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unusual facts about George Byron, 6th Baron Byron



George Byron, 7th Baron Byron

During this man's lifetime, he became of representative of the great Sir John Chandos, K.G., and by Sign Manual, or Deed Pole assumed the additional surname of Chandos. Elizabeth was descended from a well documented long line of the Pole family, including Cardinal Pole, who at the time of Henry VIII, was the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lucy, Lady Houston

She remarried in 1901, to George Frederick William Byron, 9th Baron Byron.

Parisina Malatesta

Edward Gibbon told this story in his Miscellaneous Works, and George Byron wrote the poem Parisina in 1816.

Sintra

The earliest documents describe a built-up town in the 11th century by the Arab geographer Al-Bacr (who was later supported by the poets Luís de Camões and Lord Byron).

Thomas Noel, 2nd Viscount Wentworth

The union did not produce any children, although Wentworth had fathered an illegitimate son, Thomas (1774–1853), who became rector of Kirkby Mallory and performed the marriage ceremony of his cousin, Anne Isabella to Lord Byron in 1815.


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