Count Elliott (also spelled Count Eliot) was a hereditary title in the

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held by the

Eliot military family The Eliot family is a British aristocratic family whose members include earls, barons, counts, knights, governors, peers, and Members of Parliament. The main factions are the Earls of St Germans and the Eliot Military Family, which encompasses ...

. The title encompassed

Count of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Count (german: Reichsgraf) was a title in the Holy Roman Empire. In the medieval era, it was used exclusively to designate the holder of an imperial county, that is, a fief held directly ( immediately) from the emperor, rather than from ...

, Comte de

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, and Graf von

Port Eliot Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises a stately home with its own church, which s ...

History

In 1735

Granville Elliott Major-General Granville Elliott, 1st Count Elliott (7 October 1713 – 10 October 1759), was a British military officer who served with distinction in several other European armies and subsequently in the British Army. He fought at the Ba ...

was set to marry Jeanne Thérèse du Han, Comtesse de Martigny and lady of honour to the Empress of Germany. Prior to their wedding

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created him Comte de

and he was made a Chamberlain to the Emperor.Marshall, John, ''Royal Naval Biography'', Volume 3, Part 2, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1832 Over time he eventually became a

.Porter, William S., ''Genealogy of the Eliot family'', George B. Bassett & Co., New Haven, 1854 Granville spent a significant amount of time attempting to prove that Richard Eliot and

Catherine Killigrew Major-General Granville Elliott, 1st Count Elliott (7 October 1713 – 10 October 1759), was a British military officer who served with distinction in several other European armies and subsequently in the British Army. He fought at the Batt ...

had married prior to the birth of their son George Elliott. If this were true, it would make Granville the rightful heir to

Sir John Eliot Sir John Eliot (11 April 1592 – 27 November 1632) was an English statesman who was serially imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he eventually died, by King Charles I for advocating the rights and privileges of Parliament. Early life Th ...

and thus

, the ancestral home of the Eliot Family and seat of the

Earl of St Germans Earl of St Germans, in the County of Cornwall, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that is held by the Eliot family. The title takes its name from the village of St Germans, Cornwall, and the family seat is Port Eliot. The earldom h ...

. Despite his attempt failing Granville was given the title Graf von Port Eliot. Upon his death in 1759 the titles where passed to his oldest living son Amable Gaspard Antoine Elliott. In 1808, after the fall of the

, the title Count of the Empire was transferred to the German Empire. Without an heir, Amable Gaspard Antoine Elliott chose his half brother

Francis Perceval Eliot Francis Perceval Eliot (September 1755 – 23 August 1818) was an English soldier, auditor, and man of letters. In 1814 he succeeded his half-brother as Count Eliot, however he did not feel it was proper to assume the title.Marshall, John, ''Ro ...

to succeed him. Francis thought being in French and German nobility would be improper and died in 1818 without assuming the titles.

List of Counts

*1735-59:

(1713-1759), 1st Count Elliott *1759-14: Amable Gaspard Antoine Elliott (1738-1814), 2nd Count Elliott *1814-18:

(1755-1818), heir to title but never assumed

References

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