Baron Darcy of Navan

Baron Darcy , of Navan in the County of Meath , was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Ireland .

To distinguish it from other Baronies Darcy , the title Baron Darcy of Navan (also Baron D'Arcy of Navan ) is called.

Award

The title was created on September 13, 1721 for the British politician James Darcy , who was from 1698 to 1701 and 1702 to 1705 member of the Tories in the English House of Commons for Richmond in North Yorkshire . Since he was married four times, but had no sons, the award was made with the special addition that in the absence of direct male descendants, the title was also given to the male descendants of his daughter Hon.Mary Darcy († 1737), wife of the House of Commons William Jessop ( 1665–1734), is inheritable. Accordingly, the title fell to Mary's only son James Jessop when the 1st Baron died in 1731who took the family name "Darcy" for this purpose and finally went out on June 15, 1733, when he died unmarried.

List of Barons Darcy of Navan (1721)

James Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Navan (1650-1731)
James Darcy, 2nd Baron Darcy of Navan (1707–1733)

Individual evidence

↑ London Gazette . No. 5977, HMSO, London, July 29, 1721, p. 2 ( PDF , English).

Literature and web links

Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Volume 1, Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Wilmington 2003, p. 1028.
Peerage: Darcy of Navan at Leigh Rayment's Peerage ( Memento from October 25, 2019 in the Internet Archive )

[1] London Gazette . No. 5977, HMSO, London, July 29, 1721, p. 2 ( PDF , English).