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  List of Baronies
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  Baron - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Thus far the baron's position was connected with the tenure of land; in theory the barons were those who held their lands of the king; in practice, they were those who so held a large amount of land.
Baron and Feme, in heraldry, is the term used when the coatsof-arms of a man and his wife are borne per pale in the same escutcheon, the man's being always on the dexter side, and the woman's on the sinister.
Though in Latin documents of the middle ages the term barones for liberi domini was used, it was not until the 17th century that the word Baron, perhaps under the influence of the court of Versailles, began to be used as the equivalent of the old German Freiherr, or free lord of the Empire.
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 BARON - Online Information article about BARON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Thus was introduced a definite distinction, which eventually had the effect of restricting to the greater barons the rights and privileges of peerage.
land; in theory the barons were those who held their lands of the king; in practice, they were those who so held a large amount of land.
instrument the title of baron was to be borne ex officio by a number of high officials, e.g.
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 General history: Nobility of the county | British History Online
Sir James Lowther was in 1784, created Baron Lowther, of Lowther, Baron of Kendal, baron of the barony of Burgh, in the county of Cumberland, Viscount Lonsdale and Lowther, and Earl of Lonsdale.
 Baron Dacre of the South.—Ranulph de Dacre, who married the heiress of Multon, of Gilsland, was summoned to parliament in the first year of Edward II.
John de Greystock, whose ancestors had long possessed the barony of Greystock, was summoned to parliament 23 Edward I. Ralph, the last Lord Greystock, of this family, died in 1487; his grand-daughter and sole heiress, Elizabeth Greystock, married Thomas, Lord Dacre.
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 Parishes: Edenhall - Grinsdale | British History Online
 John de Greystock, who was summoned to parliament as a baron in the reign of Edward I. died without issue, and left his estates to Ralph de Grimsthorpe, son of Joan, aunt to the said John; Ralph, Lord of Grimsthorpe and Greystock, was summoned to parliament in the reign of Edward II.
 Greystock Castle, which had been garrisoned for the King in 1648, was taken by a detachment of General Lambert's army in the month of June.
 In the parish church are monuments of some of the barons of Greystock, and a gravestone of Dr. John Whelpdale, master of the college, 1526.
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 Untitled
Lyulph, whose ancestors are completely unknown, is ancestor to eight generations of feudal Barons of Greystock, before the ninth generation, in Ralph, is summoned to Parliament as a baron by writ in 1295.
The difference between the baron by writ, or patent, and the honorial baron, or baron by tenure was that the latter would not expect to sit in the councils of the realm unless summoned beyond the reign of Henry III; the former can now sit in the House of Lords as of right.
The word Baron is used by historians and writers today in a way that it is safe to assume that the author is thinking of a tenant-in-chief of the King.
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 Heraldry - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sometimes the lord himself set forth such arms in a formal grant, as when the baron of Greystock grants to Adam of Blencowe a shield in which his own three chaplets are charges.
The Whitgreave family of Staffordshire still show a shield granted to their ancestor in 1442 by the earl of Stafford, in which the Stafford red cheveron on a golden field is four times repeated.
Of the long roll of earls and barons sealing the famous letter to the pope in 1301 only five show true crests on their seals.
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 Ancestors of Robert Erwin William Juch - aqwg105
Robert de Toeni Baron of Belvoir was born 1014 in St. Saveur, Normandy, France.
Robert de Toeni Baron of Belvoir was born 1014 and died 4 Aug 1088.
The barons were as indignant as astounded at this unwarrantable declaration.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sometimes the lord himself set forth such arms in a formal grant, as when the baron of Greystock grants to Adam of Blencowe a shield in which his own three chaplets are charges.
Of the long roll of earls and barons sealing the famous letter to the pope in 1301 only five show true crests on their seals.
In three of these instances the crest is borne, as was often the case, by the horse as well as the rider.
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 Kimball - pafg78 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Robert, of Westmoreland CLIFFORD [Baron] was born on 5 Nov 1305 in Clifford Castle, Skipton, Westmorland, England.
Isabel married Robert, of Westmoreland CLIFFORD [Baron] on 2 Jun 1328 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucester, England.
Henry de PERCY [Baron Percy] was born in 1321/1322 in of Alnwick Castl, Alnwick, Northumberland, England and was christened in (30+-1351/1352).
