George Villiers, 2nd duke of Buckingham, (born January 30, 1628, London, Englanddied April 16, 1687, Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire), English politician, a leading member of King Charles II's inner circle of ministers known as the Cabal. [2] Meet the English nobleman who may have been King James' Here I must breath a while to satisfie some that perhaps To Dover, through bad horses, and those pretty impediments, they came not before six at night; where they found Sir Francis Cottington, then secretary to the prince, now Baron of Hanwart, aad Mr. Endimion Porter, who had been sent before, to provide a vessel for their transportation. London, Printed for William Shewes, 1642. George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - Wikipedia After this faire discharge, all civill honours having showred on him before, there now fell out great occasions to draw forth his spirits into action, a breach first with Spaine, and not long after with France it selfe, notwithstanding so Joseph Coulon de Villiers, Sieur de Jumonville (September 8, 1718 - May 28, 1754) was a French Canadian military officer. One quote describing him notes: "From the nails of his fingers - nay from the sole of his foot - to the crown of his head, there was no blemish in him. However, for my part, I have no servile or ignoble end in my present labour, which may, on either side, restrain or embase the freedom of my poor judgment; J will, therefore steer as evenly as I can, and deduce him from his cradle through the deep and lubrick ways of state and court, till he was swallowed in the gulf of fatality. Note here even with a point of a Diamond by what oblige steppes and immaginable preparatives, the high disposes of Princes affections doth sometimes contriue the secrets of his will, for by this casuall curiosity, it fell out that when afterwards the marriage came in motion betweene our Soveraigne Lord and the aforesaid most Amiable Princesse. The now Lord Goring a Gentleman of true honour, and of vigilant affections for his friend, sends to the Duke in all expedition an expresse messenger, with advisement to assure his own Person, by declining the ordinary Road to London, for that he had credible intelligence of a plot against His life to be put in Execution upon him in his said journey towards the Court: The Duke meeting the messenger on the way, read the Letter, and smothering it in his pocket without the least imaginable apprehension, rides forwards: His Company being about that time not above seven or eight in number, and those no otherwise provided for their defence, then with ordinary swords: after this, the Duke had advanced three miles before he met with an old woman neer a Town in the road, who demanded whether the Duke were in the Company; and bewraying some especiall occasion to This action, as I hear, hath been delivered by a noble gentleman of much learning and active spirits, himself the fitter to do it right, which, in truth, he greatly wanted, having found more honourable censure even from some of the French writers, than it had generally amongst ourselves at home. Now because the whole Kingdome stood in a zealous trepidation of the absence of such a Prince; I have beene the more desirous to research with some diligence, the severall passages of the said journey, and the particular Accidents of any moment in their way. Before long, he also mastered the skills of courtly behavior and developed an appropriate wardrobe for the segments of society he hoped to join. The Duke himselfe personally imployed to the States Generall. Insomuch as it pleased him to descend and to avale his goodnesse, even to the giving of his foresaid friend Sir Iohn Grcham secret directions, how and by what degrees he should bring him into favour. Quarto, containing thirty pages. zealous in the cause. In Ianuary of the same yeere he was advanced Earle of Buckingham, and sworne here of his Majesties Privie Counsell: As if a favorite were not so before, the March ensuing he attended the King into Scotland, And was likewise sworne a Counseller in that Kingdome, whereas (I have beene instructed by unpassionate men) he did carry himselfe with singular sweetnesse and temper, which I held very credible for it behoved him, being new in favor, and succeeding one of their owne; to study a moderate stile among those generous Spirits. The day following, the Bishop of Ely, her devoted friend, who was thought the fittest preparer of her minde to receive such a dolefull accident, came to visite her; but hearing she was at rest, he attended till she should awake of her self, which she did with the affrightment of a dream, Her brother seeming to passe thorow a field with her in her Coach; where hearing of a sudden shout of the people, and asking the reason, it was answered to have been for joy that the Duke of Buckingham was sick. His father died when he was just 12, and his education was almost solely under the purview of his mother who trained him early on for a courtiers life. him; but whom he meant, I know not, and am loth to rove at coniectures. This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Page 