Login
Login

Duke of Grafton

{{short description|Title in the Peerage of England}}

{{about|the title in the Peerage of England|the British prime minister|Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox nobility title

| name = Dukedom of Grafton

| image = 150px
180px

| image_size =

| alt =

| caption = Quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly (Royal Arms of Charles II); 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the whole debruised by a baton sinister compony of six pieces argent and azure.

| creation_date = 11 September 1675{{cite book|last1=Collins|first1=Arthur|title=The Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom|date=1741|publisher=W. Strahan, J. F. and C. Rivington |page=62 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkhAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA62 |access-date=11 February 2016}}

| creation =

| monarch = Charles II

| peerage = Peerage of England

| baronetage =

| first_holder = Henry FitzRoy

| last_holder =

| present_holder = Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke

| heir_apparent = Alfred FitzRoy, Earl of Euston

| heir_presumptive =

| remainder_to = the 1st Duke's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten

| subsidiary_titles = {{ubl|Earl of Euston|Viscount Ipswich|Baron Sudbury}}

| status =

| extinction_date =

| family_seat = Euston Hall

| former_seat =

| motto =

| footnotes =

}}

Duke of Grafton is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1675 by Charles II of England for Henry FitzRoy, his second illegitimate son by the Duchess of Cleveland.Courthope, William, ed. (1838). Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (22nd ed., p. 8). London, UK: J. G. & F. Rivington The most notable duke of Grafton was Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, who served as Prime Minister from 1768–1770.Eccleshall, R., & Walker, G. (Eds.). (2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=K6qEAgAAQBAJ Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers]. (p. 61). Routledge

The Duke of Grafton holds three subsidiary titles, all created in 1675 in the peerage of England: Earl of Euston, Viscount Ipswich, and Baron Sudbury. Between 1723 and 1936 the dukes, being descended from the 1st Duke's wife Isabella FitzRoy, 2nd Countess of Arlington, also held the titles Earl of Arlington, Viscount Thetford and Baron Arlington. Those titles fell into abeyance between the 9th Duke's sisters,{{sfn|Hesilrige|1921|p=414}} with the abeyance of the barony of Arlington being ended in 1999.

The Dukes "created" and owned the London district of Fitzrovia, so named for their family name.

The title of the dukedom refers to the Honour of Grafton in the southeast of Northamptonshire, the titular village now being called Grafton Regis.

The family seat is Euston Hall in Suffolk, an 11,000-acre estate straddling the Norfolk-Suffolk border.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/royalty-obituaries/8444090/The-Duke-of-Grafton.html|title = The Duke of Grafton|website=Telegraph.co.uk}} The main burial places of the senior branch of the family are in and beside the parish church of Saint Genevieve at Euston, Suffolk.

The Duke of Grafton is fourth in the order of precedence after the dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, and Richmond.

Dukes of Grafton (1675)

File:Duke of Grafton coa.png

:Other titles (all): Earl of Euston, Viscount Ipswich and Baron Sudbury (1675)

:Other titles (2nd–9th Dukes): Earl of Arlington, Viscount Thetford and Baron Arlington (1672)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Alfred James Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (b. 2012).{{Cite web |url=http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/158305/grafton |title=GRAFTON - Births Announcements - Telegraph Announcements |date=8 March 2014 |website= |access-date=1 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308220323/http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/births/158305/grafton |archive-date=8 March 2014 |url-status=dead}}

{{clear}}

Arms

{{Infobox COA wide

|image=Coat of arms of the duke of Grafton.png

|coronet = The coronet of a Duke

|crest = On a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion statant guardant Or ducally crowned Azure and gorged with a Collar counter-compony Argent and of the fourth.

|escutcheon = The Royal Arms of Charles II, viz Quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland; the whole debruised by a Baton sinister compony of six pieces Argent and Azure

|supporters = Dexter: a Lion guardant Or ducally crowned Azure; Sinister: a Greyhound Argent, each gorged with a Collar counter-compony Argent and Azure.

|motto =Et Decus Et Pretium Recti (The ornament and recompense of virtue)

