Armorial bindings; Bookplates, English; Heraldry -- Great Britain
John Carteret (born 12th April 1690, died 2nd January 1763)
succeeded his father as second Baron Carteret in 1695, and in
1744 became Earl Granville on the death of his mother, Countess
Granville, whose Earldom was created January 1, 1714. Lord
Granville was a Lord of the Bedchamber to George I., and in
1716 Lord Lieutenant and Curtos Rotulorum of Devonshire. In
1719 he was Ambassador to Sweden.
In 1721 Lord Granville was Secretary of State, and three years
later Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He was also a Knight of the
Garter. In 1710 he married Frances, daughter of Sir Robert
Worsley, Bart., of Appledurcombe, in the Isle of Wight.
[Illustration]
CATHERINE OF ARAGON, QUEEN CONSORT OF HENRY VIII.
_Arms._--Impaled.
Dexter: Quarterly.
1st and 4th, France. 2nd and 3rd, England. All as used by
Henry VIII. (q.v.).
Sinister: Quartered.
1st and 4th grand quarters, quarterly.
1 and 4. Gu., a castle or. _Castile._
2 and 3. Arg., a lion rampant gu. _Leon._
2nd and 3rd grand quarters, per pale.
Dexter: Or, paly of 4 gu. _Aragon._
Sinister: Per saltire arg., 2 eagles displayed sa. and or, paly
of 4 gu. _Sicily._
In the base point, arg., a pomegranate or. _Grenada._
Ensigned with a Royal Crown and supported by two angels.
[HOLKOT. _Opus revera insignissimum in librum Sapietie
Salomonis editum._ Parisius, 1518.]
Catherine of Aragon (born 15th December 1485, died 6th January
1536) was the youngest daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of
Spain, and in 1501 she married Arthur, Prince of Wales, who
died in 1502.
In 1509, Catherine married Henry VIII., and they had several
children, of whom only Mary, afterwards Queen, survived her
infancy. Henry VIII. divorced Queen Catherine in 1533, on the
plea that the marriage was illegal as she was his brother's
widow, and in the same year he married Anne Bullen, who was one
of the Queen's Maids of Honour.
Queen Catherine died at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire,
in 1536, and was buried at Peterborough. A few of her books
came with the old Royal Library to the British Museum in 1757.
She was fond of literature and a patron to learning of all
sorts, and a friend of Erasmus. She appointed Ludovicus Vives,
a well-known Spanish savant and author, to be tutor to her
daughter Mary.
[Illustration]
CATHERINE OF BRAGANZA, QUEEN CONSORT OF CHARLES II.
_Arms._--Arg., 5 shields az., 1, 3, and 1, each charged with 5 plates,
2, 1, and 2; a bordure of Castile, gu., 7 towers or, 3, 2, and 2.
_Portugal._
_Crown._--The Royal Crown of England.
[_Jesus Maria Joseph; or, The devout Pilgrim of the Virgin
Mary._ Amsterdam, 1663.]
[Edward Almack, Esq., F.S.A., Brighton.]
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