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 The Greystoke/Grebson Lineage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 1st Baron at this time changed the arms on his shield because, it is said, of a desire to impress his neighbors with his devotion to Christianity, a brother and sister having been burned for witchcraft.
The 3rd Baron being slain during an encounter with the officers of Edward I in 1280, his son assumed the lordship of Grebson.
The 5th Baron's wife disappeared during a visit to her father in 1340, it being presumed that bandits had murdered her and bur.
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 Baron Greystock Information
The title Baron Greystock (or Greystoke) has been created twice in the Peerage of England.
It was first created when John de Greystock was summoned to parliament in 1295 and it became extinct on his death.
It was next created for Sir Ralph de Greystock in 1321, and went into abeyance in 1569, after passing into the Dacre family.
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 Robert Ferrers (1373-1396) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Upon the death of his father in December 1380, he became Baron Boteler of Wem jure matris.
Robert De Ferrers married Joan Beaufort in 1391 at Beaufort Castle, Anjou.
She married John de Greystock, 4th Baron Greystock (1389–1436) on October 28, 1407 in Greystock, Cumberland and had issue.
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 Baron Grey at AllExperts
* Baron Grey of Howick is one of the subsidiary titles of the Earl Grey, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
* Baron Grey of Groby was a subsidiary title of the Earl of Stamford in the Peerage of England.
* Baron Grey of Naunton is an extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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 The Wold Newton Universe - Articles by Philip José Farmer
My own theory is that he may have been a duke, a marquess, earl, baron, or baronet (a baronet is not a noble but a sort of hereditary knight), or any combination of these.
The Honourable indicates that she was the daughter of a baron or a viscount, though ERB does not tell us what the title of her father was.
The Earl of Carlisle, the Baron of Petre, and the Baron of Mow bray, Segrave, and Stourton are co-heirs.
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 Magna Charta Barons At Runnymede Home Page
This is the beginning of a project to provide profiles and biographical information about the Barons who were at Runnymede in June, 1215 in support of the Charter.
The 25 Surety Barons, listed in the Magna Charta, of whom 17 have left issue who survived, have received considerable genealogical attention so that the focus of the information on their pages will be biographical and historical.
Since most of the members of the Society are descended from the Surety Barons and not these additional Barons, we have encouraged our members to undertake additional research to establish that these additional Barons were at Runnymede and to provide information concerning each.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
The Barony belongs to the Dukedom of Richmond and is held by the Duke of Richmond and Lennox.
Held by the Duke of Argyll in the Peerage of Scotland and of the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Also Baron Carrington in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Carington of Upton for Life in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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 Peterson Family - pafg364 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Jane (Greystock) GREYSTOKE [Parents] was born about 1410 in of, Owesley, Yorkshire, England.
William WILLOUGHBY [Baron Willoughb [Parents] was born in 1370/1375 in of, Eresby, Lincolnshire, England.
Robert WILLOUGHBY [Baron Willoughb was born in 1343 in of, Eresby, England.
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 Henry the Fourth
In a great council, however, of the temporal and spiritual peers, the former agreed to contribute a tenth of their incomes, and the latter promised to serve with a specified number of retainers, for a limited period, at their own cost.
Amongst the latter were the regent’s son, the Earls of Moray and Angus, two barons, a multitude of knights and gentlemen, and Douglas himself, who had fallen from his horse, pierced with six wounds.
The king next retook the town of Berwick, put to death the baron of Greystock, with his principal officers, and having made himself master of three other castles, returned in triumph to the south.
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 St Helen's Church 1
It is mentioned in the will of William, Baron of Greystock who died in 1289 and who had married Mary de Merley in 1254.
Lord Robert Greystock held in the day of his death in 1317 - the advowson of the church - in his demesne as of fee and profits of the vicarage of it in time of peace was worth £20 per annum.
The appropriation of the benefice was not confirmed until 1391, when Bishop Skirlaws of Durham ordered that the church should be served by a vicar, presented by themselves, being a Canon in their own house.
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 de Greystock, Baron Greystock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
William de Greystock, 4th Baron Greystock, born 1321,
Ralph de Greystock, 5th Baron Greystock, mar Catherine Clifford [descendant of Charlemagne and of Aoife Mac Murrough] and had issue:
Maude de Greystock, mar Eudo de Welles and had issue.
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 A Short History
The site originally belonged to Richard II and was sold by him to Ralph Baron of Greystock in 1385 for the sum of forty marks.
