His son was the 4th Earl, who in 1719 was created Duke of Manchester.Ĭharles, 1st Duke of Manchester, was succeeded by his eldest son. His son, the 3rd Earl, represented Huntingdonshire in the House of Commons. His son, the 2nd Earl, was a prominent Parliamentary General during the Civil War, but later supported the restoration of Charles II. However, the form of the creation makes it clear that the title refers to what is now the city of Manchester (at the time a town in Lancashire, formally known as the County of Lancaster). It is sometimes said, erroneously, that the title refers to Godmanchester in Huntingdonshire, and that the word 'God' was deliberately excluded from the title on the basis that the grantee thought it would be blasphemous for him to be known as 'Lord Godmanchester'.

In 1626, he was made Earl of Manchester, of Manchester in the County of Lancaster.

1563–1642), who served as Lord Chief Justice as well as Lord High Treasurer and Lord Privy Seal, was in 1620 raised to the Peerage of England as Viscount Mandeville, with the additional title Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, of Kimbolton in the County of Huntingdon. He is the ancestor of the Dukes of Montagu.

The judge Sir Edward Montagu's grandson, Edward Montagu, was raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton. A case has been made out for the possibility that the Ladde alias came from a division among coheirs about 1420 of the remaining small inheritance of a line of Montagus at Spratton and Little Creton, also in Northamptonshire. His descendants claimed a connection with the older house of Montagu or Montacute, Barons Montagu or Montacute and Earls of Salisbury, but there is no sound evidence that the two families were related. Their ancestor was Richard Ladde, grandfather of the Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward, who changed his name to Montagu around 1447. He succeeded to the peerage in 2002 following the death of his father Angus Montagu, 12th Duke of Manchester, the last of the dukes to hold a seat in the House of Lords.

The current Duke is Alexander Montagu, 13th Duke of Manchester, a controversial British and Australian citizen who lives in the United States and has served several prison sentences. Manchester Parish in Jamaica was named after the 5th Duke, while its capital Mandeville was named after his son and heir. It was created in 1719 for the politician Charles Montagu, 4th Earl of Manchester. Duke of Manchester is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain, and the current senior title of the House of Montagu.

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