Biography of Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath 1661-1701

Paternal Family Tree: Grenville

Maternal Family Tree: Jane Wyche

In October 1652 [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath (age 24) and [his mother] Jane Wyche were married.

On 31st August 1661 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath was born to [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath (age 33) and [his mother] Jane Wyche.

On 22nd May 1678 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath (age 16) and Martha Osborne (age 14) were married. She the daughter of Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds (age 46) and Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds (age 49). He the son of John Granville 1st Earl Bath (age 49) and Jane Wyche.

On 19th September 1678 Charles "Don Carlo" Fitzcharles 1st Earl Plymouth (age 21) and [his sister-in-law] Bridget Osborne Countess Plymouth were married in Wimbledon, Surrey. She by marriage Countess Plymouth. She the daughter of [his father-in-law] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds (age 46) and [his mother-in-law] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds (age 49). He the illegitmate son of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 48) and Catherine Pegge (age 43).

On 25th April 1682 [his brother-in-law] Peregrine Osborne 2nd Duke Leeds (age 23) and Bridget Hyde Duchess Leeds (age 20) were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] Thomas Osborne 1st Duke Leeds (age 50) and [his mother-in-law] Bridget Bertie Duchess Leeds (age 53).

John Evelyn's Diary. 18th December 1684. I went with Lord Cornwallis (age 28) to see the young gallants do their exercise, Mr. Faubert having newly rail'd in a manage, and fitted it for the academy. There were the Dukes of Norfolk (age 29) and Northumberland (age 18), Lord Newburgh, and a nephew of (Duras) Earle of Feversham (age 43). The exercises were, 1. running at the ring; 2. flinging a javelin at a Moor's head; 3. discharging a pistol at a mark; lastly, taking up a gauntlet with the point of a sword; all these perform'd in full speede. The D. of Northumberland hardly miss'd of succeeding in every one, a dozen times, as I think. The D. of Norfolk did exceeding bravely. Lords Newburgh and Duras seem'd nothing so dextrous. Here I saw the difference of what ye French call "belle homme a cheval", and "bon homme a cheval;" the Duke of Norfolk being the first, that is, rather a fine person on a horse, the Duke of Northumberland being both in perfection, namely, a graceful person and excellent rider. But the Duke of Norfolk told me he had not ben at this exercise these 12 yeares before. There were in the field ye Prince of Denmark (age 31), and the Lord Landsdown (age 23), sonn of ye [his father] Earle of Bath (age 56), who had ben made a Count of ye Empire last Summer for his service before Vienna.

In 1689 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath (age 27) by writ of acceleration 2nd Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford

On 11th September 1689 [his wife] Martha Osborne (age 25) died. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

Before 22nd April 1690 [his brother-in-law] George Carteret 1st Baron Carteret (age 22) and [his sister] Jane Granville Baroness Gower (age 35) were married. She by marriage Baroness Carteret of Hawnes. She the daughter of [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath (age 61) and [his mother] Jane Wyche.

On 10th March 1691 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath (age 29) and Isabella van Nassau (age 23) were married. He the son of John Granville 1st Earl Bath (age 62) and Jane Wyche.

On 30th January 1692 [his son] William Henry Granville 3rd Earl of Bath was born to Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath (age 30) and [his wife] Isabella van Nassau (age 24). His mother died in childbirth; she and her husband had been married less than a year. He didn't marry again.

Memoires of Jacques du Clercq

This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.

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John Evelyn's Diary. 18th June 1696. The famous trial between my [his father] Lord Bath (age 67) and Lord Montague (age 57) for an estate of £11,000 a year, left by the Duke of Albemarle, wherein on several trials had been spent £20,000 between them. The Earl of Bath (age 34) was cast on evident forgery.

On 22nd August 1701 [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath (age 72) died. His son Charles (age 39) succeeded 2nd Earl Bath; he shot himself a month later.

John Evelyn's Diary. 2nd September 1701. Died the [his father] Earl of Bath (deceased), whose contest with Lord Montague (age 40) about the Duke of Albemarle's estate, claiming under a will supposed to have been forged, is said to have been worth £10,000 to the lawyers. His eldest son shot himself a few days after his father's death; for what cause is not clear. He was a most hopeful young man, and had behaved so bravely against the Turks at the siege of Vienna, that the Emperor made him a Count of the Empire. It was falsely reported that Sir Edward Seymour (age 68) was dead, a great man; he had often been Speaker, Treasurer of the Navy, and in many other lucrative offices. He was of a hasty spirit, not at all sincere, but head of the party at any time prevailing in Parliament.

On 4th September 1701 Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath (age 40) shot himself; he was found dead in a chair in his bedroom, wounded in the head, with two pistols, one of which had been fired. His son William (age 9) succeeded 3rd Earl Bath, 3rd Baron Granville of Kilkhampton and Biddeford.

On 22nd September 1701 father and son, [his father] John Granville 1st Earl Bath (deceased) and Charles Granville 2nd Earl Bath (deceased) were buried at St James the Great Church, Kilkhampton [Map].