It was created in 1951 for the prominent military commander Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg.
His widow later married Bernard Freyberg.
At the end of 1945, the New Zealand troops under the command of the General Freyberg entered Trieste and settled in the castle, making many changes to the interior.
George Bernard Shaw | Baron | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard of Clairvaux | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | baron | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Bernard Madoff | Sacha Baron Cohen | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Joey Baron | Bernard-Henri Lévy | Bernard Haitink | Bernard Berenson | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Bernard Hopkins | Bernard Cornwell | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester |
XIII Corps comprised 4th Indian Infantry Division (commanded by Major-General Frank Messervy), the newly arrived 2nd New Zealand Division (commanded by Major-General Bernard Freyberg) and the 1st Army Tank Brigade.