Marquess of Heusden

Marquess of Heusden Markies van Heusden
Arms of the Earls of Clancarty as Marquess of Heusden.
Creation date	8 July 1815
Created by	King William I
Peerage	Dutch nobility
First holder	Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
Present holder	Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty
Heir apparent	There is no heir.
Remainder to	the 2nd Earls's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary titles	Earl of Clancarty, Viscount Dunlo, Viscount Clancarty, Baron Kilconnel, Baron Trench
Motto	Virtutis Fortuna Comes

Marquess of Heusden (Dutch: Markies van Heusden) is a high-ranking Dutch title of nobility retained by the Earl of Clancarty. ^[1]

The 2nd Earl of Clancarty, an Anglo-Irish peer, was credited with resolving various border disputes in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy at the Congress of Vienna (1814 – 1815) and in his role as Ambassador to the Netherlands. For his service as ambassador to The Hague, he was raised into the Dutch nobility with the creation of the hereditary title Markies van Heusden (Marquess of Heusden) by King Willem I of the Netherlands (royal decree 8 July 1815 no. 14).

Nobility

The 2nd Earl of Clancarty and all his descendants along the male line belong to the Dutch nobility, in which all the descendant Earls have the title of Marquess of Heusden; the remainder of the descendants carry the Dutch honorific style of Jonkheer or Jonkvrouw. ^[2]

Only two non-Dutch lineages living outside of the Netherlands have been raised into the Dutch nobility: the Le Poer Trench family and the Wellesley family, with the Duke of Wellington as the Prince of Waterloo.

Marquesse of Heusden (1815)

• Richard Le Poer Trench, 1st Marquess of Heusden (1767–1837) since 1815
• William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 2nd Marquess of Heusden (1803–1872) since 1837
• Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, 3rd Marquess of Heusden (1834–1891) since 1872
• William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 4th Marquess of Heusden (1868–1929) since 1891
• Richard Frederick John Donough Le Poer Trench, 5th Marquess of Heusden (1891–1971) since 1929
• Greville Sydney Rocheforte Le Poer Trench, 6th Marquess of Heusden (1902–1975) since 1971
• (William Francis) Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 7th Marquess of Heusden (1911–1995) since 1975
• Nicholas Power Richard Le Poer Trench, 8th Marquess of Heusden (b. 1952) since 1995

There is no heir to the marquessate.

References

1. Wet op de Adeldom, 10 mei 1994. Hoge Raad Van Adel, Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. Artikel 1, Adeldom wordt verleend bij koninklijk besluit. De verlening kan uitsluitend geschieden aan Nederlanders. Alleen bij de verleningen aan de hertog van Wellington en de graaf van Clancarty van de titels prins van Waterloo resp. markies van Heusden (K.B.’s van 8 juli 1815, nrs. 13 en 14) is hiervan in het verleden afgeweken. Overigens verliezen personen met een buitenlandse nationaliteit, die tot de Nederlandse adel behoren, hun adeldom niet.
2. [Nederland's Adelsboek 95 (Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie, 2010) pp. 306-322]

External links

• Location of the fortified City of Heusden on the River Maas in North Brabant, Netherlands - website Google Maps

The 2nd Earl of Clancarty,
1st Marquess of Heusden