Countess Adelhida Paleotti Talbot, Duchess of Shrewsbury

• Adelhida Palliotti
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• Adelhida Palliotti is the daughter of unknown Palliotti, Marchese di Palliotti. She married Charles Talbot, 1st and last Duke of Shrewsbury, son of Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and Lady Anna Maria Brudenell.
• Her married name became Talbot.
• From: http://thepeerage.com/p1236.htm#i12359 ___________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 55
• Talbot, Charles (1660-1718) by Adolphus William Ward
• TALBOT, CHARLES, twelfth Earl and only Duke of Shrewsbury (1660–1718), was born on 24 July 1660, and was named after Charles II, being the first of that sovereign’s godchildren after the Restoration (Collins). His parents were Francis, eleventh earl of Shrewsbury, and his notorious second wife, Anna Maria, daughter of Robert, lord Brudenell, afterwards second earl of Cardigan. Her amour with George Villiers, second duke of Buckingham [q. v.], which had begun six years previously (see Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, ed. Cartwright, 1875, p. 67), cost her husband his life. He died on 17 Jan. 1668 of a wound received in a duel with Buckingham, during which she was said, attired as a page, to have held the horse of her lover (see Grammont and Pepys). She continued for some time to live with Buckingham (cf. Evelyn, Diary, ed. Wheatley, ii. 271), but afterwards married George Rodney Bridges, and survived till 1702 (see Wheatley's note in his edition of Pepys's Diary, vii. 284; portraits of her are in the National Portrait Gallery and at Goodwood; a third, as Minerva, was bought by Sir Robert Peel at the Stowe sale; ib.). .....
• In 1705 Shrewsbury proceeded via Venice to Augsburg, where on 25 Aug. he, to the disconcertment of his English friends, married Adelhida, daughter of the Marquis Palleotti of Bologna, who is said on the mother's side to have claimed descent from Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. She is stated to have abjured the faith of Rome before her marriage (Correspondence, p. 657). A cloud rests on her antecedents, possibly due to a prejudice from which she never contrived to escape; for she was certainly ignorant and flighty, and, according to insular notions, ill-bred, although Dartmouth may have gone too far in describing her as ‘the constant plague of’ her husband's ‘life, and the real cause of his death’ (note to Burnet, v. 453). In the latter half of Queen Anne's reign she played a conspicuous part in English society, provoking, however, much ridicule by a simplicity which seems to have been not wholly unassumed (see Wentworth Papers, pp. 213, 263), and some scandal by her Italian method of proclaiming her preferences (ib. p. 283). But her most signal social triumph dates from the beginning of the reign of George I, with whom she found so much favour that the town ill-naturedly said ‘she rivalled Madame Killmansack’ (ib. p. 439). To this period belongs the unflattering portrait of her in Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu's ‘Town Eclogue’ of ‘Roxana, or the Drawing Room’ (1715) (Letters and Works, ed. Wharncliffe, ii. 434):
• [For Shrewsbury's career from the revolution to the close of the century the chief authority is the Private and Original Correspondence of Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, with King William, leaders of the Whig Party, &c., by Archdeacon Coxe, 1821 (it is here cited as ‘Correspondence’). This collection includes a few of the letters addressed to Shrewsbury by James Vernon, secretary of state, and published under the title of ‘Letters illustrative of the Reign of William III,’ from 1696 to 1708, by the late G. P. R. James, 3 vols. 1841. An anonymous Life of Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, was published in 1718, on which Collins appears to have largely founded his biographical sketch in vol. iii. of the Peerage of England (5th edit. 1779). See also Doyle's Official Baronage, vol. iii. and G. E. C[okayne]'s Complete Peerage.] A. W. W.
• From: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Talbot,_Charles_(1660-1718)_(DNB00) ____________
• Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC (24 July 1660 – 1 February 1718) was an English statesman. Born to Roman Catholic parents, he remained in that faith until 1679 when—during the time of the Popish Plot and following the advice of the divine John Tillotson—he converted to the Church of England.[1] Shrewsbury took his seat in the House of Lords in 1680 and three years later was appointed Gentleman-Extraordinary of the Bedchamber, suggesting he was in favour at the court of Charles II.[1] ....
