Baron Braye
Baron Braye , of Eaton Bray in the County of Bedford , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .
The family seat of the barons is Stanford Hall near Lutterworth in Leicestershire .
Award
The title was created on December 4, 1529 as Barony by writ for Sir Edmund Braye , when he was called to Parliament by Writ of Summons .
At the death of his son, the 2nd baron, in 1557, the title in Abeyance fell between his six sisters. This state of affairs continued until in 1839 a descendant of one of these daughters successfully petitioned the Barony Braye and became 3rd Baroness Braye. After their death in 1862 the barony fell again in Abeyance between their four daughters, but in 1879 the youngest of them was again restituted as 1879.
Today's title holder has been her great-great-granddaughter Mary Aubrey-Fletcher as the 8th Baroness since 1977 . She has no children, the next co-heirs ( Coheiress Presumptive ) are her second cousins, the sisters Linda Kathleen Fothergill (* 1930) and Theresa Beatrice Browne (* 1934).
List of Barons Braye (1529)
- Edmund Braye, 1st Baron Braye (1484–1539)
- John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye († 1557) (title abeyant 1557)
- Sarah Otway-Cave, 3rd Baroness Braye (1768–1862) (Abeyance finished 1839, title abeyant 1862)
- Henrietta Wyatt-Edgell, 4th Baroness Braye (1809–1879) (Abeyance finished 1879)
- Alfred Verney-Cave, 5th Baron Braye (1849–1928)
- Adrian Verney Verney-Cave, 6th Baron Braye (1874–1952)
- Thomas Adrian Verney-Cave, 7th Baron Braye (1902–1977)
- Mary Aubrey-Fletcher, 8th Baroness Braye (* 1941)
Literature and web links
- Charles Kidd, David Williamson (Eds.): Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. St Martin's Press, New York 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
- Braye, Baron (E, 1529) at Cracroft's Peerage