Baron Gray of Rotherfield
Baron Gray of Rotherfield was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .
The family seat of the barons was Grays Court in Rotherfield Grays in Oxfordshire .
Award
The title was created on August 25, 1338 for the courtier and military man Sir John de Gray , when he was appointed to Parliament by Writ of Summons . In 1348 he was accepted as a founding member of the Order of the Garter.
The title was suspended since the death of the 4th baron on January 14, 1388, who had no sons. His only daughter Joan and her descendants have never formally claimed the title. When her great-grandson and heir Francis Lovel, 1st Viscount Lovel , 9th Baron Lovel , 6th Baron Holand was ostracized by Parliament for high treason ( Bill of Attainder ) in 1485 , the de iure claim to the Barony of Gray of Rotherfield was final forfeited.
List of Barons Gray of Rotherfield (1338)
- John Gray, 1st Baron Gray of Rotherfield (1300-1359)
- John Gray, 2nd Baron Gray of Rotherfield (1320-1375)
- Bartholomew Gray, 3rd Baron Gray of Rotherfield (1351-1376)
- Robert Gray, 4th Baron Gray of Rotherfield († 1388) (title dormant 1388)
Literature and web links
- John William Clay: The extinct and dormant peerages of the northern counties of England. J. Nisbet & co., London 1913, p. 92 ff. ( Archive.org )
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page