Baron Burghersh

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Original family coat of arms of the Barons Burghersh (first and second award)
Coat of arms of the Barons Burghersh (third award)

Baron Burghersh is a hereditary British title of nobility awarded three times in the Peerage of England .

Awards and history of the title

The title was first created on November 12, 1303 for Robert de Burghersh , lord of Burghersh (now Burwash ) in Sussex and Chiddingstone in Kent , when he was appointed to Parliament by Writ of Summons . His eldest son Stephen died in 1310, four years after his father, had never been called to parliament until then and left behind a daughter named Maud de Burghersh, who was first married to Walter Paveley († 1329) and second to Sir Thomas d'Aldon got married. According to today's legal opinion, titles that were created by Writ of Summons as Barony by Writ are also hereditary in the female line - accordingly, the claim to the title would have fallen to Maud and her descendants - it is unclear whether the title expired at the end of the 14th century or fell in Abeyance .

Instead of an heir of this female line, Bartholomew de Burghersh , the third-born brother of the late 1st Baron, was appointed to Parliament as Baron Burghersh by Writ of Summons on January 25, 1330 . According to today's legal conception, he was given the title again. At the death of his son, the 2nd Baron, the title fell in 1369 to his only daughter Elizabeth, who was married to Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser and from this in 1409 to her grandson Richard le Despenser as 4th Baron. Since he remained childless, his sister Isabel followed him as the 5th Baroness in 1414 , and after her in 1439 her son from his second marriage, Henry de Beauchamp, 14th Earl of Warwick , who was also elevated to Duke of Warwick in 1445 . In 1446, his only two-year-old daughter Anne inherited him as the 15th Countess and 7th Baroness, while the Dukedom was extinguished. When Anne died in 1449 at the age of only five, the Earldom fell to her aunt Anne Neville and the Barony of Burghersh fell in Abeyance between the latter and her half-sister Elizabeth Neville, 3rd Baroness Bergavenny .

In the third bestowal, the title of Baron Burghersh , of Burghersh in the County of Sussex, was given to Sir Francis Fane on December 29, 1624 along with the superior title of Earl of Westmorland . The barony is still a subordinate title of the respective earl.

List of Barons Burghersh

Barone Burghersh, first award (1303)

Barone Burghersh, second bestowal (1330)

Barone Burghersh, third bestowal (1624)

Title heir ( Heir Presumptive ) is the brother of the current title holder, Harry Fane (* 1953)

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