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On this Day in History ... 16th July

16 Jul is in July.

1377 Coronation of Richard II

1465 Battle of Montlhéry

1528 Sweating Sickness Outbreak

1551 Sweating Sickness Outbreak

1557 Death of Anne of Cleves

1643 Battle of Gainsborough

1661 Creation of Baronets and Peerages by Charles II Post Coronation

1665 Great Plague of London

See Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Events on the 16th July

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 765. This year Eanbert was invested archbishop, on the fortieth day over mid-winter; and Frithwald, Bishop of Whitern, died on the nones of May. He was consecrated at York, on the eighteenth day before the calends of September, in the sixth year of the reign of Ceolwulf, and was bishop nine and twenty winters. Then was Petwin consecrated Bishop of Whitern at Adlingfleet, on the sixteenth day before the calends of August.

On 16 Jul 1216 Pope Innocent III (age 56) died.

Calendar Inquitisitions Port Mortem Volume 8 Edward III 185. 185. Giles De Badelesmere (deceased), Knight.

Writ to Henry Darcy, mayor of the city of London, and king’s escheator there, 16 July [1338], 12 Edward III.

London.

Inq. Friday before St. Bartholomew, 12 Edward III.

Alegate. A tenement, 17 shops, and a garden adjacent, within Alegate, worth when let 9l.; out of which there are paid yearly to the lords of that fee for quit rent, 56s. 4d., and for repairs, 40s.

Lymstret lane. A tenement and a garden, worth 40s., out of which are paid yearly for repair of houses and walls and for enclosing of the said tenement and garden, 20s.

All held of the king in chief, as the whole of the city of London is.

Margery (age 30) the wife of Sir William de Ros (age 53), Maud (age 30) the wife of the earl of Oxford (age 26), Elizabeth (age 25) the wife of the earl of Northampton (age 28), and Margery (age 23) (sic) the wife of Sir John Tipetoft (age 24), are his sisters and co-heirs, and of full age.

John Tiptoft 2nd Baron Tibetot.

Continues.

On 16 Jul 1342 Charles I King Hungary (age 54) died. His son Louis I King Hungary King Poland (age 16) succeeded I King Hungary. Margaret Bohemia Queen Consort Hungary (age 7) by marriage Queen Consort Hungary.

On 16 Jul 1377 King Richard II of England (age 10) was crowned II King of England at Westminster Abbey [Map] by Archbishop Simon Sudbury (age 61).

Richard Fitzalan 9th Earl of Surrey 11th Earl of Arundel (age 31) carried the Crown.

Guichard d'Angle 1st Earl Huntingdon was created 1st Earl Huntingdon for life.

John Mowbray 1st Earl Nottingham (age 11) was created 1st Earl Nottingham.

Edward 2nd Duke of York 1st Duke Albemarle (age 4) and Robert Harrington 3rd Baron Harington (age 21) were knighted.

Roger Scales 4th Baron Scales (age 23) attended.

On 16 Jul 1465 Pierre de Brézé (age 55) was killed at the Battle of Montlhéry.

On 16 Jul 1518 Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal (age 49) and Eleanor of Austria Queen Consort France Queen Consort Portugal (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Portugal. The difference in their ages was 29 years. She the daughter of Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile and Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile (age 39). They were first cousin twice removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Letters and Papers 1528. 16 Jul 1528. R.O. 4522. The Abbot Of Furness to Wolsey.

Received on the 14th his letter dated 2 July, blaming his negligence in delaying to answer Wolsey's first letters; requiring also a grant of the stewardship of their monastery, duly sealed, to be sent by the bearer. According to his promise, was coming to Wolsey by the space of forty miles and more, when he heard of the plague and the adjournment of the term. Since his return, he and the monastery have made a grant of the stewardship to the earl of Derby; but as a former grant was delivered to the late Earl by the pretensed abbot, John Dalton, they desire to have it returned, and will deliver the Earl a substantial one in the place of it. Furness, 16 July. Signed.

P.1. Add. Endd.