• In 1705 Shrewsbury married Adelaide Roffeni, daughter of the Marquis Andrea Paleotti and Christina Dudley Paleotti of Bologna. This lady, who is said to have had "a great many engaging qualities" besides many accomplishments, was the subject of much malicious gossip. She was the widow, or as some declared, the mistress of a Count Brachiano; and Lady Cowper reported that the lady's brother had forced Shrewsbury to marry her "after an intrigue together". After Shrewsbury's return to England the duchess became conspicuous in London society, where the caustic wit of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was exercised at her expense. During the Paris embassy she became extremely popular, due to her hospitality and lively conversation. The Duc de Saint-Simon thought that her eccentricity bordered on madness, but did praise the simple, practical hairstyle which she made fashionable. On the accession of George I the duchess of Shrewsbury became a lady of the bedchamber to the Princess of Wales, a position which she retained till her death on 29 June 1726. Shrewsbury left no children, and at his death the dukedom became extinct, the earldom of Shrewsbury passing to his cousin Gilbert Talbot.
• See also
• William Chaloner
• List of deserters from James II to William of Orange
• Notes
• 1.^ a b c d e f g Stuart Handley, ‘Talbot, Charles, duke of Shrewsbury (1660–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 30 Jan 2011.
• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
• References
• [Anon.] (1800). "Observations upon the Political Character of Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, &c". The European Magazine, and London Review 37: 120–124.
• Stuart Handley, ‘Talbot, Charles, duke of Shrewsbury (1660–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, accessed 30 Jan 2011.
• Dorothy H. Somerville, The King of Hearts. Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1962).
• Further reading
• W. Coxe (ed.), Private and Original Correspondence of Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury (1821).
• Edward Gregg, Queen Anne (1980).
• Henry Horwitz, Parliament, Policy and Politics in the Reign of William III (1977).
• G. P. R. James, Letters Illustrative of the Reign of William III from 1696 to 1708 addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury by James Vernon, 3 vols. (1841).
• T. C. Nicholson and A. S. Turberville, Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury (1930).
• Daniel Szechi, ‘The Duke of Shrewsbury's contacts with the Jacobites in 1713’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 56 (1983), pp. 229–32.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Talbot,_1st_Duke_of_Shrewsbury ______________
• Charles [Talbot], 12th Earl of Shrewsbury later 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG PC
• 1st son and heir of Francis [Talbot], 11th Earl of Shrewsbury, by his second wife Lady Anna Maria Brudenell, dau. by his second wife of Robert [Brudenell], 2nd Earl of Cardigan
• born 24 Jul 1660
• mar. 20 Aug 1705 Adelaide Paleotti, Lady of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales 1714-26 (d. 29 Jun 1726), dau. of Andrew, Marquis Paleotti, of Bologna, by his second wife Maria Cristina Dudley, 5th dau. of Carlo Dudley, titular Duke of Northumberland
• died s.p. 1 Feb 1717/8
• created 30 Apr 1694 Marquess of Alton and Duke of Shrewsbury
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/Shrewsbury1694.htm ________________
• Private and original correspondence ... with king William, the leaders of ... By Charles Talbot, Charles Talbot (duke of Shrewsbury.)
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• While the attention of all parties was thus directed to the movements of the duke of Shrewsbury, he had quitted Venice, and, taking the route of Germany, repaired to Augsburgh. Here he was joined by Adelaide, marchioness of Paleotti, an italian widow of high rank, with whom he had long lived in habits of intimacy, at Rome. Having consulted the magistrates of the city, on his intention of espousing her, she made a formal declaration of her religious sentiments, before one of the principal senators. On the 20th of August, the ensuing day, after a solemn abjuration of the roman catholic religion, before the Lutheran minister, they were privately married in the presence of two of the patricians, and their respective retinues.* He communicated the intelligence to the duke of Marborough, in a letter, which is not extant, but to which he received the following reply:-- .... ______________________
• The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 89
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• .... In confequence of this event, the furniture at Easfton Mauduit was fold by auction by Mr. Smith, of Kimbolton, April 6 and following days. Among the reft, the family pictures and other portraits, as follow.
• Charles duke of Shrewfbury, three-quarters.--- He was the firft and only duke of Shrewfbury, and died 171701718, having married Adelhida, daughter of the Marquis Paleotti, and widow of a Swedifh count (who previoufly abjured Popery), and purchafed Heythorp, co. Oxford, ftill the family-feat. _________
• Warwick Castle and Its Earls Part One By Frances Warwick
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  • The House of Dudley
• .... the title. One of his daughters, Christine, married the marchese Paleotti, and had two children: a son, who was hanged at Tyburn for the murder of his valet: and a daughter, who married Charles Talbot, Duke of Shrewsbury, and was one of the beauties at the court of George I. _________________
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