6 On June 13, his personal astrologer, John Lambe, was killed by a mob in Cheapside who shouted he was the dukes devil.. Yet I cannot omit some things which intervened, at the meeting of two Pleiades, methinks, not unlike that, which astrologers call, a conjunction of planets, of no very benign aspect, the one to the other; I mean the Marquis of Buckingham, and the Conde d'Olivers: They had some sharper, and some milder differences, which might easily happen, in such an intervention of grandees; both vehement on the parts which they swayed. In fact, the activity in France hadnt looked great to his colleagues. beene ravished by the German Eagle, mixed with Spanish Feathers, a Princesse resplendent in darknesse, and whose vertues were borne within the chaunce, but without the power of fortune. In April, a pamphlet likely written by Hapsburg propagandists appeared accusing George of having murdered James. These were they, which, after his death, were as nobly presented, as they had been bought, to the university of Cambridge, by the Duchess Dowager, as soon as she understood, by the aforesaid Dr. Mason, her husband's intention, who had a purpose likewise, as I am well instructed, to raise in the said university, whereof he was chancellor, a fair case for such monuments, and to furnish it with other choice collections from all parts of his own charge, perchance in some emulation of that famous treasury of knowledge at Oxford, without parallel in the christian world. He took to wife, eight years and two months before his death, the Lady Catharine Manners, heir-general to the noble house of Rutland, who, besides a solid addition to his estate, brought him three sons, and a daughter, called the Lady Mary, his first-born. Being to take his leave of my Lords Grace of Canturbury, the only Bishop of London, whom he knew well planted in the Kings unchangeable affection, by his own great abilities, after cortefies of courage had passed between them, My, Lord sayes the Duke, I know your Lordship hath very worthily good accesses unto the King our Soveraign, let me pray you to put His Majesty in minde to be good, as I no way distrust, to my poor wife and children: at which words or at his countenance in the delivery, or at both, My Lord Bishop being somewhat troubled, took the freedom to aske him where he had never any secret abodements in hi minde. George was born in Leicestershire in 1592 to Sir George Villiers, a knight, and Mary Beaumont. his iourney at Rbez; and his third, the Lord Francis, was born after his fathers death; so as neither his first nor his last were participant of any sense of his misfortunes or felicities: His second son, now Duke of Buckingham was born, to cheer him after his return from that unlucky Voyage. The duke's carriage was surely noble throughout to the gentlemen of fair respect, bountiful to the soldier, according to any special value which he espied in any, tender and careful of those that were hurt, of unquestionable courage in himself, and rather fearful of fame, than danger. And yet came home in his naturall plight, without affected formes (the ordinary disease of Travellers. Vous recherchez les derniers avis de dcs Villiers-Saint-Georges - Seine-et-Marne (77) sur le site Libra Memoria. George Villiers Facts, Worksheets, Early Life & Background - School History Heavy Water: Gerard Butler recounts the two-wave hold-down that nearly ended his life during the filming of Chasing Mavericks. Anne of Austria | queen of France | Britannica Needless to say, the military excursion was a disaster and blame was heaped at Georges feet. As if indeed, according to that pleasant Maxime of State, Kingdomes were never married, this must of necessity involue the Duke in businesse enough, to have over-set a lesser Vessell, being the next Commander under the Crowne of Portes and ships. Thrilled, he ordered a carriage to take him to Charles, but as he made his way through the inn he paused to greet one of his colonels. Mr. Porter was taken in, not only as a bed-chamber servant of confidence to his highness, but likewise as a necessary and useful instrument for his natural skill in the Spanish tougue. After the ceremony was over, he berated Henrietta Maria, but the 15-year-old stood her ground and relations never much improved. He did not much strengthen his own Page 11 ), Charles reinstated the laws, but the move did nothing to help Georges case. Duke was personally imployed on either element, both as Admirall and Generall, with hope in that service to recover the publike good will, which he saw by his own example might quickly be won and lost: This action as I hear hath been delivered by a Noble Gentleman of much learning and active spirits, himself the fitter to do it right, which in truth he greatly wanted, having found more honourable censure even from some of the French Writers then it had generally amongst our selves at home; Now because the said work is not yet flowing into the light, I will but sweep the way with a few notes, and there only touching the Dukes own deportment in that Island the proper subject of my quill, for in the generall