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39:, and Cecilia Bayning, and was thus distantly related to Manners (whose grandmother was a Pierrepont), then known as Lord Roos and heir to the earldom of Rutland, whom she married on 15 July 1658. Their first child was a daughter, who died in early infancy. While her husband was abroad, Lady Roos went on a trip to London and came back pregnant. She is alleged to have told her husband that, regardless of who had fathered the child, if it was a boy it would one day be Earl of Rutland. The boy, when he was born, was named "Ignotus" at his baptism and sent to a foster home by Lord Roos. Lady Roos instead gave him the name "John", after the future duke, who introduced a parliamentary bill to have the child illegitimised. By the time the bill went through, in 1667, she had given birth to a second son, whom she named Charles. A third son, named Henry, was also designated a bastard. 67: 126:. A private Act of Parliament in 1667 illegitimised any children she had had since 1659 and in 1670 another Act gave him permission to remarry. Although an MP, Roos had taken little interest in Parliamentary proceedings until he began to seek support for his divorce. At some time following the divorce, Lady Roos began using the title Lady Anne Vaughan. 145:. Anne herself had Ignoto returned to her and renamed him. She then had another son by an anonymous father, and the two boys were known as John and Charles Manners. She is believed to have married someone with the surname Vaughan, possibly the same man who was injured in a duel with 121:
Lord Roos obtained a "separation from bed and board" from his wife in the ecclesiastical courts in 1666 and introduced a bill into the House of Lords to pronounce her children illegitimate, on grounds of her
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Roos married Lady Diana Bruce in 1671, and went on to have legitimate children by his third wife,
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Index

John Manners, 1st Duke of Rutland
Reformation
Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester
Parliament of England
Long title
Citation
18 & 19 Cha. 2
Royal assent
adultery
Charles II of England
House of Lords
Catherine of Braganza
duel
Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke
Catherine Wriothesley Noel


"MANNERS, John, Lord Roos (1638-1711), of Belvoir Castle, Leics"




Scandalous Liaisons: Charles II and his Court
ISBN
978-1-4456-4879-8
Athenae Oxonienses: An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who Have Had Their Education in the University of Oxford. To which are Added the Fasti, Or Annals of the Said University
Victorian Divorce
ISBN
978-1-317-26796-6
The history of Belvoir castle, from the Norman conquest to the nineteenth century

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