Letters and Papers 1529. 16 Jul 1529. 5778. The Divorce. i. Deposition of Mary (age 31) wife of Henry Bourchier Earl of Essex, taken at Stanstede, on Thursday, 15 July 1529, in the presence of Robert Johnson, notary public (of Norwich diocese). Her age is 44 years and over. She says that prince Arthur and Catharine (age 43) lived as man and wife together; that the two occupied the same bed after the wedding, at London House, and were generally reputed as man and wife.

ii. Deposition of Agnes (age 52) widow of Thomas late Duke of Norfolk, taken on Friday, 16 July 1529, in the church of St. Mary [Map], of the Cluniac priory of Thetford, by Sampson Mychell, canon, in the presence of John [Fletcher] and [William] Molyneux, M.A., her chaplain. Her age is 52 years and over. She knew Henry VII. and his Queen Elizabeth from the time she was 15, and remembers Catharine coming from Spain, and the marriage of Arthur and Catharine in St. Paul's. "He was then about the stature that the young [earl of] Derby is now at, but not fully so high as the same Earl is." Also, that the said Prince Arthur and [princess Ka]theryne, now being Queen, were brought to bed the next night after the said marriage; for this deponent did see them lie... me in one bed the same night, in a chamber within the said palace being prepared for them, and that this deponent left them so [lying to]gether there the said night.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 Jul 1551. The xvj day of July ded of the swet the ij yonge dukes of Suffoke [Note. Henry Brandon 2nd Duke of Suffolk (deceased) and Charles Brandon 3rd Duke of Suffolk (deceased)] of the swet, boyth in one bed in Chambryge-shyre [Map]; and [buried] at (blank in MS.); and ther ded from the viij day of July unto the xix ded of the swett in London of all dyssesus, viijc. iijxx. and xij. and no more in alle, and so the chanseller is serteffyd.

Note. Death of the two young dukes of Suffolk. Henry and Charles Brandon, the only sons of Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk. Their mother was his second wife, Katharine (age 32), daughter and sole heir of William lord Willoughby de Eresby. (See some excellent letters of hers in Miss Wood's collection, vol. iii.) The report which reached our diarist is incorrect in two respects: the noble youths did not die "in one bed" nor "in Cambridgeshire." Their deaths took place at the bishop of Lincoln's palace [Map] at Bugden, in the county of Huntingdon. A narrative, entitled "Epistola de vita et obitu duorum fratrum Suffolciensium, Henrici et Caroli Brandon," written by sir Thomas Wilson, was shortly after printed. Two interesting extracts from this rare volume will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for Sept. 1825, vol. xcv. ii. 206. The young men, accompanied by their mother, had just arrived at Bugden, when the duke was suddenly taken ill of the fatal sweat, which in five hours deprived him of life. The younger brother Charles, though placed in a distant chamber, immediately learned what had happened, and being asked by the physician upon what he was meditating, replied, "I am thinking how hard it is to be deprived of one's dearest friend." "Why do you say so?" said he. He answered, "How can you ask me? My brother is dead. However, it is of little matter, I shall soon follow him." And so he did, in half an hour. Sir Thomas Wilson admits the title of duke to the younger brother immediately on the elder's demise, and so we find from our Diary "the ij. dukes" were so called in London. The other extract given in the Gentleman's Magazine is a very high character (in Latin) of the young duke Henry, written by Dr. Walter Haddon, regius professor of civil law in the university of Cambridge: of this Strype (Memorials, Book ii. c. 4,) has given the substance in a translated form. Sir Thomas Wilson, in his Arte of Rhetorique, has also an interesting passage describing the characters of these young noblemen; and some Latin verses on their death, "Carmina in Mortem," &c. were written by Michael Reniger, and printed in 1552, 4to. The circumstance that their mother the duchess was the great patroness of the reforming divines accounts for the extraordinary interest excited by their death. An engraving in Chamberlain's Holbein Heads is taken from two miniatures, supposed to represent these brothers: but if the dates given in the inscriptions are compared, they will be found both to belong to the elder boy.

