Baron Cobham

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Baron Cobham is a hereditary British title of nobility that has been awarded seven times, partly in parallel, five times in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of Great Britain .

Awards

The title was first created on January 8, 1313 in the Peerage of England for Henry de Cobham , when he was called to the royal parliament by Writ of Summons . The title is also called Baron Cobham of Kent to distinguish it from later parallel awards . Henry de Cobham, like his father, was an important landowner in Kent, as well as Constable of Rochester and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports . As Barony by writ , the title is also hereditary in the female line, so that on the death of the 3rd Baron in 1408, who had no male heirs, it fell to his granddaughter as the 4th Baroness, and in 1434 to her daughter as the 5th Baroness. Their great-great-great-great-grandson, the 11th baron, was imprisoned in 1603 for participating in a conspiracy against King James I and his title was revoked by the Bill of Attainder for high treason. This meant that the title was deemed to have expired, but on September 8, 1916, his descendant and heir Gervaise Disney Alexander obtained that the Bill of Attainder was retroactively repealed by the Act of Parliament and that the title was confirmed to him as the 15th Baron. The responsible Committee for Privileges and Conduct of the House of Lords had confirmed that when the 11th Baron de iure died, the claim to the title had passed to his son as the 12th baron and that on his death in 1643, due to a lack of male heirs, had fallen into Abeyance . In 1721 William Boothby was then the sole heir (as de iure 13th Baron), who was then followed by de iure Mary Disney as 14th Baroness. After her death, the barony fell again in Abeyance, until in 1916 Gervaise Disney Alexander surrendered as the legitimate heir, who successfully petitioned for the title. Since the death of his brother, the 16th Baron, on February 21, 1951, the title rests in Abeyance again.

The second bestowal of the title was created on December 30, 1324 in the Peerage of England by Writ of Summons for Sir Ralph de Cobham . He had distinguished himself as a knight in the unsuccessful battle of Byland Abbey on October 14, 1322 under the Earl of Richmond against the Scots and was probably related to the 1st Baron first award. With the childless death of his son John after 1378, the title expired.

In the third award, the title was recreated on December 3, 1326 in the Peerage of England by Writ of Summons for Sir Stephen de Cobham , a knight from Rundale (also Runham ) in Kent. The title is also called Baron Cobham of Rundale or Baron Cobham of Runham to distinguish it from the other awards . On the death of his great-great-grandson, the 5th baron, before 1429, the title fell in Abeyance .

In the fourth bestowal, the title Baron Cobham was recreated on February 15, 1342 in the Peerage of England by Writ of Summons for Sir Reginald de Cobham . His family seat was Sterborough Castle in Lingfield , Surrey . The title is also called Baron Cobham of Sterborough to distinguish it from the other awards . On the death of his son of the same name, the 2nd Baron, before 1429, the title fell in Abeyance.

On January 3, 1645, the title was awarded in the fifth bestowal in the Peerage of England by Letters Patent to the royalist House of Commons John Brooke . His father was the youngest son of the 9th Baron's first award . The title expired when he died childless in 1660.

On October 19, 1714, the title of Baron Cobham , of Cobham in the County of Kent, was created in the Peerage of Great Britain for the newly appointed British Ambassador to Vienna, Sir Richard Temple, 4th Baronet . He was a successful troop leader in the War of the Spanish Succession and a longstanding member of the House of Commons . On May 23, 1718 he was raised in the Peerage of Great Britain to Viscount Cobham and again to Baron Cobham , of Cobham in the County of Kent. In contrast to the Barony of 1714, both of these titles were awarded with the special addition that, in the absence of own descendants, they could also be inherited by his sisters Hester Grenville and Christian Lyttelton and their male descendants. With his childless death on September 14, 1749, the barony of 1714 expired, the barony of 1718 and the Viscountcy fell to his older sister Hester. Today a descendant of the younger sister holds both titles.

List of Barons Cobham

Barone Cobham (of Kent), first bestowed (1313)

Barone Cobham, second bestowal (1324)

Barone Cobham (of Rundale), third bestowal (1326)

Barone Cobham (of Sterborough), fourth bestowal (1347)

Barone Cobham, fifth bestowal (1645)

Barone Cobham, sixth bestowal (1714)

Barone Cobham, seventh bestowal (1718)

Title heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current title holder, Hon. Oliver Lyttelton (* 1976).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cobham . In: The Complete Peerage , Volume III, p. 343 ff.
  2. ^ The London Gazette : No. 5269, p. 2 , October 16, 1714.