Baron Thwing

Coat of arms of the Barons Thwing

Baron Thwing (also Thweng ) was a hereditary British nobility in the Peerage of England .

The family seat of the barons was Kilton Castle in North Yorkshire .

Award

The title was created on February 22, 1307 for Sir Marmaduke de Thwing from the Thwing family , when King Edward I convened him in the English Parliament by Writ of Summons .

At the death of his younger son, the 4th Baron, on May 28, 1374, the title fell in Abeyance between his sisters Katherine Daubeney and Lucy de Lumley. The Abeyance continues to this day.

List of Barons Thwing (1307)

• Marmaduke de Thwing, 1st Baron Thwing († 1323)
• William de Thwing, 2nd Baron Thwing († 1341)
• Robert de Thwing, 3rd Baron Thwing († 1344)
• Thomas de Thwing, 4th Baron Thwing († 1374) (title abeyant 1374)

Literature and web links

• Bernard Burke: Thweng – Barons Thweng. In: A Genealogical History of the Dormant. Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison, London 1866, p. 532.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page