George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
British Army general · Politicians · Lived 1665 to 1716 · aged 50
Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II of England by Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine ; he was the fifth of Charles's eight illegitimate sons.
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Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex
Mary Tudor, Countess of Derwentwater
Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield
Barbara FitzRoy
Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Cleveland
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton
Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond
Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth
Charlotte Jemima FitzRoy
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On 1 October 1674, he was created Earl of Northumberland, Baron of Pontefract (Yorkshire) and Viscount Falmouth (Cornwall). On 6 April 1683, he was created Duke of Northumberland. He was described as "a most worthy man", and as "...a tall, Black-Man, like his father, the King." The same John Macky files described his half-sibling, Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond as Black complexion, also like his father, King Charles II.