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    with the title Earl of Marlborough, persistent charges of Jacobitism led to his fall from office and temporary imprisonment in the Tower of London. William...
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    Duke of Marlborough (pronounced /ˈmɔːrlbrə/) is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Queen Anne in 1702 for John Churchill, 1st Earl of Marlborough...
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    Earl of Marlborough is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of England. The first time was in 1626 in favour of James Ley, 1st...
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    including the dukedom of Marlborough, the earldoms of Sunderland and Spencer, and the Churchill barony. Two prominent members of the family during the...
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  • Thumbnail for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
    Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government partly owing to his wife. While the Duke of Marlborough was fighting the War of the Spanish...
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    Robert Spencer, 4th Earl of Sunderland (1701–1729) Charles Spencer, 5th Earl of Sunderland (1706–1758) (succeeded as Duke of Marlborough in 1733) For further...
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  • Thumbnail for John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
    11th Duke of Marlborough, JP, DL (13 April 1926 – 16 October 2014) was a British peer. He was the elder son of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and his wife...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
    Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (22 November 1706 – 20 October 1758), styled as The Honourable Charles Spencer between 1706 and 1729 and as the Earl of Sunderland...
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  • Duke of Marlborough. Previously, he had been created Viscount Spencer, of Althorp in the County of Northampton, and Baron Spencer of Althorp, of Althorp...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough
    Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, KG, TD, PC (13 November 1871 – 30 June 1934), styled Earl of Sunderland until 1883 and Marquess of Blandford between...
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  • Thumbnail for John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough
    Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough, KG, PC (2 June 1822 – 4 July 1883), styled Earl of Sunderland from 1822 to 1840 and Marquess of Blandford from 1840...
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  • up Marlborough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marlborough or The Marlborough may refer to: Marlborough, Queensland Principality of Marlborough, a...
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  • Thumbnail for James Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough
    Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough (born 24 November 1955), styled Earl of Sunderland until March 1972 and Marquess of Blandford until October 2014...
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  • Thumbnail for Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough
    a Scottish Lord of Parliament in 1682. She became Lady Henrietta Churchill in 1689, when her father was created Earl of Marlborough. Upon her marriage...
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  • Thumbnail for Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin
    supplanted by that of Abigail Masham and Robert Harley (later Earl of Oxford), and with the fortunes of the Marlboroughs, those of Godolphin were indissolubly...
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    Blount, 1st Earl of Newport, who was also Master-General of the Ordnance. Monck was one of the few to emerge with any credit from the Battle of Newburn in...
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  • Thumbnail for Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
    1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC (1 June 1563 – 24 May 1612) was an English statesman noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns...
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    As part of William III's coronation honours, Churchill was created Earl of Marlborough, sworn to the Privy Council, and made a Gentleman of the King's...
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    James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough (c. 1552–1629) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and...
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    John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, during the King's absence in Ireland. It was likewise conferred on Meinhardt Schomberg, Duke of Schomberg the following...
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  • Thumbnail for George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough
    Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough (né Spencer; 27 December 1793 – 1 July 1857), styled Earl of Sunderland until 1817 and Marquess of Blandford between...
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  • Thumbnail for Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
    Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG PC FRS (5 December 1661 – 21 May 1724) was an English statesman and peer of the late Stuart and...
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  • Thumbnail for Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury
    He was the only son of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife, formerly Anna Maria Brudenell, a daughter of the 2nd Earl of Cardigan. His mother...
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  • Earl of Middlesex (29 September 1621 – 25 April 1624) James Ley, 1st Earl of Marlborough (11 December 1624 – 15 July 1628) Richard Weston, 1st Earl of...
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  • Thumbnail for Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex
    and when a rumour reached him that the news of the earl's death was known at Marlborough on the very day of, if not before, the occurrence, he posted off...
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    Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS (16 April 1661 – 19 May 1715) was an English statesman and poet. He was the grandson of the 1st Earl of Manchester...
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  • Thumbnail for James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
    Following the death in 1670, without a male heir, of Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland, the earl's estates reverted to the Crown. King Charles II...
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    Earl of Marlborough by turns. But, though he was now in high reputation by his late conduct, the States obliged him to yield this point to the Earl of...
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  • Countess of Dudley and became Duchess of Marlborough upon her fourth marriage, to John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of Marlborough. She was the sister of novelist...
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  • Thumbnail for Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg
    (Duke of Schomberg, Duke of Leinster, Marquess of Harwich, Earl of Brentford, Earl of Bangor, Baron Teyes and Count of Mértola) except Count of Mértola...
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