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Earl Mountbatten of Burma

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{{Infobox nobility title

| name = Earldom of Mountbatten of Burma

| image = File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg File:Lord Mountbatten of Burma-CoA-Knatchbull-Shield.svg

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| caption = Quarterly, 1st: azure, three cross-crosslets fitchée between two bendlets or (Knatchbull); 2nd: argent, two pallets sable (Mountbatten); 3rd: azure, a lion rampant double queued barry of ten argent and gules crowned or a bordure compony of the second and third (Hesse, with a bordure for difference); 4th: the Royal Arms differenced with a label of three points argent the centre point charged with a rose gules barbed vert and each of the other points with an ermine spot (Princess Alice).

| creation_date = 28 October 1947

| creation =

| monarch = George VI

| peerage = Peerage of the United Kingdom

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| first_holder = Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma

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| present_holder = Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl

| heir_apparent = Nicholas Louis Charles Norton Knatchbull

| heir_presumptive =

| remainder_to = the 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten; the 1st Earl's daughters and heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten

| subsidiary_titles = Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
Baron Brabourne
Baron Romsey
Baronet 'of Mersham Hatch'

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| family_seat = Broadlands{{cite web|url=https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/broadlands-1|website=lordmountbattenofburma.com|title=Broadlands}}

| former_seat = Classiebawn Castle

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Earl Mountbatten of Burma is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, created in 1947 for Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, who in 1946 had been created the first Viscount Mountbatten of Burma. He was later promoted to Admiral of the Fleet.

The family seat is Newhouse Manor, near Ashford, Kent.

Creation

The Earldom was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom on 28 October 1947 for Rear Admiral Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma.

{{cite web| url=https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/copy-of-birth-1| website=lordmountbattenofburma.com| title=Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma}}

The subsidiary titles of the earldom are Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, of Romsey in the County of Southampton (created earlier in 1946), and Baron Romsey, of Romsey in the County of Southampton (created together with the Earldom in 1947). All these peerages are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and have the same special remainder (see below).

Lord Romsey was the courtesy title by which Lady Mountbatten's eldest son and heir was known until in 2005 he succeeded his father John Knatchbull, 7th Baron Brabourne as Baron Brabourne, of Brabourne in the County of Kent. Subsequently, with the death of his mother on 13 June 2017, he became the 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma. As a consequence, both the Brabourne peerage and the Knatchbull Baronetcy, of Mersham Hatch, in the Baronetage of England (created in 1641 for Sir Norton Knatchbull) became subsidiary titles to the Earldom.

Lord Brabourne is now the courtesy title by which Lord Mountbatten's eldest son is known.[https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/12/prince-charless-godson-gets-engaged-professional-mermaid-8336521/ "Prince Charles’s godson gets engaged to a professional mermaid"], Metro, 12 January 2019

Special remainder

When elevated to the peerage, the first Earl had no son, and the letters patent creating the peerages granted to him were all subject to the following special remainder, in the absence of heirs male:

...to his eldest daughter Patricia Edwina Victoria, Baroness Brabourne...and the heirs male of her body lawfully begotten; and in default of such issue to every other daughter lawfully begotten of the said Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas... successively in order of seniority of age and priority of birth and to the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten...

As a result, since the first Lord Mountbatten never had a son, his elder daughter, Patricia, succeeded as the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma upon her father's death.{{cite web| url=https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/the-2nd-countess-mountbatten-of-bur| website=lordmountbattenofburma.com| title=the 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma| access-date=8 November 2021| archive-date=29 March 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200329135334/https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/the-2nd-countess-mountbatten-of-bur| url-status=dead}} Should the legitimate male line of descent of the 2nd Countess become extinct, the peerages would be inherited by her sister, Lady Pamela Hicks, and her legitimate heirs male. (But there are ten living male-line descendants of the 2nd Countess, as of 2024.) Should the legitimate male lines of both sisters fail, the peerages would become extinct.

While the male-line heirs of Lady Pamela Hicks are in the line of succession to the earldom, they are not in line of succession to the Barony of Brabourne. Should the 7th Baron Brabourne's line become extinct, that peerage would revert to a male-line descendant of the 1st Baron Brabourne's 3rd son.{{cite web| url=https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com/john-7th-lord-brabourne| website=lordmountbattenofburma.com| title=John, 7th Lord Brabourne}}

Earls Mountbatten of Burma (1947)

