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    Earl of Northampton is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created five times. Waltheof (d. 1076) Maud, Queen of Scotland (c.1074–1130/31)...
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    Compton, sixth son of the second Earl of Northampton, was Bishop of London. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, Prime Minister of Great Britain from...
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    Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton KG (25 February 1540 – 15 June 1614) was an English aristocrat and courtier. He was suspected throughout his life of being Roman...
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    Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, KG (c. 1312 – 16 September 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander. He was the fifth son of Humphrey de...
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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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    of Huntingdon (c.1074–1130/31) m. Simon I de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton (died c.1111) m. David I of Scotland (c. 1084–1153) Henry, Earl of...
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    Charles Compton, 9th Earl of Northampton, was made Baron Wilmington, Earl Compton and Marquess of Northampton. The American settlements of Wilmington, Massachusetts...
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    and military events. Northampton Castle is thought to have been built by Simon de Senlis, who became the first Earl of Northampton, circa 1084. It was...
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  • Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (Middle English: Wallef, Old Norse: Valþjóf) (died 31 May 1076) was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English...
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    Earl of Northampton (May 1601 – 19 March 1643), styled Lord Compton from 1618 to 1630, was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons...
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    party, consisting of Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton; Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk; his son-in-law William Knollys, 1st Earl of Banbury; Charles...
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    2nd Earl of Hereford in 1239, whose father Henry had married Maud, sister of the sixth earl. All three of the Earldoms of Hereford, Northampton and of Essex...
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  • Earl of March, first son of Philippa Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, first son of Roger, died without issue Anne de Mortimer, first daughter of Roger...
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    Leyburne. Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, who died unmarried. Jane Howard, who married Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland. Katherine Howard...
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    the house, created Lord Compton Earl of Northampton. The ceiling of the royal bedroom is decorated with the monograms of all the monarchs who have slept...
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  • 1st Earl of Northampton and 2nd Earl of Huntingdon jure uxoris (died between 1111 and 1113; most likely 1111 as this is when his castle at Northampton passed...
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  • of Althorp in the County of Northampton, and Baron Spencer of Althorp, of Althorp in the County of Northampton, on 3 April 1761. The future 6th Earl Spencer...
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    James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton FRS (19 August 1622 – 15 December 1681), was an English peer, politician and author, who fought for the Royalists...
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    matters of politics, a circumstance which would later bring him to grief. By 1605, Cecil, now Earl of Salisbury, Suffolk, the Earl of Northampton, and the...
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    sons and three daughters: Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk; Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton; Katherine Howard, who married Henry Berkeley, 7th...
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    Earl of Northampton, KG (died 24 June 1630), known as 2nd Baron Compton from 1589 to 1618, was an English nobleman, peer, and politician. Northampton...
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    third son of James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, who fought for the royalists during the English Civil War and his wife Mary Noel, daughter of Baptist...
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  • may refer to: Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton (1601–1643), British politician Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (1673–1743), British statesman...
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  • Countess of Hereford, Countess of Essex and Countess of Northampton (1347 – 7 April 1419) was the wife of the 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex and...
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    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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    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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    (consisting of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk; Suffolk's son-in-law William Knollys, Lord Knollys; Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham;...
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  • 1st Marquess of Northampton (24 March 1760 – 24 May 1828), known as Lord Compton from 1763 to 1796 and as the 9th Earl of Northampton from 1796 to 1812...
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    of Albemarle was split off to form Bertie County. Northampton County was formed from part of Bertie in 1741. It was named for James Compton, 5th Earl...
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    probably founded around 1100 by Simon de Senlis, Earl of Northampton. In 1113, possession passed to Prince David of Scotland when he married Simon's widow. The...
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