Baron Botreaux

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Original coat of arms of the Barons 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)

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