Baron Bonville
Baron Bonville was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .
Award and history of the title
The title was on March 10, 1449 by King Henry VI. created for William Bonville by being appointed to the English Parliament via Writ of Summons .
The 1st Baron survived his son William Bonville and his grandson William Bonville, 6th Baron Harington , who both died at the Battle of Wakefield during the Wars of the Roses in 1460 . The latter had inherited the title of Baron Harington from his maternal grandfather in 1458 and left behind an only daughter named Cecily Bonville. In 1460 she inherited her father as 7th Baroness Harington and in 1461 her grandfather as 2nd Baroness Bonville and in 1474 married Thomas Gray, 1st Marquess of Dorset . Their son Thomas Gray inherited from his father in 1501 as 2nd Marquess of Dorset and 8th Baron Ferrers of Groby, as well as his mother's two baronies in 1529. His son, the 3rd Marquess , also became the Duke of Suffolk in 1551 . After the death of King Edward VI. he tried unsuccessfully to enforce his daughter Lady Jane Gray against the Catholic heir to the throne Maria I. He was eventually ostracized and executed for high treason in 1554 , forfeiting all his titles.
List of Barons Harington (1449)
- William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville (1392–1461)
- Cecily Gray, Marchioness of Dorset , 2nd Baroness Bonville (1460–1529)
- Thomas Gray, 2nd Marquess of Dorset , 3rd Baron Bonville (1477-1530)
- Henry Gray, 1st Duke of Suffolk , 4th Baron Bonville († 1554) (title forfeited 1554)
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Ed.): The Complete Peerage . Volume 2, Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester 2000, p. 218.
Web links
- Peerage: Bonville at Leigh Rayment's Peerage ( Memento from October 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )