Marquess of Heusden
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Earl of Clancarty
Earl of Clancarty, in the Irish counties of Cork and of Galway, is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.-First creation: MacCarty family of Muskerry:...
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Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty was credited with resolving various border disputes in Holland, Germany and Italy at the Congress of Vienna
Congress of Vienna
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(1814 – 1815) and in his role as Ambassador
Ambassador
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to the Netherlands
Netherlands
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. For his service as ambassador to The Hague
The Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
, he was raised into the Dutch nobility with the creation of the hereditary title Markies van Heusden
Heusden
Heusden is a municipality and a city in the South of the Netherlands. It is located between the cities Waalwijk and 's-Hertogenbosch.- Population centres :...
(Marquess of Heusden) by King William I of the Netherlands
William I of the Netherlands
William I Frederick, born Willem Frederik Prins van Oranje-Nassau , was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg....
(royal decree 8 July 1815 no. 14).
Nobility
The 2nd Earl of Clancarty and all his descendants belong to the Dutch nobility, in which all the descendant Earls have the title of Marquess of Heusden and the rest of their family the Dutch honorificHonorific
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Jonkheer
Jonkheer
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or Jonkvrouw.
Only two outside the Netherlands living non-Dutch families have been raised into the Dutch nobility: besides the family Le Poer Trench also the family Wellesley, with the Duke of Wellington
Duke of Wellington
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as the Prince of Waterloo
Prince of Waterloo
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List of Marquesses of Heusden (1815 - )
- Richard Le Poer Trench, 1st Marquess of Heusden (1767–1837) since 1815
- William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 2nd Marquess of Heusden (1803–1872) since 1837
- Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, 3rd Marquess of Heusden (1834–1891) since 1872
- William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 4th Marquess of Heusden (1868–1929) since 1891
- Richard Frederick John Donough Le Poer Trench, 5th Marquess of Heusden (1891–1971) since 1929
- Greville Sydney Rocheforte Le Poer Trench, 6th Marquess of Heusden (1902–1975) since 1971
- (William Francis) Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 7th Marquess of HeusdenBrinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of ClancartyWilliam Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden was a prominent ufologist. He was an Irish peer, as well a nobleman in the Dutch nobility.-Biography:...
(1911–1995) since 1975 - Nicholas Power Richard Le Poer Trench, 8th Marquess of HeusdenNicholas Le Poer Trench, 9th Earl of ClancartyNicholas Le Poer Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty, 8th Marquess of Heusden is an Irish peer, as well a nobleman in the Dutch nobility. He serves as an elected Crossbench member of the British House of Lords....
(b. 1952) since 1995
There is no heir to the title.