• Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland (1640–1709) became a mistress of King Charles II of England, by whom she had five children. The Villiers family was...
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    ambitious Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham, to marry her son. However, Manners was a strict Roman Catholic, and the King refused to allow Villiers to marry...
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    the public. Villiers was born in Brooksby, Leicestershire, on 20 August 1592, the second son of the minor gentleman Sir George Villiers (1550–1606) from...
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    Mary Villiers, Countess of Buckingham (née Beaumont; c. 1570 – 19 April 1632) was a British peeress. She is perhaps best known as the mother of the royal...
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  • John Villiers (c. 1591 – 18 February 1658) was an English courtier from the Villiers family. The eldest son of Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont,...
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  • Look up villiers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Villiers may refer to: Villiers, Indre, in the Indre département Villiers, Vienne, in the Vienne département...
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    favourite, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham and of several other sons who became prominent at court, establishing the Villiers family at the heart of...
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  • great-grandson of the 4th Earl of Clarendon. Villiers was born on 29 September 1933 in London, the son of Eric Hyde Villiers and Joan Ankaret Talbot. He was brought...
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  • Christopher Francis Villiers (born 7 September 1960) is an English actor, screenwriter and producer. Villiers was born in London, the son of Royal Air...
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    (née Barbara Villiers /ˈvɪlərz/ VIL-ərz; 27 November [O.S. 17 November] 1640 – 9 October 1709), was an English royal mistress of the Villiers family and perhaps...
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