Baron Geneville

Baron Geneville (also Genevill ) was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

Award and history of the title

The title was created on February 6, 1299 by King Edward I for his follower Geoffrey de Geneville ( French: Geoffroy de Joinville ), who came from Champagne , when he was summoned to the royal parliament by Writ of Summons .

The title was suspended since his death on October 21, 1314, as none of his descendants claimed the title formally. His eldest son and heir, Piers de Geneville, had died around 1292 but had left three daughters, of which only the eldest, Joan de Geneville , who was married to Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March , had offspring. When their great-great-great-great-great-grandson was crowned king as Edward IV in 1461 , the de iure claim to the title of baron also merged with the crown and thus became extinct for good.

List of Barons Geneville (1299)

• Geoffrey de Geneville, 1st Baron Geneville (around 1226-1314) (title dormant 1314)

Literature and web links

• George Edward Cokayne (Ed.): Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom . G. Bell & sons, London 1887, p. 17 ( archive.org ).
• Leigh Rayment′s peerage