Note. Mortality from the sweating sickness. Two other reports of this have come down to us, and, though the figures do not exactly correspond, yet they seem all to have been derived from official returns, and there is also some difference in the periods of time. "Letters from London reporte there died in London of the sweatynge sicknes from the 7. of July till the 20. of the same 938 persons, but howe many have died since to this daye, beinge the 23., I knowe not. I truste it is nowe cleane gone." (MS. Harl. 353, f. 107.) Shortly after the disease had terminated, the celebrated Dr. Caius wrote a treatise upon it, which was printed in the following year, under the title of "A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate, or sweatyng sicknesse. Made by John Caius, doctour in physicke. 1552." Printed by Richard Grafton in black letter, 40 leaves, 12mo. The Dedication to the earl of Pembroke is dated 1st April, 1552. (Caius also wrote a Latin treatise on the same subject, of which a late edition, entitled "Johannis Caii de Ephemera Britannica liber unus," was printed in London, 8vo. 1721.) From this curious volume we learn that the disease first appeared with the army of Henry the Seventh, which arrived at Milford, out of France, the 7 Aug. 1485; next in 1506; again in 1517; a fourth time in 1528; and a fifth in 1551, shortly before the composition of his treatise. On this occasion, "Beginning at Shrewesbury in the middest of April, proceadinge with greate mortalitie to Ludlowe, Prestene, and other places in Wales, then to Westchestre, Coventre, Oxenfoorde, and other tounes in the Southe, and suche as were in and aboute the way to London, whether it came notablie the seventh of July, and there continuing sore, with the loss of vijC.lxi. from the ix. day until the xvi. daye, besides those that died in the vii. and viii. dayes, of whom no registre was kept, from that it abated until the xxx. day of the same, with the loss of C.xlii. more. Then ceasing there, it wente from thence throughe al the east partes of England into the northe, untill the ende of Auguste, at which tyme it diminished, and in the ende of Septembre fully ceassed." The following singular passage relating to this disease occurs in a report of the preaching of Thomas Hancocke, minister of Poole in Dorsetshire. "—in his doctrine he taught them that God had plagued this Realme most justly for their sins with three notable plagues. The first plague was a warning to England, which was the Posting Sweat, that posted from town to town thorow England, and was named Stop-Gallant: for it spared none. For there were some dauncing in the Court at nine a'clock that were dead at eleven. In the same sweat also at Cambridge dyed two worthy imps, the duke of Suffolk his sons, Charles and his brother." (Strype, Memor. iii. chap. vii.) The singular name here noticed occurs also in the register of Uffculme, Devonshire, where the disease prevailed in the month following its devastation in London. "Out of 38 burials entered in that year, 27 were in the first 11 days of August, and 16 of them in three days. The disease of which these persons died is called, in the parish-register, the hote sickness or stup-gallant." Magna Britannia, by Lysons, who adds that he had not been able to find the term elsewhere.

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 16 Jul 1553. The xvj th daye of July the lorde highe treasurer (age 70)c was going to his howse in London at night, and about vij. of the clocke the gates of the Tower [Map] upon a sudden was shut, and the keyes caryed upp to the quene Jane (age 17); but what the cause was I knowe not. The noyes in the Tower was that ther was a seale lackinge; but many men thought they surmysed that but the truthe was she feared some packinge in the lorde treasurer, and so they dyd fetch him at xij. of the clocke in the night from his house in London into the Tower.

Note c. The marquess of Winchester.

On 16 Jul 1557 Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England (age 41) died at Chelsea Manor [Map]. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map] on 03 Aug 1557. She was the last of Henry VIII's six wives to die having outlived him by ten years. Hever Castle, Kent [Map] appears to have been appropriated by Edward Waldegrave (age 40), one of the Commissioners for the sale of Crown land, who assigned himself the Castle and estate of Hever.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 Jul 1557. [The xvi day of July died the lady Anna of Cleves (age 41), at Chelsea, sometime wife and queen to king Henry the] viijth, but she was never crounyd, butt [remained in England,] and she was seyryd [cered ie inclosed in waxed cloths.] the nyght folohyng.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 16 Jul 1561. The xvj day of July was cristened Robard Dethyke the sune of ser Gylbartt Dethyke (age 51), Garter, in the parryche of sant Gylles withowt Crepull-gatte [Map], and the chyrche hangyd with clothes of arrys and the cloth of state, and strode with gren rysses and strode with orbese [herbs], and ser Wylliam Huett (age 65) depute for my lord of Shrowsbere (age 33) and master Care [Carey] [Note. Possibly George Carey 2nd Baron Hunsdon (age 14)] depute for my lord Honsdon (age 35), and my lade Sakefeld [Note. Possibly Cicely Baker Countess Dorset (age 26)] the quen('s) depute; and after wafurs and epocrasse grett plente, and myche pepull ther, and my lade Yorke bare my lade depute's trayne; and so hom to here plase, and had a bankett. a bankett .... [master Alexander Avenon was] chosen the shreyff for the quen('s) grace.

Note. P. 264. Christening of Robert Dethiek. It was no unfrequent honour paid by queen Elizabeth to her subjects to stand godmother to their children. In a list of her presents of plate there are nine instances between the 21st April and the 24th Nov. 1561, and among them, "Item, given by her Majestie the 15th of July, to the chrystenyng of sir William Dethyk, alias Garter king at armes, his childe, oone guilte cup with a cover, per oz. 19¼ dim. oz. Bought of the Goldsmyth." Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, edit. 1823, vol. i. p. 129.

On 16 Jul 1611 Cecilia Renata Habsburg Spain was born to Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor (age 33) and Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress (age 36). Coefficient of inbreeding 11.68%.

