Baron Talbot

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Original coat of arms of the Barons Talbot

Baron Talbot was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

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The title was created on January 27, 1332 for Gilbert Talbot , the feudal Lord of Eccleswall in Herefordshire by King Edward III. appointed him to his parliament via Writ of Summons . As Barony by writ , the title could also be inherited in the female line.

His great-great grandson, the 5th Baron, inherited the title Baron Strange of Blackmere, created in 1309, from his mother in 1413 . At his death in 1419, both baronies fell to his daughter Ankaret Talbot and at her death in 1421 to her uncle John Talbot, 6th Baron Furnivall , who was elevated to Earl of Shrewsbury in 1442 and Earl of Waterford in 1446 .

When the 7th Earl died on May 8, 1616, his baronies fell by writ in Abeyance between his three daughters Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Elizabeth Gray, Countess of Kent, and Alethea Howard, Countess of Arundel. The Abeyance was ended in 1651 in favor of Alethea, who received the titles 17th Baroness Strange of Blackmere and 13th Baroness Furnivall . At her death in 1654 she was inherited by her grandson Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk .

At the death of the 9th Duke and 22nd Baron Strange of Blackmere on September 20, 1777, his Baronies by writ fell again in Abeyance. Co-heirs are the descendants of his two nieces Winifred, Lady Stourton, and Ann, Lady Petre.

List of Barons Talbot (1331)

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