George Villiers (died 1606)

Family

Career

Marriages and issue

• Sir William Villiers, eldest son, who married Rebecca Roper, daughter and co-heir of Robert Roper, esquire, and Elizabeth Nott, the daughter of William Nott, esquire, of Thames Ditton. He was created a baronet in 1619.
• Sir Edward Villiers, who married, about 1612, Barbara St. John, daughter of Sir John St John of Lydiard Tregoze, Wiltshire, by whom he had ten children.
• Elizabeth Villiers, who married John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield.
• Anne Villiers, who married Sir William Washington, elder brother of Lawrence Washington. She was the mother of Henry Washington and the maternal grandmother of George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth, ancestor of the Earls of Dartmouth.
• Frances Villiers, who died without issue.

• John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, who married Frances, the daughter of Sir Edward Coke by his second wife, Elizabeth Hatton, nee Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter. The peerage expired at his death.
• George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, who married Katherine Manners,. The title became extinct in 1687.
• Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey. The earldom and barony became extinct on the death of his son, the second Earl of Anglesey, in 1661.
• Susan Villiers, who married William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, parents-in-law to James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton.

  Common ancestor of sixteen British Prime Ministers