Diary of Anne Clifford 1617. 16 Jul 1617. The 16th Lady Wootton came here on horseback, she and my Lord (age 28) having lain that night at Sir Percival Hart’s, and so hunted a deer as far as Otford; she stay’d not above an hour in regard she saw I was so resolutely bent not to part with Westmoreland.

Note 1. At Lullingstone Castle.

Note 2. About this time Lord Keeper and all his Company left Dorset House. [Q: House.]

On 16 Jul 1645 William Morgan (age 85) was visited by King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 15) who stayed ovenight.

In Jul 1661 King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland (age 31) created new Baronetcies and Peerages ...

10 Jul 1661 Christopher Guise 1st Baronet (age 44) was created 1st Baronet Guise of Elmore in Gloucestershire.

16 Jul 1661 Philip Parker 1st Baronet (age 43) was created 1st Baronet Parker of Arwarton in Suffolk. Rebecca Long Lady Parker by marriage Lady Parker of Arwarton in Suffolk.

21 Jul 1661 Charles Hussey 1st Baronet (age 35) was created 1st Baronet Hussey of Caythorpe in Lincolnshire.

21 Jul 1661 Edward Barkham 1st Baronet (age 31) was created 1st Baronet Barkham Waynflete.

25 Jul 1661 John Banks 1st Baronet (age 34) was created 1st Baronet Banks of London by King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16 Jul 1662. This day I was told that my Baroness Castlemaine's (age 21) (being quite fallen out with her husband (age 28)) did yesterday go away from him, with all her plate, jewels, and other best things; and is gone to Richmond to a brother (age 42) of her's1; which, I am apt to think, was a design to get out of town, that the King (age 32) might come at her the better. But strange it is how for her beauty I am willing to construe all this to the best and to pity her wherein it is to her hurt, though I know well enough she is a whore.

Note 1. Note this is a mistake for her uncle Edward Villiers.

John Evelyn's Diary. 16 Jul 1663. Sir George Carteret (age 53), Treasurer of the Navy, had now married his daughter, Caroline, to Sir Thomas Scott (age 25), of Scott's Hall, in Kent. This gentleman was thought to be the son of Prince Rupert (age 43).

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16 Jul 1664. Thence with Creed by coach to my Lord Sandwich's (age 38), and there I got Mr. Moore to give me my Lord's hand for my receipt of £109 more of my money of Sir G. Carteret (age 54), so that then his debt to me will be under £500, I think. This do ease my mind also.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16 Jul 1664. Thence walked a while with Mr. Coventry (age 36) in the gallery, and first find that he is mighty cold in his present opinion of Mr. Peter Pett (age 53) for his flagging and doing things so lazily there, and he did also surprise me with a question why Deane (age 30) did not bring in their report of the timber of Clarendon. What he means thereby I know not, but at present put him off; nor do I know how to steer myself: but I must think of it, and advise with my Lord Sandwich (age 38).

John Evelyn's Diary. 16 Jul 1665. There died of the plague in London this week 1,100; and in the week following, above 2,000. Two houses were shut up in our parish.

Samuel Pepys' Diary. 16 Jul 1668. Thence to Cooper's (age 59), and saw his advance on my wife's picture, which will be indeed very fine. So with her to the 'Change [Map], to buy some things, and here I first bought of the sempstress next my bookseller's, where the pretty young girl is, that will be a great beauty.

John Evelyn's Diary. 15 Jul 1669. Having two days before had notice that the University intended me the honor of Doctorship, I was this morning attended by the beadles belonging to the Law, who conducted me to the Theater, where I found the Duke of Ormond (age 58) (now Chancellor of the University) with the Earl of Chesterfield (age 35) and Mr. Spencer (age 40) (brother to the late Earl of Sunderland). Thence, we marched to the Convocation House, a convocation having been called on purpose; here, being all of us robed in the porch, in scarlet with caps and hoods, we were led in by the Professor of Laws, and presented respectively by name, with a short eulogy, to the Vice-Chancellor, who sat in the chair, with all the Doctors and Heads of Houses and masters about the room, which was exceedingly full. Then, began the Public Orator his speech, directed chiefly to the Duke of Ormond, the Chancellor; but in which I had my compliment, in course. This ended, we were called up, and created Doctors according to the form, and seated by the Vice-Chancellor among the Doctors, on his right hand; then, the Vice-Chancellor made a short speech, and so, saluting our brother Doctors, the pageantry concluded, and the convocation was dissolved. So formal a creation of honorary Doctors had seldom been seen, that a convocation should be called on purpose, and speeches made by the Orator; but they could do no less, their Chancellor being to receive, or rather do them, this honor. I should have been made Doctor with the rest at the public Act, but their expectation of their Chancellor made them defer it. I was then led with my brother Doctors to an extraordinary entertainment at Doctor Mewes's, head of St John's College, Oxford University, and, after abundance of feasting and compliments, having visited the Vice-Chancellor and other Doctors, and given them thanks for the honor done me, I went toward home the 16th, and got as far as Windsor, Berkshire [Map], and so to my house the next day.

