User:Etccerc/Lady Elizabeth Carteret

Elizabeth de Carteret, Lady Carteret (1620-1697) was Lady Proprietor of the Colony of East New Jersey and the namesake of the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Among her descendants are of Prince William of England.

Born on the manor of St. Ouen, she was the daughter Married in 1640 in the chapel of Mont Orguel Castle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCi9voNrqpE- interview with Malet de carteret

The colony of New Jersey was governed by Phillip de Carteret, a cousin of Sir George and Lady Elizabeth. Some references refer to him as a fourth cousin, but he was actually much more closely related through his mother, who was a 1st cousin of both Sir Charles and Lady Elizabeth. !st NJ was in Carolina: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sir_George_Carteret Her husband's career as courtier and Treasurer of the navy. In 1645 he was knighted, and then created a baronet 1st Baronet Carteret, of Metesches, in Jersey [E., 1645]

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Her son Sir Phillip married the daughter of the Earl of Sandwich while her grandson Lord George Carteret the daughter of the Earl of Bath. (Lady Elizabeth outlive them both). Her great grandson, the 1st Earl Grenville served as Foreign Minister in the 1740s and was the most powerful figure in the Cabinet. http://books.google.nl/books?id=zPBFaG7nIiQC&pg=PA397&dq=burial+Hawnes+George+Carteret&hl=nl#v=onepage&q=burial%20Hawnes%20George%20Carteret&f=false The Peerage of England, 1767 p. 397 Lady Eliz interred March 19, 1696. Next to her husband at Hawnes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCi9voNrqpE- Interview with Mallet de Carteret, showing portrait of Lady Carteret

Died in 1696 at Hawnes(Haynes) manor in Bedfordshire, North of London. on 2 January 1763.1 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Baron Carteret of Hawnes, co. Bedford [E., 1681] on 2 January 1763.1 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Earl Granville [G.B., 1715] on 2 January 1763.1 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Viscount Carteret [G.B., 1715] on 2 January 1763. Descendants portayed in popular culture were Lord John Carteret, in the 4th Pirates of the Caribbean, her great grandson, born at hawnes and Keira Knightley's character in the Duchess Lady Georgiana Spencer (1757–1806),daughter of Georgiana Carolina Carteret (1716–1780).