Baron Greystock then gave it to the Priory of Brinkburn
The village school, then situated towards the west of the village, was given a donation of £100 by Mrs Anne Ogle towards the education of poor children of the parish.
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 Magna Charta Barons At Runnymede Home Page
This is the beginning of a project to provide profiles and biographical information about the Barons who were at Runnymede in June, 1215 in support of the Charter.
The 25 Surety Barons, listed in the Magna Charta, of whom 17 have left issue who survived, have received considerable genealogical attention so that the focus of the information on their pages will be biographical and historical.
Since most of the members of the Society are descended from the Surety Barons and not these additional Barons, we have encouraged our members to undertake additional research to establish that these additional Barons were at Runnymede and to provide information concerning each.
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 The town of Wem
I should be glad if I could give an account of the revolutions it has undergone in the barons' wars, when without doubt it had its share in the calamities of those trouble some times; and in the wars between the houses of York and Lancaster, especially in the reign of Henry VI.
On the west side is another statue of a woman, with a cross in her left hand, and the model of the church in her right.
The first figure I believe represents Ralph, lord Greystock, baron of Wem, who probably was at the charge of building the steeple, and the other may be his lady, who might promote so good a work.
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 ADAM DE BLENCOWE
for having acquired in fee from William de Greystock without license 22 messuages, 24 acres of land, a mill, four carucates, another 60 acres of land and 10 of meadow, plus 15 shillings in rent, in Newbigging and Blencowe, and from Gilbert de Suthayk two messuages, 24 acres of land and 10 meadow in Skelton.
In an Inquisition held in consequence of the death of William Lord Greystock in 1359, it was revealed that
In county Cumberland the two leading barons were also commissioned justices; Ralph de Greystock, son of William, and Roger de Clifford.
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 The Scots and English each invade the other country
Not long afterwards, the earl of Douglas and the other Scots barons carried the admiral of France to a high mountain, at the bottom of which was a pass through which the English would be forced to march with their baggage.
The Scots barons marched hastily through their own country; and the king, not being well enough in health to accompany them, retired into the highlands, where he remained during the war, and left his subjects to act as well as they could.
They entered Westmoreland, passing through the lands of Greystock, and of the baron Clifford, and burnt on their march several large villages where no men at arms had before been.
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 The Greystoke Lineage
Whereupon, His Majesty did graciously condescend, by a letter patent, dated 10 April 1685 at Westminster, to restore and confirm to the said John Charles Conyers and the heirs of his body the barony (but not the earldom because of the limitations of the patent), and he had summons to Parliament accordingly.
Fitzwilliam and Greystock: "Barry" means the field is divided into a stipulated equal number of equal number of equal-sized horizontal sections.
It was colored so in honor of the son of the Outlaw of Torn, himself an outlaw and called, in folk legend, the "Green Archer" or the "Green Baron." The lion skin was added by the present duke in commemoration of Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion.
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 34th Generation (cont.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Phorne FitzSigulf, Baron of Greystock "Forne" was born circa 1050 in Nunburholme, Yorkshire County, England.
BIOGRAPHY: King Henry I confirmed the Barony of Greystock unto Phorne, son of the Lyulphe, whose posterity took their surname from the place, and were called de Greystock.
In 1122, he was created Earl of Gloucester, and in 1123, he led a force to assist in the capture of the castle of Brionne, which was held by rebel Norman barons.
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 A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY by JAMES PARKER
The canton is sometimes the only charge in a coat; but generally it is supposed to be an augmentation of the original arms, or a difference.
The most authentic instance of a delineation of this charge is perhaps found on Lord de la Roche's seal.
Gules, three roach naiant in pale argent--Seal of Thomas Lord DE LA ROCHE affixed to the Barons' letter to Pope Boniface VIII., 1301.
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 RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest
without issue in 1305, when he settled his manor and barony of Greystock upon his cousin, Ralph, son of William Fitz-Ralph, Lord of Grimthorpe, in Yorkshire, husband of the baron's aunt, Joane; his brothers and uncles being then all dead, without male issue.
This nobleman was much engaged in the wars of Scotland, and in the 7th Edward II [1384], we find him governor of Berwick, and joined in commission with John, Lord Mowbray, and others, in the wardenship of the marches.
He was the next year governor of Carlisle, and founded a chantry at Tinemouth for the soul of John, Lord Greystock, his kinsman,m and all his ancestors.
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