On 16 Jul 1672 Barbara Fitzroy was born illegitimately to John Churchill (age 22) and Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland (age 31) at Merton College, Oxford University. She claimed the child was the King's (age 42) but most consider her father to be John Churchill, subsequently Duke of Marlborough.

On 16 Jul 1719 Philip Gell 3rd Baronet (age 68) died without issue. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Wirksworth [Map]. Monument to Philip Gell 3rd Baronet. Baronet Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire extinct. His esates were inherited by his nephew John Gell son of William Eyre and Philip's sister Katherine Gell who adopted the name Gell.

On 16 Jul 1740 Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain (age 72) died.

Greville Memoirs. 16 Jul 1830. t the late King's funeral he behaved with great indecency. That ceremony was very well managed, and a fine sight, the military part particularly, and the Guards were magnificent. The attendance was not very numerous, and when they had all got together in St. George's Hall a gayer company I never beheld; with the exception of Mount Charles (age 63), who was deeply affected, they were all as merry as grigs. The King was chief mourner, and, to my astonishment, as he entered the chapel directly behind the body, in a situation in which he should have been apparently, if not really, absorbed in the melancholy duty he was performing, he darted up to Strathaven, who was ranged on one side below the Dean's stall, shook him heartily by the hand, and then went on nodding to the right and left. He had previously gone as chief mourner to sit for an hour at the head of the body as it lay in state, and he walked in procession with his household to the apartment. I saw him pass from behind the screen. Lord Jersey had been in the morning to Bushy to kiss hands on being made Chamberlain, when he had received him very graciously, told him it was the Duke and not himself who had made him, but that he was delighted to have him. At Windsor, when he arrived, he gave Jersey the white wand, or rather took one from him he had provided for himself, and gave it him again with a little speech. When he went to sit in state, Jersey preceded him, and he said when all was ready, 'Go on to the body, Jersey; you will get your dress coat as soon as you can.' The morning after the funeral, having slept at Frogmore, he went all over the Castle, into every room in the house, which he had never seen before except when he came there as a guest; after which he received an address from the ecclesiastical bodies of Windsor and Eton, and returned an answer quite unpremeditated which they told me was excellent.

Greville Memoirs. 16 Jul 1830. The King's good-nature, simplicity, and affability to all about him are certainly very striking, and in his elevation he does not forget any of his old friends and companions. He was in no hurry to take upon himself the dignity of King, nor to throw off the habits and manners of a country gentleman. When Lord Chesterfield went to Bushy to kiss his hand, and be presented to the Queen, he found Sir John and Lady Gore there lunching, and when they went away the King called for their carriage, handed Lady Gore into it, and stood at the door to see them off. When Lord Howe came over from Twickenham to see him, he said the Queen was going out driving, and should 'drop him' at his own house. The Queen, they say, is by no means delighted at her elevation. She likes quiet and retirement and Bushy (of which the King has made her Ranger), and does not want to be a Queen. However, 'L'appétit viendra en mangeant.' He says he does not want luxury and magnificence, has slept in a cot, and he has dismissed the King's cooks, 'renversé la marmite.' He keeps the stud (which is to be diminished) because he thinks he ought to support the turf. He has made Mount Charles (age 63) a Lord of the Bedchamber, and given the Robes to Sir C. Pole, an admiral. Altogether he seems a kind-hearted, well-meaning, not stupid, burlesque, bustling old fellow, and if he doesn't go mad may make a very decent King, but he exhibits oddities. He would not have his servants in mourning—that is, not those of his own family and household—but he sent the Duke of Sussex to Mrs. Fitzherbert to desire she would put hers in mourning, and consequently so they are. The King and she have always been friends, as she has, in fact, been with all the Royal Family, but it was very strange. Yesterday morning he sent for the officer on guard, and ordered him to take all the muffles off the drums, the scarfs off the regimentals, and so to appear on parade, where he went himself. The colonel would have put the officer under arrest for doing this without his orders, but the King said he was commanding officer of his own guard, and forbade him. All odd, and people are frightened, but his wits will at least last till the new Parliament meets. I sent him a very respectful request through Taylor that he would pay £300, all that remained due of the Duke of York's debts at Newmarket, which he assented to directly, as soon as the Privy Purse should be settled—very good-natured. In the meantime it is said that the bastards are dissatisfied that more is not done for them, but he cannot do much for them at once, and he must have time. He has done all he can; he has made Errol Master of the Horse, Sidney a Guelph and Equerry, George Fitzclarence the same and Adjutant-General, and doubtless they will all have their turn. Of course the stories told about the rapacity of the Conynghams have been innumerable. The King's will excited much astonishment, but as yet nothing is for certain known about the money, or what became of it, or what he gave away, and to whom, in his lifetime.

