User:TaylorEarlOfBriggs

I am Taylor IV, Esquire, and soon to be inheritor of the title "The Earl of Briggs". The Briggs Estate was originally a Catholic Monastery constructed in the early 10th century in southwestern Kent. It was given to the Duke of Gloucester as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII who then passed it on to his second son, Edward after he died. His only daughter, Catherine, married William, of unknown illegitimate parentage, and to formalize the marriage, William took on the title "Briggs". Their great-grandson William VI earned the title "Earl" for showing outstanding loyalty to the crown. I am the last known male in the Briggs family line.