Earl of Castlehaven was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created on 6 September 1616. It was held in conjunction with the Barony of Audley, the Barony of Audley of Orier, and the Barony of Audley of Hely.
George Tuchet, 1st Earl of Castlehaven, was the son of Henry Tuchet, 10th Baron Audley and his wife, née Elizabeth Sneyd.
Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, was an English nobleman who was convicted of rape and sodomy and subsequently executed. He is the only member of parliament to be executed for a non-political crime.
James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven was the son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven and his first wife, Elizabeth Barnham. Castlehaven played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms that took place in the middle of the 17th century, and was particularly active in the conflicts in Ireland at this time.
Mervyn Tuchet, 4th Earl of Castlehaven was the third son of Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, and his first wife, Elizabeth Barnham. He succeeded his brother James Tuchet as Earl of Castlehaven on 11 October 1684. He also held the subsidiary titles 14th Baron Audley and 2nd Baron Audley of Hely.
James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven was the son of James Tuchet, 5th Earl of Castlehaven and his wife Anne Pelson.
James Tuchet, 7th Earl of Castlehaven was the son of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven and his wife, née Elizabeth Arundell.
John Talbot Tuchet, 8th Earl of Castlehaven was the son of James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven, and his wife, née Elizabeth Arundell. He succeeded his brother as Earl of Castlehaven and Baron Audley on 6 May 1769.
Baron Audley is a title in the Peerage of England first created in 1313, by writ to the Parliament of England, for Sir Nicholas Audley of Heighley Castle, a member of the Anglo-Norman Audley family of Staffordshire.
Earl of Cromartie is a title that has been created twice, both for members of the Mackenzie family. It was first created as Earl of Cromarty in the Peerage of Scotland in 1703 for Sir George Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet, but his titles were forfeited after the Jacobite rising of 1745. It was recreated in 1861 in the Peerage of the United Kingdom for Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland. Since 1979, the Earl of Cromartie has been chief of Clan Mackenzie.
George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos (1620–1654), was the son of Grey Brydges, 5th Baron Chandos and Lady Anne Stanley, a descendant of King Henry VIII's sister, Princess Mary Tudor. George's stepfather was Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven. In 1621, George succeeded his father as Baron Chandos, being only just one years of age.
George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley was an English peer.
John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, 10th Earl of Waterford, was an English nobleman.
British history provides several opportunities for alternative claimants to the English and later British Crown to arise, and historical scholars have on occasion traced to present times the heirs of those alternative claims.
Tuchet is a surname, and may refer to:
Thomas Savile, 1st Earl of Sussex was an English politician.
Alice Spencer, Countess of Derby was an English noblewoman from the Spencer family and noted patron of the arts. Poet Edmund Spenser represented her as "Amaryllis" in his eclogue Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595) and dedicated his poem The Teares of the Muses (1591) to her.
Henry Tuchet, 10th Baron Audley, 7th Baron Tuchet was an English peer.
John Tuchet, 6th Baron Audley, 3rd Baron Tuchet was an English politician.
Richard Butler of Kilcash (1615–1701) was an Irish soldier and landowner, the third son of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles and brother of James, 1st Duke of Ormonde. He sided with the Irish Confederacy at the Irish Rebellion of 1641. He scouted the enemy on the morning of the Battle of Cloughleagh. His descendants would succeed to the earldom of Ormond following the failure in 1758 of the senior branch of the family.