In 1852 Flora Elizabeth Campbell died in childbirth. Buried at St Andrew's Church, Wimpole [Map].

On 16 Jul 1861 Henry Eliot Yorke (age 23) died in India.

Flora Elizabeth Campbell: she was born to General Alexander Campbell. In 1833 Henry Reginald Yorke and she were married.

Henry Eliot Yorke: Around 1838 he was born to Henry Reginald Yorke and Flora Elizabeth Campbell. Before 16 Jul 1861 he was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Bombay Artillery.

Adeline Horsey Recollections. 16 Jul 1864. Those days were rather noted for elopements, and two of my friends, Baroness Rose Somerset (age 35) and Lady Adela Villiers, were among the numerous romantic girls who were married in haste and sometimes repented at leisure. Florence Paget's (age 21) elopement with the last Marquis of Hastings (age 21) on the eve of her marriage with Henry Chaplin (age 23) is too well known for me to repeat the story.

On 16 Jul 1895 George Mccorquodale (age 78) died.

George Mccorquodale: On 10 May 1817 he was born to Hugh McCorquodale and Lucia Hall. On 24 Dec 1844 George Mccorquodale and Louisa Kate Honan were married. After 1870 George Mccorquodale and Emily Sanderson were married. The difference in their ages was 20 years.

Births on the 16th July

On 16 Jul 1611 Cecilia Renata Habsburg Spain was born to Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor (age 33) and Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress (age 36). Coefficient of inbreeding 11.68%.

In 1638 Thomas Scott was born to Edward Scott and Catherine Goring although John Evelyn suggests in the entry for 16 Jul 1663 that he is the son of Prince Rupert Palatinate Simmern 1st Duke Cumberland (age 18).

On 16 Jul 1664 Philippe Charles Bourbon was born to Philip Bourbon I Duke Orléans (age 23) and Princess Henrietta Stewart Duchess Orléans (age 20). He a grandson of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland. Coefficient of inbreeding 7.50%.

On 16 Jul 1672 Barbara Fitzroy was born illegitimately to John Churchill (age 22) and Barbara Villiers 1st Duchess of Cleveland (age 31) at Merton College, Oxford University. She claimed the child was the King's (age 42) but most consider her father to be John Churchill, subsequently Duke of Marlborough.

On 16 Jul 1673 John Jeffreys 2nd Baron Jeffreys was born to George "Hanging Judge" Jeffreys 1st Baron Jeffreys (age 28) and Sarah Needham.

On 16 Jul 1678 Sophie Charlotte Hesse-Kassel Duchess Mecklenburg-Schwerin was born to Charles I Landgrave Hesse-Kassel (age 23) and Maria Amalia of Courland Landgravine Hesse-Kassel (age 25). Coefficient of inbreeding 6.66%.

On 16 Jul 1722 Joseph Wilton was born.

On 16 Jul 1723 Joshua Reynolds was born to Samuel Reynolds Schoolmaster in Plymton Plymouth, Devon.

On 16 Jul 1726 William Wheeler 6th Baronet was born to William Wheler 5th Baronet (age 22) and Penelope Glynne Lady Wheler. He was baptised at All Saints' Church, Leamington Hastings on 04 Aug 1726.

On 16 Jul 1761 George Barrington 5th Viscount Barrington was born to John Barrington (age 39).

On 16 Jul 1798 Baptist Wriothesley Noel was born to Gerard Edwardes aka Noel 2nd Baronet (age 38) and Diana Middleton 2nd Baroness Barham (age 35).

On 16 Jul 1810 George Pitt-Rivers 4th Baron Rivers was born to Horace Beckford aka Pitt-Rivers 3rd Baron Rivers (age 32) and Frances Rigby.

On 16 Jul 1830 Margaret Charlotte Paulett was born to John Paulett 5th Earl Paulett (age 47).

On 16 Jul 1832 Anna Caroline Stanhope was born to Leicester FitzGerald Charles Stanhope 5th Earl of Harrington (age 47) and Elizabeth Green Countess Harrington (age 23).

On 16 Jul 1837 Francis Knollys 1st Viscount Knollys was born to General William Thomas Knollys (age 39) and Elizabeth St Aubyn (age 22).

