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unusual facts about Viscountess



Burlats

Dame Adelaide de Toulouse was the daughter of Raymond V, count of Toulouse, viscountess of Albi, who married Roger II Trencavel in 1171.

Charles Armstrong

Charles Armstrong-Jones (born 1999), son of Viscount and Viscountess Linley and great-grandson of King George VI of the United Kingdom

Constance of Béarn

Constance (died 1310) was suo jure Viscountess of Marsan as well as titular Countess of Bigorre, daughter of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn and his first wife Martha of Marsan.

Domitila de Castro, Marchioness of Santos

Domitila (or Domitília) de Castro do Canto e Melo (São Paulo, December 27, 1797 — São Paulo, November 3, 1867), 1st Viscountess with designation as a Grandee, then 1st Marchioness of Santos, was a Brazilian noblewoman and the long-term mistress and favorite of Emperor Dom Pedro I.

Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy

Evelyn Byng, Viscountess Byng of Vimy (January 11, 1870 – June 20, 1949), also known as Lady Byng, was the wife of Lord Byng, the twelfth Governor General of Canada.

Francisco Antonio Zea

Out of this marriage was born only one daughter, Felipa Antonia Zea Meilhon, who would later become Viscountess of Rigny after marrying Alexander Gaulthier, Viscount of Rigny, son of Henri, Count of Rigny.

Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 3rd Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

; Viscountess Ednam, the wife of Viscount Ednam (heir to the Earl of Dudley) and a daughter of Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland; and Mrs Loeffler, a well-known society hostess, along with the pilot, Lt. Col. George Lochart Henderson and the assistant pilot, Mr C. D. Shearing.

Guignen

It was passed through to the Princes of Condé, members of the House of Bourbon by a marriage between Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince of Condé to Charlotte de Rohan who was created Viscountess in 1745.

Ince Castle

In 1960 the house was bought by Patricia, Viscountess Boyd, (daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh), wife of the former Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton.

John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven

The Viscountess Stonehaven succeeded her elder brother as eleventh Countess of Kintore in 1966.

John Gaule

Gaule's one preferment was as vicar of Great Staughton, Huntingdonshire, through Viscountess Campden by 1632, though there is some confusion on the point.

Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning

In 1797 the great-great-grandson of Viscountess Bayning, Charles Townshend, was created Baron Bayning.

Payzac, Dordogne

: Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, countess of Périgord, viscountess of Limoges, lady of Paysac

Theobald Butler, 1st Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim

The Viscountess Butler of Tulleophelim married as her second husband Richard Preston, 1st Earl of Desmond.

Thomas Coke, Viscount Coke

Viscountess Coke, through her mother, is a first cousin of the interior designer Cath Kidston.

William IX, Duke of Aquitaine

William was excommunicated a second time for "abducting" the Viscountess Dangerose (Dangerosa), the wife of his vassal Aimery I de Rochefoucauld, Viscount of Châtellerault.


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