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Gentleman's Magazine 1865 part 1 p.101
The earldom of Carlisle was created in 1661, in favour of
the great-grandson of Lord William Howard (the famous
"Belted Will"), who was the second son of Thomas, Duke of
Norfolk, attainted and beheaded in 1572. Through seven
generations, extending over two centuries, the title has
descended direct from father to son till now, and the
marriage connections of the respective holders have been
exclusively aristocratic. The third earl married a daughter
of the Earl of Essex; the fourth married a daughter of Lord
Byron; the fifth married a daughter of the Marquis of
Stafford; and the sixth married a daughter of the Duke of
Devonshire. The late Earl's sisters, six in number, became
allied by marriage with the houses of two dukedoms, two
earldoms, and two baronies.
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