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! colspan="7" |Created by George VI of the United Kingdom

style="width:10%%" | #style="width:15%" | NamePeriodstyle="width:15%" | Spousestyle="width:30%" | NotesOther titlesArms
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1Louis Mountbatten
(1900–1979)		1947–1979married, 1922,
Edwina Ashley
(1900–1960)		Born a prince of Battenberg, he renounced the title and adopted the name Mountbatten1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma
and 1st Baron Romsey		90px100px
rowspan="2" | 2rowspan="2" | Patricia Knatchbull
(1924–2017)		rowspan="2" | 1979–2017rowspan="2" | married, 1946,
John Knatchbull,
7th Baron Brabourne
(1924–2005)		rowspan="2" | Elder daughter of the 1st Earl2nd Viscountess Mountbatten of Burma and 2nd Baroness Romsey
(in her own right)

| rowspan="2" |File:2nd Lady Mountbaten Arms.png

Baroness Brabourne
(by marriage)
rowspan="2" | 3rowspan="2" | Norton Knatchbull
(born 1947)		rowspan="2" | since 2017rowspan="2" | married, 1979,
Penelope Eastwood
(born 1953)		rowspan="2" | Eldest son of the 2nd Countess3rd Viscount Mountbatten of Burma and 3rd Baron Romsey
(inherited from mother)		rowspan="2" | 90px100px
Arms granted to Earls Mountbatten of Burma who descend from the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma's elder daughter: see {{London Gazette |issue=44059 |date=21 July 1966 |page=8227}}


"ROYAL LICENCE


Whitehall, London S.W.I.


30th June 1966.


The QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give and

grant unto Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas

(Mountbatten), Earl Mountbatten of Burma, K.G.,

G.C.B., O.M., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O., D.S.O.,

P.C., Admiral of the Fleet, Her Majesty's Royal

Licence and Authority that every person being a

descendant of his elder daughter and coheir presumptive

Patricia Edwina Victoria wife of John Ulick

(Knatchbull) Baron Brabourne upon whom the title

and dignity of Earl Mountbatten of Burma may

descend by virtue of His Majesty's Letters Patent of

Creation bearing date the 18th day of October 1947

may bear and use in lieu of and in substitution for

his own paternal Arms, Crests and Supporters, the

Arms of Knatchbull quarterly with the Arms of

Mountbatten, the Arms of the Grand Duchy of Hesse

and the Arms of Princess Alice Maud Mary, Grand

Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine together with the

Crests of Knatchbull, of Mountbatten and of the

Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Supporters of

Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, of Romsey in the

County of Southampton, the whole with due and

proper differences according to the Laws of Arms, the

said Arms, Crests and Supporters being first duly

exemplified according to the Laws of Arms and

recorded in Her Majesty's College of Arms: otherwise

the said Royal Licence and Permission to be

void and of none effect.

And to command that the said Royal Concession and Declaration be recorded in the said College of Arms."

8th Baron Brabourne and 17th Knatchbull Baronet of Mersham Hatch
(inherited from father)

The heir apparent is the present holder's only son, Nicholas Louis Charles Norton Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne (born 1981).

Line of succession

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  • 15px Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–1979)
  • 15px Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924–2017)
  • 15px Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born 1947)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (1) Nicholas Knatchbull, Lord Brabourne (b. 1981) Also in the line of succession to the Barony of Brabourne, in order, starting with Nicholas Knatchbull.
  • (2) The Hon. Alexander Knatchbull (b. 2022) {{cite news|last=Davies-Evitt |first=Dora |date=27 June 2022 |title=Prince Charles's godson welcomes first child |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/prince-charless-godson-welcomes-first-child |work=Tatler |location= |access-date=14 July 2022}}
  • (3) The Hon. Michael Knatchbull (b. 1950)
  • (4) The Hon. Philip Knatchbull (b. 1961)
  • (5) Frederick Knatchbull (b. 2003)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (6) John Knatchbull (b. 2004)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (7) The Hon. Timothy Knatchbull (b. 1964)
  • (8) Milo Knatchbull (b. 2001)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (9) Ludovic Knatchbull (b. 2003)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (10) Lady Pamela Hicks (b. 1929)
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (11) Ashley Hicks (b. 1963)
  • (12) Caspian Hicks (b. 2018){{cite news |author= |date=2 January 2019 |title=Exclusive: Kata Hicks on the end of her marriage and moving on |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/kata-hicks-exclusive-interview |work=Tatler |location= |access-date=14 July 2022}}
  • {{Tree list/final branch}} (13) Horatio Hicks (b. 2019)

{{Tree list/end}}

Source: {{cite book |year=2019|chapter=Mountbatten of Burma, Earl (Knatchbull) |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. |pages=3730–3735 |arxiv= |bibcode= |doi= |isbn=978-1-999767-0-5-1}}

Coat of arms of the 1st earl

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File:Coat of Arms of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.svg

Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure a lion rampant double-queued barry of ten argent and gules armed and langued of the last crowned or within a bordure company of the second and third (Hesse); 2nd and 3rd, argent two pallets sable (Battenberg); charged on the honour point with an escutcheon of the arms of the late Princess Alice, namely: the royal arms differenced by a label of three points argent the centre point charged with a rose gules barbed Vert and each of the other points with an ermine spot sable. The shield is encircled with the Order of the Garter, of which the 1st earl was a member.

References

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External links

  • {{Commons category-inline|Earls Mountbatten of Burma}}
  • [https://www.lordmountbattenofburma.com Tribute & Memorial Website to Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma]

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