Baron Scales
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Baron Scales was a hereditary British title ( Barony by writ ) in the Peerage of England .
Award and history of the title
The title was on February 6 in 1299 by King Edward I to his follower Robert de Scales , Lord of News Elles in Hertfordshire , created, which in its wars against France and Scotland had won by this by Writ of Summons to Parliament was appointed .
When his great-great-great-grandson, the 7th baron, survived his only son, the title fell to his only daughter Elizabeth as the 8th baroness when he died in 1460 . Her second husband, Anthony Woodville , who later became the 2nd Earl Rivers , was appointed to parliament on December 22, 1462 from her right ( iure uxoris ). When Elizabeth died childless on September 2, 1473, the barony in Abeyance fell between the descendants of the two daughters of the 3rd baron and has been inactive since then.
List of Barons Scales (1299)
- Robert de Scales, 1st Baron Scales († 1304)
- Robert de Scales, 2nd Baron Scales († 1324)
- Robert de Scales, 3rd Baron Scales († 1369)
- Roger de Scales, 4th Baron Scales († 1386)
- Robert de Scales, 5th Baron Scales († 1402)
- Robert de Scales, 6th Baron Scales († 1418)
- Thomas de Scales, 7th Baron Scales († 1460)
- Elizabeth Woodville, Countess Rivers , 8th Baroness Scales († 1473) ⚭ Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers , de iure uxoris Baron Scales (around 1442–1483)
literature
- John Burke: A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. H. Colburn & R. Bentley, London 1831, pp. 469-470.
- Bernard Burke: A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison, London 1866, pp. 476-477.