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4 unusual facts about List of Knights and Ladies of the Garter


Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon

He was rewarded with a creation as a Knight of the Garter before the end of that day, alongside George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham, Thomas West, 9th Baron De La Warr and William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke.

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon

He was named a Knight of the Garter in 1570, alongside William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester.

Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby

Elizabeth I of England created Derby a Knight of the Garter in 1574.

Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford

In 1523, the Baron was created a Knight of the Garter by Henry VIII of England alongside diplomat Thomas Boleyn, later Earl of Wiltshire.


Edmund Brydges, 2nd Baron Chandos

He was a Knight of the Garter, Baron Chandos, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire and Vice-Admiral of Gloucestershire.


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