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unusual facts about Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough



António Luís de Sousa, 2nd Marquis of Minas

The aim was to conquer Badajoz, thus opening a second front to support Peterborough in Catalonia.

Baron Mordaunt

On the death of the 5th Earl of Peterborough in 1814, the title passed to his elder half-sister, Mary.

On his death in 1697, the earldom was inherited by the his nephew, Charles and the barony was inherited by his only child, Mary, the estranged wife of the 7th Duke of Norfolk.

Carey Fraser

In 1678 she married Charles Mordaunt, 2nd Viscount Mordaunt (1658–1735), later 3rd Earl of Peterborough, and created Earl of Monmouth (in 1689).

Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough

he secretly married Anastasia Robinson (ca. 1695–1755), a famous dramatic singer (from 1714) of great beauty and sweetness of disposition, daughter of Thomas Robinson (died 1722), a portrait painter; but she was at first unrecognized as his wife, and lived apart from him (regarded merely as his mistress) with her two sisters at Parson's Green.

In 1678 Charles married Carey Fraser, daughter of Sir Alexander Fraser and his wife, Mary Carey (a second cousin of Mordaunt's mother, Elizabeth Carey — making Carey Fraser a third cousin to him).

Hyacinth Richard Nugent, 2nd Baron Nugent of Riverston

However, he must have been rehabilitated, as he served as a Cornet Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough's Dragoons while in Spain.

Richard Kingston

In 1707, his attack on Dr. John Freind's vindication of the Earl of Peterborough's conduct in Spain appeared; he was arrested by order of the House of Lords.


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