• title Earl of Bolingbroke has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Jacobite Peerage. The creation in the Peerage of England...
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    1622, and distant cousin of the Barons St John of Bletsoe, later Earls of Bolingbroke. John St John later represented Wiltshire in Parliament and was a...
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    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (/ˈsɪndʒɪn ˈbɒlɪŋbrʊk/; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and...
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    subsumed within the title Earl of Bolingbroke which was granted to the fourth Baron. The Earldom died out with the third Earl, but the Barony continued...
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    Bolingbroke Castle is a ruined castle in Bolingbroke (now Old Bolingbroke) in Lincolnshire, England. Most of the castle is built of Spilsby greenstone...
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    Earl of Jersey, is a title in the Peerage of England. It is held by a branch of the Villiers family, which since 1819 has been the Child Villiers family...
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  • Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), Tory party Jacobite grandee and British statesman Other Lords Bolingbroke, bearing the titles: Earl of Bolingbroke Viscount...
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  • Earl of Lincoln, 2nd Baron of Kendal, Lord of Bolingbroke. He was the son of Roger FitzGerold (de Roumare), 1st Baron of Kendal, Lord of Bolingbroke and...
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    Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, KB (1580? – June/July 1646), known from 1618 until 1624 as 4th Baron St John of Bletso, was an English nobleman...
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    7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton, KG (March 25, 1342 – January 16, 1373) was the son of William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton...
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    namesake of Oliver St John, whose elder brother Sir John St John was the ancestor of the Barons St John of Bletso and the Earls of Bolingbroke. Moreover...
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  • of Henry St John, 1st Viscount St John, by his 2nd wife Angelica Pelissary. Henrietta was thus half-sister of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke...
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    "Bolingburh" or similar (burh of Bolla's people). William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln (born c. 1096), may have built Bolingbroke Castle in the 12th century...
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  • Henry St John (MP for Huntingdon) (category Date of death not in Wikidata)
    became Earl of Bolingbroke. Archaeologia Cambrensis (1861) Knights of England John Nichols The progresses, processions, and magnificent festivities of King...
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  • d'Avranches - the Earl of Chester, the patronage of kings William II Rufus and Henry I Beauclerc, and his marriage to Lucy, heiress of the Bolingbroke-Spalding...
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    until he was released in August 1399 after Henry Bolingbroke's capture of Richard II. After Bolingbroke deposed Richard and became king as Henry IV, Beauchamp...
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    Bolingbroke 1639–1646 (Parliamentary) Robert Bruce, Lord Bruce of Whorlton 1646 (Parliamentary; nominated by House of Lords) Henry Grey, 10th Earl of...
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    one of the overseers. Some believe[citation needed] Richard intended to make Edmund his heir despite the stronger claims of Henry of Bolingbroke and Edmund...
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    Mary de Bohun (category Daughters of British earls)
    1369/70 – 4 June 1394) was the first wife of Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Northampton and Hereford and the mother of King Henry V. Mary was never queen, as...
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    on hearing of Bolingbroke's landing in Yorkshire, capitulated to Bolingbroke at Berkeley on 27 July. Edward speedily deserted to Bolingbroke as well and...
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    first Earl of Leicester jure uxoris. Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester (1367–1413, became king in 1399) Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester...
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    Aristocracy (redirect from Rule of the best)
    (aristokratíā) 'rule of the best'; from ἄριστος (áristos) 'best' and κράτος (krátos) 'power, strength') is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small...
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  • May 1628, John Carey married Dorothy St. John, daughter of Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, and Elizabeth Paulet. Dorothy was buried 18 June 1628...
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    Bolingbroke, was King of England from 1399 to 1413. Henry was the son of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of King Edward III), and Blanche of Lancaster...
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    Lords Appellant (category Richard II of England)
    Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. These were later joined by: Henry Bolingbroke, Earl of Derby (the future king Henry IV) and Thomas de Mowbray, Earl of Nottingham...
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    from the commission of the peace in several counties. In print, Pulteney was inferior to Bolingbroke alone among the antagonists of Walpole, but in parliament...
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  • deposer, Henry Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV (1399–1413). He was the third son of Thomas Holland by his wife Joan of Kent, "The Fair Maid of Kent". Joan...
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    Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke (4th Baron St John of Bletso) (d. 1646) (created Earl of Bolingbroke in 1624) Baron St John of Lydiard Tregoze, created...
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  • ward of the crown, along with Henry of Monmouth (the future King Henry V), eldest son and heir of Henry Bolingbroke (the future King Henry IV). Richard...
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    Oliver St John (category Chancellors of the University of Cambridge)
    both descendants of the St Johns of Stanton St John in Oxfordshire. A distant cousin of the 4th Baron who was created Earl of Bolingbroke in 1624, Oliver...
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