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- The FitzClarence family was an illegitimate branch of the House of Hanover. Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, who later became King William IV of the United Kingdom, had at least ten children with his mistress Dorothea Jordan, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence.
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The FitzClarence family was an illegitimate branch of the House of Hanover. Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, who later became King William IV of the United Kingdom, had at least ten children with his mistress Dorothea Jordan, all of whom took the surname FitzClarence.
- George Fitzclarence, 1st Earl of Munster
- Henry Fitzclarence
- Sophia Sidney, Baroness de L'isle and Dudley
- Lady Mary Fox
- Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence
- Lady Augusta Gordon
George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, the eldest child of William IV and Dorothea Jordan, was provided with an excellent education, although his written English was poor, a trait he shared with several of his royal uncles. He had little contact with his mother after his parents separated in 1811. George served as an army officer during the Penins...
Henry Edward FitzClarence was the second eldest illegitimate son of William IV by Dorothea Jordan. He was born in Petersham and died unmarried in India in 1817 at age 22 before his father's death.
Sophia FitzClarence was born on 4 March 1795 on Somerset Street in London, the eldest daughter of William, Duke of Clarence and Dorothea Jordan. On 13 August 1825, Sophia married Philip Sidney, 1st Baron De L'Isle and Dudley of Penshurst in Kent. Sidney was a relation of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The couple had four surviving children- (i) Ade...
Mary FitzClarence was born in Bushy House as the fourth child of Prince William, Duke of Clarence and Dorothea Jordan. She was "a fine looking, brown girl with a pleasant countenance and manners". She married Charles Richard Fox, the eldest but illegitimate son of Lord and Lady Holland on 19 June 1824 in St George's, Hanover Square, London. Her mot...
Adolphus FitzClarence was born at Bushy House. He attended a boarding school in Sunbury-on-Thames before being sent to sea at the age of eleven in 1813. He subsequently served as a midshipman aboard Newcastle based in North America and then later in the Mediterranean Sea. On receiving his commission as lieutenant in April 1821, he transferred to Eu...
Augusta FitzClarence was born at Bushy House, Teddington on 17 November 1803. William's new wife, Princess Adelaide, was gentle and loving to the FitzClarence children. In 1818, Augusta and her siblings were granted a pension of £500. In 1819, Baron Franz Ludwig von Bibra, a German with knowledge of the classics and English, was engaged as tutor to...
The FitzClarence family was an illegitimate branch of the House of Hanover descended from Prince William Henry, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews (later William IV) and his mistress Dorothea Jordan.
May 17, 2017 · The coat of arms of the FitzClarence family. In 1791 an actress by the name of “Mrs. Jordan” became acquainted with William, Duke of Clarence, third son of King George III. She was 30-years-old and the mother of four illegitimate children via two different men.
Family. On 19 May 1821, he married Lady Augusta Boyle (d. 28 July 1876), the eldest daughter of the 4th Earl of Glasgow. They had two children: Augusta Georgiana Frederica FitzClarence (December 1823 – 18 September 1855) William FitzClarence (b. & d. 1827) Ancestry. References.
Jun 28, 2017 · Between 1791 and 1811 he lived with his mistress, the actress Mrs Jordan, and the growing family of their children known as the Fitzclarences. William married Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen in 1818, but their children died in infancy.
In fiction it was the country home of Soames Forsyte; in reality it boasts a much-painted mill and, above all, the fine Elizabethan manor house of the Blount Family, once frequented by Alexander Pope and now lovingly restored.
