George Villiers de Buckingham

George Villiers , born the August 28th 1592 with Leicestershire and dead the August 23rd 1628, 1st count then Duke of Buckingham to the second creation (1623) of this title, is an important English statesman. Its family is of origin Norman E.

Presentation

It was the Favori of Jacques Ier of England then of Charles I {{er}}. Endowed with all the graces of the body and the spirit, it rained in Jacques, who moved away for him his favorite Robert Carr de Somerset. It was high in less than 2 years to highest dignities: created marquis then duke in 1623, it became Prime Minister and was the dispenser of all the favors. Its capacity enabled him to grow rich, partly thanks to the weakness and with the complicity of the chancellor Francis Bacon, by establishing new taxes, by selling Privilège S; it made break several Parliaments and involved its country in disastrous wars. Sent in Spain (1623) to negotiate the marriage of the Prince de Galles (Charles Ier of England) with the Infante, it could not make succeed this project, following what it determined the king to declare the war with the Spain.

Envoy later in France, in company of the Count de Hollande, to ask for the hand of the princess Henriette de France, girl of Henri IV on behalf of king d' Angleterre, it would have courted the queen Anne of Austria, and would have been gotten rid of after being itself attracted the hatred of Louis XIII and Richelieu. He went to carry helps to the protesting S risen, was the author of the seat of Saint-Martin-of-D in 1627 against the count de Toiras; its attempts on La Rochelle and the Ile de Ré failed where it lost more 4  000 men on a force of 7  000. Whereas it prepared the one second forwarding with Portsmouth, it was assassinated by the fanatic John Felton the August 23rd 1628, which believed by this murder to serve its fatherland. Several times the Communes had asked for its distance.

Character of novel

Called “ Bouquincan ” by the French of the time, Alexandre Dumas, in the Three Musketeers , supposes it lover of the queen of France Anne of Austria, and gives him a breadth of a romantic character, suffering of an impossible love.

Interpretations with the cinema

The character of the duke of Buckingham is interpreted by:

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