following year (18 March 1664) he was created Earl of Ailesbury, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill and Baron Bruce of Skelton for his services in procuring the English Restoration. He was Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire from 1660 with the Earl of Cleveland and solely from 1667 to his death. He was also Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and Hampshire from 1681 to his death.
• In October 1678, he was invested as a Privy Counsellor (PC) and a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. In 1685, he was invested as a Fellow of the Royal Society and Lord Chamberlain on 30 July 1685.
• He married Lady Diana Grey, daughter of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford, on 16 February 1645. They had seventeen children, nine of which seem to have survived to adulthood:
  • Hon. Edward Bruce (b. 1644/5, d. 1662).
  • Thomas Bruce, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (b. 1656, d. 16 December 1741).[1]
  • Hon. Henry Bruce (b. 1656?, d. young).
  • ' Lady Diana Bruce (d. 15 July 1672); married firstly Sir Seymour Shirley, 5th Baronet on 29 January 1666;[2] married secondly John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland on 10 November 1671.[3]
  • Mary Bruce (b. 31 December 1657, bur. 15 May 1711),[4] married Sir William Walter, 2nd Baronet.[5]
  • Lady Christian (or Christiana) Bruce (2nd Christian?, b. 1658),[6] married firstly John Rolle, son and heir of Sir John Rolle of Stevenstone in St Giles in the Wood, on 4 June 1677 at Ampthill;[7] married secondly Sir Richard Gayer (or Geyer or Gere) of Stoke Poges.
  • Lady Anne Bruce (1st Anne, b. ca. 1660, d. before 1717);[8] married Sir William Rich, 2nd Baronet in 1672.[9]
  • Hon. Robert Bruce (1st Robert?, d. 1652).
  • Hon. Charles Bruce (d. 1661).
  • Hon. Bernard (or Barnard) Bruce (b. 1666, d. 1669).
  • Arabella Bruce (d. young).
  • Anne Charlotte Bruce (2nd Anne, bur. 13 March 1713);[10] married Sir Nicholas Bagnall/Bagenall of Newry, a grandson of Henry Bagenal.[11]
  • Henrietta Bruce; married Thomas Ogle.
  • Hon. Robert Bruce (2nd Robert?, d. 1728).
  • Hon. James Bruce (d. 1738).
  • Christian Bruce (1st Christian?, d. young).
  • Elizabeth Bruce (d. young).
• Lord Ailesbury died in 1685, aged 58 at Houghton House, just north of Ampthill, Bedfordshire, and was buried on 26 October of that year, at Maulden. His widow built Ampthill House nearby in 1686, originally as a dower house.
• References
• 1.^ Stirnet: Bruce05 (Thomas Bruce, 3rd Earl of Elgin, 2nd Earl of Ailesbury)
• 2.^ Stirnet: Shirley2 (Seymour Shirley, 5th Bart of Staunton Harold)
• 3.^ Stirnet: Manners2 (John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland)
• 4.^ Stirnet: Bruce05 (Mary Bruce)
• 5.^ Stirnet: WZmisc04 (William Walter, 2nd Bart of Saresden)
• 6.^ Stirnet: Bruce05 (Christian Bruce)
• 7.^ Stirnet: Rolle1 (John Rolle, younger of Stevenstone)
• 8.^ Stirnet: Bruce05 (Anne Bruce)
• 9.^ Stirnet: Rich3 (Sir William Rich, 2nd Bart of Sonning)
• 10.^ Stirnet: Bruce05 (Anne Charlotte Bruce)
• 11.^ Stirnet: Bagnall01 (Sir Nicholas Bagnall/Bagenall of Newry)
• External links
• Stirnet: Bruce05 (subscription required to view without interruption; contains the 1st Earl of Ailesbury and numerous close relatives in the Bruce family)
• Website with information about the Ailesbury Mausoleum at Maulden
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bruce,_2nd_Earl_of_Elgin
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