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unusual facts about baronies



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Baron Bardolf

The (historical) barony of Lovel had been forfeit since the attainder of Francis Lovel, 1st Viscount Lovel, son of Joan Lady Lovel abovementioned, in 1485, and any right to it was vested in the same co-heirs as the baronies of Beaumont and Bardolf, descendants of Lovel's sisters.

Baron Conyers

The abeyance after the death of the 3rd baron was terminated for the 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth, these baronies were held together until the abeyance of 1888, after which the abeyance of these two baronies were separately terminated.

Since 1509, the Barons Conyers had held a part of the "right" to the barony Fauconberg, i.e. the part for which the abeyance was terminated in 1903; and since the termination of the abeyance of the barony Fauconberg, the two baronies, Conyers and Fauconberg, had been held together; from 1948 they were abeyant between the two daughters of the 5th Earl of Yarborough.

Baron Gerard

There have been three baronies created for descendants of the Gerard family who resided at Bryn, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire and Kingsley, Cheshire, in the 13th century.

Baron Harington

On the death of the 5th baron in 1458, the barony was inherited by the heir to the barony of Bonville, with which title it merged in 1461, until both baronies were forfeited in 1554.

Baron Sheffield

On the death in 1909 of the 3rd Earl of Sheffield, his earldom, the Pevensey viscountcy and the Sheffield baronies of 1781 and 1802 became extinct.

Château du Tournel

A former seat of the Barons of Tournel, one of the eight baronies of Gévaudan, it was destroyed during the French Wars of Religion by Huguenot troops under Matthieu Merle.

Clan Crichton

One of the earliest baronies around Edinburgh was formed from the lands of Kreitton and is mentioned in charters of the early 12th century.

Corcomroe

These became the English administrative baronies of Corcomroe and Burren in the late 16th century.

Fondo Protonotaro

Fondo Protonotaro is a collection of documents at the state Archive of Palermo, in which are registered, among other records, all the acts pertaining to baronies and other feudal properties in Sicily before the abolition of feudalism in 1812.

John de Soules

Sir John de Soulis II joined Robert the Bruce, and was rewarded with a grant of the baronies of Kirkandrews and Torthorwald, and the lands of Brettalach, Dumfriesshire.

Magherastephana

The closest parallels to other gaelicised Norman names in baronies would be Bharóideach (Barretts) and Choistealach (Costello).

Muskerry GAA

Its name is derived from the ancient Gaelic kingdom of Múscraige which, following the Norman conquest, now encompasses the baronies of Muskerry West and Muskerry East.

Oneilland West

Clonfeacle (split with baronies of Armagh and Dungannon Middle)

Richard Barnewall

The Baronies of Trimlestown and Kingsland were held by various members of his family.

Sackville Pelham, 5th Earl of Yarborough

In 1926, Lord Worsley became a major in the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry and on the death of his mother that year, inherited the baronies of Conyers and Fauconberg and the Portuguese countship of Mértola.

Walter de Riddlesford

Walter de Riddlesford (birth date unknown –1226) was an Anglo-Norman lord granted in Ireland the baronies of Bray, County Wicklow and Kilkea, County Kildare between 1171 and 1176.

William Maule

William Maule of Panmure, successor to the baronies of Panmure and Benvie in 1348

Sir William Maule, successor to the baronies of Panmure and Benvie in 1254


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