On 16 Jul 1919 Charles Spencer Richard Graham 6th Baronet was born to Fergus Frederick Graham 5th Baronet (age 26) and Mary Spencer Revell Reade (age 21).

On 16 Jul 1941 George Young 6th Baronet was born to George Peregrine Young 5th Baronet (age 32) and Elisabeth Knatchbull-Hugessen Lady Young (age 26).

On 16 Jul 1965 Rufus Keppel 10th Earl of Albemarle was born to Derek Keppel (age 53).

Marriages on the 16th July

Before 16 Jul 1334 William Zouche 2nd Baron Zouche Harringworth (age 12) and Elizabeth Ros Baroness Zouche Harringworth were married. They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Before 16 Jul 1350 Gilbert Umfraville 9th Earl Angus (age 40) and Joan Willoughby Countess Angus were married. She by marriage Countess Angus. He the son of Robert Umfraville 8th Earl Angus and Lucy Kyme. They were fourth cousins.

On 16 Jul 1409 Anthony Valois Duke Brabant (age 24) and Elisabeth of Görlitz Duchess Brabant (age 18) were married. She by marriage Duchess Brabant. He the son of Philip "Bold" Valois II Duke Burgundy and Margaret Dampierre Duchess Burgundy. They were second cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward I of England.

On 16 Jul 1518 Manuel "Fortunate" I King Portugal (age 49) and Eleanor of Austria Queen Consort France Queen Consort Portugal (age 19) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Portugal. The difference in their ages was 29 years. She the daughter of Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile and Joanna "The Mad" Trastámara Queen Castile (age 39). They were first cousin twice removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Before 16 Jul 1594 Frederick IV Elector Palatine (age 20) and Electress Louise Juliana of the Palatine Rhine (age 18) were married. She by marriage Electress Palatine Rhine. He the son of Louis VI Elector Palatine.

On 16 Jul 1608 César Bourbon Vendôme 1st Duke Vendôme (age 14) and Françoise Lorraine Duchess Vendôme (age 15) were married. She by marriage Duchess Vendôme. He the illegitmate son of Henry IV King France (age 54) and Gabrielle d'Estrées. They were half third cousin once removed.

On 16 Jul 1614 John Hotham 1st Baronet (age 25) and Anne Rokeby were married.

On or after 16 Jul 1615 William Playters 2nd Baronet (age 21) and Frances Le Grys (age 20) were married at St Margaret's Church, Sotterley.

On 16 Jul 1650 Martin Lumley 2nd Baronet (age 22) and Anne Langham (age 12) were married at St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate.

On 16 Jul 1683 Justinian Isham 4th Baronet (age 24) and Elizabeth Turnor Lady Isham (age 17) were married.

On 16 Jul 1695 Thomas Coventry 1st Earl Coventry (age 66) and Elizabeth Grimes Countess Coventry (age 25) were married. The difference in their ages was 41 years.

On 16 Jul 1757 George Venables-Vernon 2nd Baron Vernon (age 22) and Louisa Barbara Mansel (age 24) were married. No issue.

On 16 Jul 1789 Charles Watson 1st Baronet (age 38) and Juliana Moyle aka Copley (age 27) were married.

On 16 Jul 1828 Henry Francis Roper-Curzon 14th Baronet (age 61) and Sarah Brabazon Baroness Teynham were married. She by marriage Baroness Teynham of Teynham in Kent.

On 16 Jul 1829 Robert Throckmorton 8th Baronet (age 29) and Elizabeth Acton Lady Throckmorton (age 23) were married.

On 16 Jul 1839 Henry William Des Voeux 3rd Baronet (age 32) and Sophia Catherine Coventry Lady Gresley and Des Voeux were married. She the daughter of George Coventry 7th Earl Coventry and Margaret "Peggy" Pitches Countess Coventry (age 79).

On 16 Jul 1849 Thomas Henry Foley 4th Baron Foley (age 40) and Mary Charlotte Fitzalan Baroness Foley (age 27) were married. She by marriage Baroness Foley of Kidderminster in Worcestershire. She the daughter of Henry Charles Howard 13th Duke of Norfolk (age 57) and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower Duchess Norfolk (age 61). He a great x 4 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 16 Jul 1858 Granville Waldegrave 3rd Baron Radstock (age 25) and Susan Calcraft (age 25) were married at Holy Trinity Church Marylebone. He a great x 4 grandson of King James II of England Scotland and Ireland.

