Baron Mohun
Baron Mohun was a hereditary British title of nobility awarded twice in the Peerage of England .
Awards
The title was first created on February 6, 1299 for John de Mohun , Lord of Dunster Castle , when he was appointed to the royal parliament by King Edward I through Writ of Summons . His grandson, the 2nd Baron, was a founding member of the Order of the Garter in 1348 . Since he survived his only childless son, the title fell between his two daughters when he died in Abeyance in 1375 . In 1431 the de iure claim to the title fell to the son of his older daughter John Lestrange, 8th Baron Strange of Knockin (1449–1479) as the surviving sole heir. Since he already held the title of 8th Baron Strange , the title of Baron Mohun was never formally confirmed to him. At the death of his descendant Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby , de iure 8th Baron Mohun, the title would have fallen again in Abeyance in 1594.
In the second bestowal, the title of Baron Mohun , of Okehampton in the County of Devon , was bestowed on John Mohun by Letters Patent of April 15, 1628 . This inherited in 1639 from his father Sir Reginald Mohun, 1st Baronet (around 1564-1639) also the title of Baronet , of Boconnoc in the County of Cornwall , which had been awarded to this on November 25, 1611 in the Baronetage of England . Both titles expired with the death of his great-grandson, the 4th Baron, who died childless on November 15, 1712 in a duel with James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton .
List of Barons Mohun
Barons Mohun, first bestowed (1299)
- John de Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun († 1330)
- John de Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun (around 1320-1375) (title abeyant 1375)
Barons Mohun, second bestowal (1628)
- John Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun (1595–1641)
- Warwick Mohun, 2nd Baron Mohun (1620–1665)
- Charles Mohun, 3rd Baron Mohun (around 1645–1677)
- Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun (1677-1712)
literature
- Charles Mosley (Ed.): Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage . Burke's Peerage, Wilmington 2003, Volume 1, p. 682 and Volume 3, p. 3474.
- George Edward Cokayne , Vicary Gibbs (Eds.): The Complete Peerage . , Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester 2000, Volume 9, p. 26.