Baron Conyers

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Baron Conyers is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

history

The barony was created on October 17, 1509 for Sir William Conyers by a Writ of Summons by King Henry VIII , with which he called William Conyers to the English House of Lords and thus made him hereditary Baron Conyers, a barony by writ , in the peerage of England made. The new barony was inherited in the Conyers family until the 3rd baron. Then it fell in Abeyance in 1557 because the 3rd Baron had only female heirs. The barony remained in this state of rest until it was successfully petitioned in 1641 by Sir Conyers Darcy, who was also 7th Baron Darcy de Knayth , who was confirmed by the crown as 4th Baron Conyers.

The barony remained in the Darcy family until 1778 and then passed through female succession to the Duke of Leeds from the Osborne family. From this family she finally passed on to the Pelham family, interrupted by a brief abeyance from 1888 to 1892. The 14th Baron Conyers, also the 5th Earl of Yarborough , left only two daughters in 1948, so that the Barony Conyers, which was now separated from the Barony Darcy de Knayth, but also acquired the Barony Fauconberg (created 1295), again fell in Abeyance. After the childless death of one of the two daughters of the 14th Baron in 2012, the surviving daughter Diana Mary Miller, b. Pelham, both titles, and became 8th Baroness Fauconberg and 15th Baroness Conyers. Since her death in 2013, the title has been back in Abeyance between her two daughters.

List of Barons Conyers (1509)

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