Goodbye King George II
King George II died 25 Oct 1760, aged 76.. When did Virginia House of Burgesses or the Executive Council know?
As of Thursday 11 Dec 1760 which was the last day of the House session, no message of his demise was given either to the House or to the Council.
The House of Burgesses did not meet until Thursday 5 March 1761.
Lt Gov Francis Fauquier and the Council and the House of Burgesses met together in Council chambers.
You want to see what the scene looked like?
Mr Speaker, with the House, went up accordingly ; and being returned reported that he, with the House, had attended the Govemour in the Council Chamber, where his Honour Honour was pleased to make a Speech to the Council and this House, of which he had to prevent Mistakes, obtained a Copy ; which he read to the House, and then delivered in at the Table, where it was again read, and is as follows :
Lt Gov Fauquier delivered his message to a joint session of House of Burgess and the Council, being read out loud:
I should have omitted the calling you up on this your meeting according to your Adjournment, were it not incumbent on me to notify to you, now met in General Assembly, the great Loss we have sustained by the Decease of our late Sovereign, of happy and glorious Memory; a King who, by his private as well as royal Virtues, had rendered himfelf juftly dear to all his Subjects.
Deplorable indeed would our Loss have been, had we not the greatest Reason to form the most sanguine Expectations of enjoying the Blessing of Freedom, in the same full Latitude we experienced under the Grandfather, in the Person of his Successor, his present Majesty;
a Prince descended from that royal Family who have ufed the Prerogative of their Crowns with the utmost Tenderness and under whose Government the Liberty of the Subject has not suffered the least Attack, during a Term of fix and forty Years, since their first Accession to the Crown;
a Period of Happiness to Great Britain, and its Appendages, which the British Annals cannot parallel;
a Prince born among us, who has himself been a Witness of the Blessings flowing to Sovereign and Subject from a due Mixture of Liberty and Obedience;
a Prince who, from his Education, has imbibed the Strongest Notions of Virtue and true Religion; to countenance and encourage which, he has from the Throne assured us, is his fixed Purpose.
On this Authority, I can promise you a continuation of that Jufsice and Lenity which you have felt under the Government and Authority of his royal Progenitors.
The only Instance of Gratitude you can fhow for the Blessings you have fo long enjoyed under our deceased Monarch, will be your Zeal in the Service of the present; and this Consideration, with a grateful People, will, I make no Doubt, render it needless for me to recommend it further.
Our Frederick County Virginia is named after the son of King George II who should have been the next King. See why here.
Intead, Frederick's son became the next King -- King George III.
He also held title as King of France. That title to the King of Englad got dropped in 1801. See story on that.
The announcement of the death of King George II occurred upstairs on the left.
Great Williamsburg site tour:
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Compiled by Jim Moyer 11/15/2024
Table of Contents
Stories on King George II and III
Prince of Wales - the future King George III is 21 in 1759
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King George II - what's he look like in 1758?
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What's our future King George III doing in 1758?
Braddock and King George II and III - their official titles
Hallejuha - King George II stood up?
King George III Monday July 6, 1747
What was in their Title?
KING GEORGE II
King George II's full style was "George the Second, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire".[138]
KING GEORGE III
In Great Britain, King George III used the official style "George the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, and so forth". In 1801, when Great Britain united with Ireland, he dropped the title of king of France, which had been used for every English monarch since Edward III's claim to the French throne in the medieval period.[97] His style became "George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith."[131]
In Germany, he was "Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire" (Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg, Erzschatzmeister und Kurfürst des Heiligen Römischen Reiches[132]) until the end of the empire in 1806. He then continued as duke until the Congress of Vienna declared him "King of Hanover" in 1814.[131]
Why is France included?
Weren't there a lot of English Kings living in France before Edward III ?
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Anjou
30 year reign of Henry II
Peter O Toole did 2 movies of this King
Early years of the kIng fight Beckett
Later years arguing with his imprisoned wife, Katherine Hepburn, Queen of Aquitaine
One of his sons was Richard the Lion Hearted
The Angevins (from the French term meaning "from Anjou") ruled over the Angevin Empire during the 12th and 13th centuries, an area stretching from the Pyrenees to Ireland. They did not regard England as their primary home until most of their continental domains were lost by King John
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Plantagenets
50 yr reign of King Edward III
coincided with Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy in Avignon.
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he declared himself rightful heir to the French throne in 1337.
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King Henry V
1415 hero of the battle of Agincourt
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King Henry VI
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Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc[3][4]pronounced [ʒan daʁk]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431),[5] nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans
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Ending the claim on France
The French Revolution overthrew and abolished the monarchy on 21 September 1792 and replaced it with the French Republic. In the War of the First Coalition British–French negotiations were held in Lille from July to November 1797.
The French demanded dropping the title; James Harris, 1st Earl of Malmesbury was prepared to omit it from the king's signature to the envisaged peace treaty but had not conceded further by the time the talks collapsed.[4]
In the Commons' discussion of the negotiations, Sir John Sinclair called the demand "frivolous" and "hardly worth contending for";[5]
William Pitt the Younger called the title "a harmless feather, at most, in the crown of England";[6] French Laurence called it an "ancient dignity" the ceding of which would lose honour and bring disgrace.[7] In 1800, the Act of Union joined the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland to a new United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
George III chose this opportunity to drop his claim to the now defunct French throne, whereupon the fleurs de lis, part of the coat of arms of all claimant Kings of France since the time of Edward III, was also removed from the British royal arms. Britain recognised the French Republic by the Treaty of Amiens of 1802.
The change was not acknowledged by Jacobite claimant Cardinal Henry Benedict Stuart. He continued to formally style himself King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland until his death on 13 July 1807.
Although the fleurs-de-lys were completely removed from the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, they were later included in the arms of Canada, the British dominion, where they symbolise the heritage of the French Canadians, rather than the former British claim to the French throne.[8]
While the position of King of France was restored in 1814 (and later abolished for the final time in 1848) subsequent British monarchs did not pursue the claim to the French throne.
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Compiled by Jim Moyer 2019, updated 11/21/2023
House of Burgess Sessions
Before and After King George II death
1758 to 1761,
Volume 9
September 14, 1758 to April 10 , 1761
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December 12, 1759 letter from Committee of Correspondence to English Agent Edward Montague
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Colonel George Washington was elected July 24, 1758 with Thomas Bryan Martin are listed as representing Frederick County
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7th Session
page 183, October 6, 1760 to Dec 11, 1760, and then March 5, 1761 to April 10 , 1761
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King George III assumes the throne 25 Oct 1760.
This causes a new election of a new set of Burgesses, once they receive this news across the Atlantic.
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1761 to 1765,
Volume 10
November 4, 1761 to June 1, 1765
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1st Session
page 5, November 3, 1761 to November 14, 1761
George Washington was elected May 18, 1761 with his former aid de camp George Mercer to represent Frederick County VA, but this list shows George Washington was absent for the first session.
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No King Frederick?
Our Frederick County Virginia is named after the son of King George II who should have been the next King. See why here.
The answer is in here:
Frederick County VA Birthday
Posted Dec 20, 2020
More stories on Frederick County Virginia:
FREDERICK COUNTY RESOLVES 1774
Posted May 23, 2024
Dissolve Hampshire Co back into Frederick Co VA
Posted May 14, 2023
Washington's land in Frederick County
Posted Jul 30, 2016
Frederick the Great felt like as low as possible
He is not the Frederick, our Frederick County Virginia is named after
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Posted Mar 12, 2022
The Capitol Bldg in Williamsburg
Great Williamsburg site tour:
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