Occupation: 1st Earl of Southampton 1670
K.G. 1-Apr-1673
1st Duke of Southampton 10-Sep-1675
1st Baron Newbury 10-Sep-1675
1st Earl of Chichester 10-Sep-1675
1st Duke of Cleveland 9-Oct-1709
Comments: formerly Charles Palmer, Lord Limbricke.
Matriculated Dec-1675 at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) under Dr. Aldrich, M.A. 18-May-1678.
Dean Prideaux wrote of him at Oxford, in 1676 that he: "will ever be very simple, and scarce, I believe, ever attain to the reputation of not being thought a fool."
He first married in 1671, at the age of 9, Mary Wood, only daughter and heir of Sir Henry Wood, Bart., Clerk of the Green Cloth by his second wife, Mary, dau. of Sir Thomas Gardiner, Solicitor-General. Charles's bride Mary was about 7 years old. In 1677, at the age of legal consent, the ceremony was repeated. She died of smallpox when scarcely 17, on 15-Nov-1680. She was buried 16-Nov-1680 as 'Duchess of Southampton', in Westminster Abbey. On 16-Nov-1680, the Countess of Sunderland said of her death: "Poor little Duchess of Southampton is dead of the smallpox, which every creature is sad for."
Spouse: Mary Wood (Married 1671)
Children:
Charles's Marriage #2
Spouse: (Married 1671)
Children:
Spouse: Anne Pulteney (Married Nov-1694)
Children: Barbara Fitzroy, Anne Fitzroy, Grace Fitzroy, William Fitzroy, Charles Fitzroy, Henry Fitzcharles
Charles's Heritage
Parents: Charles II, Barbara Villiers
Siblings: Anne Fitzroy, Henry Fitzroy, Charlotte Fitzroy, George Fitzroy, Barbara Fitzroy