The title of Marquess of Carisbrooke

Carisbrooke

Carisbrooke is a village on the south western outskirts of Newport, Isle of Wight. It is best known as the site of Carisbrooke Castle. It also has a medieval parish church. St. Mary's Church , began life as part of a Benedictine priory, established by French monks about 1150...

was created in the Peerage

Peerage

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 of the United Kingdom

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 in 1917 for Prince Alexander of Battenberg

Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke

Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, GCB, GCVO, GJStJ was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria...

, eldest son of Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (youngest daughter of Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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) and Prince Henry of Battenberg

Prince Henry of Battenberg

Colonel Prince Henry of Battenberg was a morganatic descendant of the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, later becoming a member of the British Royal Family, through his marriage to Princess Beatrice.-Early life:...

. Along with other German-surnamed relations of the British royal family, Alexander also changed his surname at this time, to Mountbatten. The title became extinct upon the 1st Marquess's death in 1960, as he did not produce a male heir.

The Marquess held the subsidiary titles Earl of Berkhampsted and Viscount Launceston, in the County of Cornwall

Cornwall

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.

Carisbrooke Castle

Carisbrooke Castle

Carisbrooke Castle is a historic motte-and-bailey castle located in the village of Carisbrooke, near Newport, Isle of Wight, England. Charles I was imprisoned at the castle in the months prior to his trial.-Early history:...

 was the residence of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice as Governor of the Isle of Wight. The title of Marquess of Berkhampstead had previously been conferred with the Dukedom of Cumberland

Duke of Cumberland

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 on Prince William Augustus

Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

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, son of King George II

George II of Great Britain

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, in 1726. The title of Viscount Launceston

Viscount Launceston

The peerage title of Viscount Launceston, named for Launceston in Cornwall, has been twice created, each time for an individual connected with the British Royal Family....

 had previously been conferred with the Dukedom of Edinburgh

Duke of Edinburgh

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 on Prince Frederick Lewis

Frederick, Prince of Wales

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, later Prince of Wales

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, also in 1726.

Marquesses of Carisbrooke (1917)

• Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
  Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
  Alexander Albert Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, GCB, GCVO, GJStJ was a member of the Hessian princely Battenberg family and the extended British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria...
  
  (1886–1960)