Baron Botreaux
Baron Botreaux is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .
The historical ancestral seat of the barons was Boscastle in Cornwall .
Award and history of the title
The title was created on February 24, 1368 for William de Botreaux by this by King Edward III. was called to parliament by Writ of Summons . His family probably originally came from Les Bottereaux in Normandy .
As Barony by writ , the title can also be inherited in the female line in the absence of male descendants. When the 3rd baron died in 1462, the title fell to his daughter Margaret as 4th baroness. She survived her son and grandson, so in 1477 she passed the title to her great-granddaughter Mary Hungerford as 5th Baroness Botreaux. Mary had inherited the titles of 4th Baroness Hungerford and 3rd Baroness de Moleyns from her paternal grandfather in 1464 , and around 1478 she married William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and their son and heir George Hastings, and 2nd Baron Hastings became Earl of Huntingdon in 1529 raised. From the death of Mary (before 1533) the title of Baron Botreaux until 1789 was a subordinate title of the respective earl. In 1789, on the death of the 10th Earl, the Earldom fell to a distant relative in the male lineage, the Baronies Botreaux, Hastings, Hungerford and de Moleyns fell to his sister Lady Elizabeth, wife of John Rawdon, 1st Earl of Moira . Her son and heir, Francis, was made Marquess of Hastings in 1817 . His son, the 2nd Marquess, inherited the title 7th Earl of Loudoun from his mother in 1840 . His younger son, the 4th Marquess, inherited the title of 21st Baron Gray de Ruthyn from his mother in 1858 . When he died on November 10, 1868, the Marquessate went out, the Earldom Loudoun fell to his eldest sister Edith Rawdon-Hastings and the baronies fell in Abeyance between his four sisters. In 1871 the abeyance of the four baronies Hastings, Botreaux, Hungerford and de Moleyns was ended in favor of the aforementioned Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun. Their son, the 11th Earl, inherited the title of 2nd Baron Donington from his father in 1895 . On his death on May 17, 1920, the Barony of Donington fell to his brother, the Earldom of Loudon to his niece Edith Abney-Hastings and the other baronies fell in Abeyance between his nieces. The abeyance of the baronies Hastings and Botreaux was ended in 1921 in favor of the aforementioned Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess Loudon. In 1921, the title of Baron Stanley , which had been abeyant since 1594, was restored to her as the 7th Baroness. On her death on February 24, 1960, the Earldom of Loudon fell to her eldest daughter, Barbara Abney-Hastings , and her baronies again fell in Abeyance.
The state of Abeyance continues to this day. Today's co-heirs to the baronies of Hastings and Botreaux are: Simon Abney-Hastings, 15th Earl of Loudoun (* 1974), Sheena Williams (* 1941), Flora Purdie (* 1957) and Norman Angus MacLaren (* 1948).
List of Barons Botreaux (1368)
- William de Botreaux, 1st Baron Botreaux († 1391)
- William de Botreaux, 2nd Baron Botreaux († 1392)
- William de Botreaux, 3rd Baron Botreaux (1389–1462)
- Margaret Hungerford, 4th Baroness Botreaux († 1477)
- Mary Hastings, 5th Baroness Botreaux († before 1533)
- George Hastings, 1st Earl of Huntingdon , 6th Baron Botreaux (1488–1544)
- Francis Hastings, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon , 7th Baron Botreaux (1514-1560)
- Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon , 8th Baron Botreaux (1536–1595)
- George Hastings, 4th Earl of Huntingdon , 9th Baron Botreaux (1540-1604)
- Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon , 10th Baron Botreaux (1586–1643)
- Ferdinando Hastings, 6th Earl of Huntingdon , 11th Baron Botreaux (1609–1656)
- Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon , 12th Baron Botreaux (1650–1701)
- George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon , 13th Baron Botreaux (1677–1705)
- Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon , 14th Baron Botreaux (1696–1746)
- Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon , 15th Baron Botreaux (1729–1789)
- Elizabeth Rawdon, Countess of Moira , 16th Baroness Botreaux (1731–1808)
- Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings , 17th Baron Botreaux (1754–1826)
- George Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings , 18th Baron Botreaux (1808–1844)
- Paulyn Rawdon-Hastings, 3rd Marquess of Hastings , 19th Baron Botreaux (1832-1851)
- Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings , 20th Baron Botreaux (1842–1868) (title abeyant 1868)
- Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun , 21st Baroness Botreaux (1833–1874) (Abeyance finished 1871)
- Charles Rawdon-Hastings, 11th Earl of Loudoun , 22nd Baron Botreaux (1855-1920) (title abeyant 1920)
- Edith Abney-Hastings, 12th Countess of Loudoun , 23rd Baroness Botreaux (1883–1960) (Abeyance ended 1921; title abeyant 1960)
Literature and web links
- Charles Kidd: Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Ltd, London 2014, ISBN 0-9929348-2-6 .
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page