}}

Family tree and simplified line of succession

{{Dukes of Grafton family tree}}

{{Collapse top|title={{small|Line of succession (simplified)}}

{{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Grafton, Duke of |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Bosberry-Scott |editor2-first=Wendy |editor3-last=Belfield |editor3-first=Gervase |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|volume=1 |edition=150th |location=London |publisher=Debrett's Ltd. |publication-date=|pages=1608–1614 |arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}{{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Southampton, Baron |editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Bosberry-Scott |editor2-first=Wendy |editor3-last=Belfield |editor3-first=Gervase |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|volume=1 |edition=150th |location=London |publisher=Debrett's Ltd. |publication-date=|pages=3271–3276 |arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}{{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Daventry, Viscount|editor1-last=Morris |editor1-first=Susan |editor2-last=Bosberry-Scott |editor2-first=Wendy |editor3-last=Belfield |editor3-first=Gervase |title=Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage|volume=1 |edition=150th |location=London |publisher=Debrett's Ltd. |publication-date=|pages=1100–1103 |arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}}}

{{tree list}}

  • 30px Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton (1683–1757)
  • Lord Augustus FitzRoy (1716–1741)
  • 30px Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (1735–1811)
  • 30px George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton (1760–1844)
  • 30px Henry FitzRoy, 5th Duke of Grafton (1790–1863)
  • 30px William FitzRoy, 6th Duke of Grafton (1819–1882)
  • 30px Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of Grafton (1821–1918)
  • 30px Alfred FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton (1850–1930)
  • William Henry Alfred FitzRoy, Viscount Ipswich (1884–1918)
  • 30px John FitzRoy, 9th Duke of Grafton (1914–1936)
  • Lord Charles Edward FitzRoy (1857–1911)
  • 30px Charles FitzRoy, 10th Duke of Grafton (1892–1970)
  • 30px Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton (1919–2011)
  • James FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (1947–2009)
  • 30px Henry FitzRoy, 12th Duke of Grafton (born 1978)
  • (1). Alfred James Charles FitzRoy, Earl of Euston (born 2012)
  • (2). Lord Rafe Simon Lennox FitzRoy (born 2017)
  • (3). Lord Charles Patrick Hugh FitzRoy (born 1957)
  • (4). Nicholas Augustus Charles FitzRoy (born 1991)
  • (5). George James Hugh FitzRoy (born 1993)
  • Lord Edward Anthony Charles FitzRoy (1928–2007)
  • male issue and descendants in remainder
  • Admiral Lord William FitzRoy (1782–1857)
  • Francis Horatio FitzRoy (1823–1900)
  • Cyril Duncombe FitzRoy (1861–1939)
  • Charles Francis Mark FitzRoy (1909–1994)
  • male issue and descendants in remainder
  • 30px Charles FitzRoy, 1st Baron Southampton (1737–1797)
  • 30px George Ferdinand FitzRoy, 2nd Baron Southampton (1761–1810)
  • 30px Charles FitzRoy, 3rd Baron Southampton (1804–1872)
  • 30px Charles Henry FitzRoy, 4th Baron Southampton (1867–1958)
  • 30px Barons Southampton
  • Hon. Edward FitzRoy (1869–1943) m. 30px Muriel FitzRoy, 1st Viscountess Daventry (1869–1962)
  • 30px Viscounts Daventry

{{tree list/end}}

{{collapse bottom}}

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

Further reading

  • {{cite book |last=Hesilrige |first=Arthur G. M. |date=1921| title=Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy| url=https://archive.org/details/debrettspeeraget00unse/page/414 | location=160A, Fleet Street, London, England|publisher=Dean & Son|page=414}}
  • Falk, Bernard. The Royal Fitz Roys; Dukes of Grafton through Four Centuries. Hutchinson, 1950.

External links

{{Commons category|Dukes of Grafton}}

  • [http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/grafton1675.htm Cracroft's Peerage page]

{{Extant British dukedoms}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grafton}}

*

Category:Dukedoms in the Peerage of England

Category:Noble titles created in 1675

Grafton