survey of this action, there was matter of glory and grief so equally disturbnted on both sides, as if fortune had meant we should quickly be friends again, wherein let their names that were bravely lost, be rather memorized in the full table of time, for my part I love no ambitious pains in an eloquent description of mseries. I have spent some enquiry whether he had any ominous presagement before his end; wherein though both ancient and modern Stories have been infected with much vanity; yet oftentimes things fall out of that kind which may bear a sober constitution, whereof I will glean two or three in the Dukes case. About the age of eighteen he travelled into France, where he improved himself well in the language, for one that had so little grammatical foundation, but more in the exercises of that nobility, for the space of three years; and yet came home in his natural plight, without affected forms, the ordinary disease of travellers. The eldest of the brethren, and heir of the Name, was made a Baronet; but abstained from Court, enjoying perhaps the greater greatnesse of self fruition. Her brother seeming to passe thorow a field with her in her Coach; where hearing of a sudden shout of the people, and asking the reason, it was answered to have been for joy that the Duke of Buckingham was sick. Charles was told the news while he was at prayers. A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=A_Short_View_of_the_Life_and_Death_of_George_Villiers,_Duke_of_Buckingham&oldid=11835140. Everyone knew. By the next year, George was still safe, but English and French ships were clashing on the Channel, prompting yet another call for war. Page 27 It must needs be (howsoever unknowne) no small spurre to the treaty, that shee hath not before beene altogether a stranger to his Eye. Villiers Family | Westminster Abbey The next morning, for the night was tempestuous, on the sixteenth of the foresaid month, taking ship at Dover, about six o'clock, they landed the same day at Boulogne in France, near two hours after noon; reaching Monstreuel that night, like men of dispatch; and Paris the second day after, being Friday the twenty-first; but about three posts before, they had met with two German gentlemen, that came newly from England, where they had seen at Newmarket the prince and the marquis taking coach together with the King, and retained such a strong impression of them, that they now bewrayed some knowledge of their persons; but were out-faced by Sir Richard Graham, who would needs persuade them they were mistaken, which in truth is no very hard matter; for the very strangeness of the thing itself, and almost the impossibility to conceive so great a prince, and favourite, so suddenly metamorphosed into travellers, with no greater train, was enough to make any man living unbelieve his five senses. To which the marquis gave a well-tempered answer: That, though love had made his highness steal out of his own country, yet fear would never make him run out of Spain, in other manner than should become a prince of his royal and generous virtues. At all which confused fiction, the Marquis had no leisure to laugh, but thought best to dismark his beard, and so told him, that he was going covertly with, such slight company, to take a secret view (being admiral) of the forwardness of his Majesty's fleet, which was then in preparation on the narrow seas: This, with much a-do, did somewhat handsomely heal the disguisement. Christopher Villiers, the youngest brother of the Duke, pre-deceased him, dying in 1624. The eldest of the brethren, and heir of the name, was made a baronet, but abstained from court, enjoying, perhaps, the greater greatness of self-fruition. On the way, on afterwards, the baggage post boy, who had beene at Court, got (I know not how) a glimering who they were; But his mouth was easily shut. And in summe, all the circumstances and respect of Religion and State, intermixed together in that commicture, will better become a Royall History or a Counsell table, then a single life, yet I cannot omit some things which intervened, at the meeting of two Pleiades, me thinkes not unlike that which Astrologers call a conjunction of Planets, of no very benigne Aspect, the one to the other; I meane the Marquis of Buckingham, and the Conde D'Olivers: They had some sharper, and some milder differences which might easily happen in such an interveene of Grandes; both vehement on the parts which they swayed. Now the men fell a rubbing of armour, which a great while had lain oiled; the magazines of ammunition are viewed; the officers of remains called to account, frequent councils of war, as many private conferences with expert seamen, a fleet in preparation for some attempt upon Spain. On this day in 1628: Charles I's close friend, and sworn enemy of And foure dayes after, they arrived at Madrid, being Wednesday the fift of March. Whereof the Duke getting knowledge, by his worthy and learned Secretary Doctor Mason, Interverted the bargaine, and gave the poore Widdow for them five hundred pounds, a summe above their weight in silver, and a mixed act both of bounty and charity, the more laudable being much out of his naturall Element. And, four days after, they arrived at Madrid, being Wednesday, the fifth of March. On the way afterwards, the baggage postboy, who had been at court, got, I know not how, a glimmering who they were; but his mouth was easily shut. But let me resume the file of my relation, which this Object of bookes (best agreeable to my course of life) hath a little interrupted, the aforesaid Negotiation though prosecuted with heale and probable appaof (As it turned out, so would English kings. Gerard Butler Recalls His Near Death Experience At Mavericks George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham, also called (1614-16) Sir George Villiers, or (1616-17) Baron Whaddon, Viscount Villiers, or (1617-18) earl of Buckingham, or (1618-23) marquess of Buckingham, (born August 28, 1592, Brooksby, Leicestershire, Englanddied August 23, 1628, Portsmouth, Hampshire), royal favourite and statesman who virtually. . In the issue of the whole business, he seems charged in opinion with a kind of improvident conscience, having brought off that with him to camp, perchance, too much from a court, where fortune had never deceived him. For these Offices and Dignities already rehearsed and these of the like nature which I shall after set downe in their place, (were as I am ready to say) but the facings or fringes of his greatnesse, in comparison of that trust, which his last most gracious Master did cast vpon him, in the one and twentieth yeere of his Raigne when he made him the Chiefe concomitant of his heire apparant, and only sonne, our deere Soveraigne: now being in a journey of much Adventure, and which (to shew the strength of his privacie) had beene before not communicated with any other of his Majesties most reserved Counsellers at home, being carryed with great closenesse, liker a busines of love then state; as it was in the first intendment. He was only seven months old when his father was assassinated at Portsmouth by the disaffected officer John Felton. The second was the remonstrance itself of the lower house of parliament against him, which, perchance, he thought the fairest cover; so he put in the second place, whatsoever were the true motive, which, I think, none can determine, but the prince of darkness itself; he did thus prosecute the effect: In a bye cutler's shop on Tower-hill, he bought a tenpenny knife (so cheap was the instrument of this great attempt, and the sheath thereof he sewed to the lining of his pocket) that he might at any moment draw forth the blade alone with one hand, for he had maimed the other: This done, he made shift, partly, as it is said, on horseback, and partly on foot, to get to Portsmouth, for he was indigent and low in money, which, perhaps, might have a little edged his desperation. To counter-act this, he urged Charles to reinstate the anti-Catholic penal laws, a fact well-known to the new queen it did nothing to help their relationship, which in turn severely damaged the new royal marriage. And, in the next August, he created him Baron of Whaddon, and Viscount Villiers. substance in Court, but stood there on his own feet; for the truth is, the most of his Allies rather leaned upon him, then shoared him up. In a by-Cutlers shop on Tower hill, he bought a ten-penny knife (so cheap was the instrument of this great attempt, and the sheath thereof he sewed to the lining of his pocket) that he might at any moment draw forth the Blade alone with one hand, for he had maymed the other: This done, he made shift, partly, as it is said, on Charles sent George to France to collect his bride, a job to which he committed splendidly with splashy new coaches, liveries and clothing. John Felton ( c. 1595 - 29 November 1628) was a lieutenant in the English Army who stabbed George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham to death in the Greyhound Pub of Portsmouth on 23 August 1628. This is all that I dare present of that nature to any of judgement, not unwillingly omitting certain prognostick Anagrams, and such strains of fancy. Page 24 Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia View Complete Profile Matching family tree profiles for George Villiers, Sir 2nd Baron of Brooksby George Villiers in MyHeritage family trees (die Arold-Kreiselmeyer-Zucker Linie) Sir George Villiers 2nd Baronet Villiers in MyHeritage family trees (sherval Web Site) George, 2nd Baronet, Sir, Villiers in MyHeritage family trees (barello Web Site) It had disastrous consequences for Britain and left the Spaniards extremely confused. which, to shew the strength of his privacy, had been before not communicated with any other of his Majesty's most reserved counsellors at home, being carried with great closeness, liker a business of love than state; as it was in the first intendment. The setting of his looks, every motion, every bending of his body was admirable.. However Villiers had became increasingly unpopular at court. Page 3 A SHORT VIEVV OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF GEORGE VILLERS, Duke of Buckingham.
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