On 16 Jul 1864 Henry Weysford Charles Plantagenet Rawdon-Hastings 4th Marquess Hastings (age 21) and Florence Cecilia Paget Marchioness Hastings (age 21) were married. The marriage created a scandal as the bride had been engaged to Henry Chaplin (age 23) and had eloped with her husband the day before her planned wedding to Chaplin. Chaplin later got his revenge by outbidding Hastings for the horse Hermit which went on to win the 1867 Derby and against which Hastings had bet heavily. The loss led Hastings into heavy debt and drinking. He died some four years later in poverty. She the daughter of Henry Paget 2nd Marquess Anglesey (age 67) and Henrietta Bagot Marchioness Anglesey. He the son of George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings 2nd Marquess Hastings and Barbara Yelverton Marchioness Hastings.

On 16 Jul 1947 Antony Gibbs 3rd Baron Hunsdon 5th Baron Aldenham (age 25) and Mary Elizabeth Tyser Baroness Hunsdon and Aldenham were married.

Deaths on the 16th July

On 16 Jul 1216 Pope Innocent III (age 56) died.

On 16 Jul 1218 Bishop Sylvester died.

On 16 Jul 1325 Cecily Valoignes Baroness Ufford (age 41) died.

On 16 Jul 1342 Charles I King Hungary (age 54) died. His son Louis I King Hungary King Poland (age 16) succeeded I King Hungary. Margaret Bohemia Queen Consort Hungary (age 7) by marriage Queen Consort Hungary.

On 16 Jul 1369 Bishop John Grandison 3rd Baron Grandison (age 77) died. He was buried at Exeter Cathedral [Map]. His nephew Thomas Grandison 4th Baron Grandison (age 30) succeeded 4th Baron Grandison. Margaret Carew Baroness Grandison and Beauchamp by marriage Baroness Grandison.

On 16 Jul 1557 Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England (age 41) died at Chelsea Manor [Map]. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map] on 03 Aug 1557. She was the last of Henry VIII's six wives to die having outlived him by ten years. Hever Castle, Kent [Map] appears to have been appropriated by Edward Waldegrave (age 40), one of the Commissioners for the sale of Crown land, who assigned himself the Castle and estate of Hever.

Before 16 Jul 1614 Katherine Rodes died. The date based on the second marriage of her husband John Hotham 1st Baronet (age 25).

On 16 Jul 1631 Francis Hay 9th Earl Erroll (age 67) died. His son William Hay 10th Earl Erroll (age 34) succeeded 10th Earl Erroll.

On 16 Jul 1663 Wilhelm "The Just" VI Hesse-Kassel (age 34) died. His son William Hesse-Kassel (age 12) succeeded VII Landgrave Hesse Kassel.

On 16 Jul 1667 Seymour Shirley 5th Baronet (age 20) died. In Jan 1668 His son Robert Shirley 6th Baronet succeeded posthumously 6th Baronet Shirley of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire.

On or before 16 Jul 1711 Catherine Jardine Lady Weir died.

On 16 Jul 1719 Meinhart Schomberg 3rd Duke Schomberg (age 78) died. Duke Schomberg extinct.

On 16 Jul 1719 Philip Gell 3rd Baronet (age 68) died without issue. He was buried at St Mary's Church, Wirksworth [Map]. Monument to Philip Gell 3rd Baronet. Baronet Gell of Hopton in Derbyshire extinct. His esates were inherited by his nephew John Gell son of William Eyre and Philip's sister Katherine Gell who adopted the name Gell.

On 16 Jul 1740 Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain (age 72) died.

On 16 Jul 1770 Francis Cotes (age 44) died.

On 16 Jul 1785 Henry Tichborne 6th Baronet (age 75) died. His son Henry Tichborne 7th Baronet (age 28) succeeded 7th Baronet Tichborne of Tichborne in Hampshire.

On 16 Jul 1868 Richard White 2nd Earl Bantry (age 67) died. His brother William Henry Hare Hedges-White 3rd Earl Bantry (age 66) succeeded 3rd Earl Bantry.

On 16 Jul 1872 Charles Fitzroy 3rd Baron Southampton (age 67) died. His son Charles Fitzroy 4th Baron Southampton (age 5) succeeded 4th Baron Southampton.

On 16 Jul 1898 Harriot Brooke Countess Meath died.

On 16 Jul 1921 Robert Anderson 1st Baronet (age 83) died. Baronet Anderson of Parkmount in Belfast and Mullaghmore in Monaghan extinct.

On 16 Jul 1932 Herbert Plumer 1st Viscount Plumer (age 75) died. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

On 16 Jul 1937 John Melhuish Strudwick (age 88) died.

On 16 Jul 1986 Robert Boothby 1st Baron Boothby (age 86) died. Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head in Aberdeenshire extinct.