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Personal data John GRENVILLE 

• He was born on August 29, 1628 in Kilhampton, Cornwall.
• Title: 1st Earl of Bath
• (Alternative Name Spelling) : Granville.
• He died on August 21, 1701 in St James Palace, St James, Westminster, Middlesex, he was 72 years old.
• A child of Bevil GRENVILLE and Grace SMYTHE


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Household of John GRENVILLE

He is married to Johanna WYCHE.

They got married October 1652 at Stowe, Kilkhampton, Stratton, Cornwall, he was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Jane GRENVILLE  1653-???? 
2. John GRENVILLE  1665-1707
3. Grace GRENVILLE  1654-1695 
4. Catherine GRENVILLE  1666-????
5. Charles GRENVILLE  1661-1701 

Notes about John GRENVILLE

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath PC (29 August 1628 - 22 August 1701), of Stowe in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall, was an English Royalist soldier and statesman during the Civil War who played a major role in the 1660 Restoration of the Monarchy and was later appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was the first in his family to adopt the modernised spelling as Granville of their ancient surname Grenville, which emphasised their supposed ancient 11th-century origin from the Normandy manor of Granville, Manche.

He was from a very ancient family supposedly descended from Rollo, 1st Duke of Normandy (c. 846 - c. 931), and was the eldest son and heir of Sir Bevil Grenville (1596-1643) lord of the manors of Bideford in Devon and Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall, a Royalist soldier killed in action in heroic circumstances at the Battle of Lansdowne in 1643 during the Civil War. Sir Bevil served as MP for Cornwall 1621-1625 and 1640-42, and for Launceston 1625-1629 and 1640. John's mother was Grace Smythe, a daughter by his second marriage of Sir George Smith (d.1619) of Madworthy, near Exeter, Devon, a merchant who served as MP for Exeter in 1604, was three times Mayor of Exeter and was Exeter's richest citizen, possessing 25 manors or part manors. John had thirteen siblings, all by Royal Warrant of Precedence granted the rank and title of Earl's children by King Charles II on 20 August 1675, in recognition of their father's services. Grace's half-sister Elizabeth Smythe was the wife of Sir Thomas Monk (1570-1627) of Potheridge, Devon, MP for Camelford in 1626, and mother of the great General George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (1608-1670), the main figure behind the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. It was largely due to his close kinship to his first cousin the Duke that Sir John Grenville was raised to the peerage in 1660 as Earl of Bath and was also granted the reversion of the Dukedom of Albemarle in the event of the failure of George Monck's male issue.

Granville fought in the English Civil War in his father's regiment on the side of the defeated King Charles I (1625-1649). He was created a knight due to his bravery, and became a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, later King Charles II (1660-1685)

He accompanied the future King Charles II into exile, and mediated with the Long Parliament. In 1660 Granville was instrumental in the negotiations between his first cousin George Monck, and Charles II that led to the Restoration of the Monarchy to that King. Shortly after the Restoration, he contested the succession of the Dukedom of Albemarle, but lost. On 20 April 1661 he was created by King Charles II Baron Granville, Viscount Granville and Earl of Bath and in 1663 was invested as a Privy Councillor. In 1665 he served, in title at least, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, although he never went to Ireland and consequently is not considered a true holder of that office. In about 1680 he rebuilt his ancestral seat of Stowe House in Cornwall in a grand style befitting his new noble status. His cousin the Duke of Albemarle between 1660 and his death in 1670, had commenced rebuilding on a similarly grand scale of his own ancestral seat of Potheridge in Devon, about 18 miles to the east of Stowe. Both new mansions were demolished within a few decades.

Lord Bath was twice appointed colonel of the 10th Regiment of Foot, first in 1685 then again in 1688 at around the time of the Glorious Revolution.

In October 1652 at Kilkhampton John Granville married Jane Wyche, a daughter of Sir Peter Wyche, English ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. By his wife he had five children:
Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath (1661-1701), eldest son and heir. He died from a gunshot wound during the preparations for his father's funeral, possibly suicide. He was twice married, firstly to Lady Martha Osborne, daughter of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds (d. 11 September 1689, aged 25), and secondly, on 10 March 1691, to Isabella van Nassau (bapt. 20 April 1668, d. in childbirth on 30 January 1692 at London), sister of Henry Nassau d'Auverquerque, 1st Earl of Grantham. He had no children by his first wife, but by his second wife was the father of:
William Henry Granville, 3rd Earl of Bath (30 January 1692 - 1711) who died of smallpox aged 19 without progeny when the earldom became extinct.
John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge (1665-1707)
Lady Jane Granville (d. 27 February 1696), wife of Sir William Leveson-Gower, 4th Baronet and mother of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Baron Gower. The progeny of this marriage were co-heirs to the 3rd Earl of Bath.
Lady Catherine Granville, wife of Craven Peyton, Member of Parliament for Boroughbridge 1705-1713. Without progeny.
Lady Grace Granville, suo jure 1st Countess Granville (3 September 1654 - 18 October 1744), wife of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret of Haynes Park, Bedfordshire, and mother of John Carteret, 2nd Baron Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville. The progeny of this marriage, Barons Carteret, Earls Granville, and Marquesses of Bath (Thynne), were co-heirs to the 3rd Earl of Bath.

He died in London in 1701.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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