Baron de Ros

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Coat of arms of the Baronie de Ros

Baron de Ros , of Helmsley , is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of England .

It is a so-called barony by writ , which is one of the oldest titles that were created in this way.

Descent of the Barone de Ros and existence of the barony

Sir Robert de Ros was descended from Piers de Ros, his great-grandfather, who was steward Dapifer of the French Count of Aumale and who died around 1130. Sir Robert de Ros became a supporter of Simons von Montfort in 1263/64 and convened by him on December 24, 1264 in the name of the king by a Writ of Summons to the Parliament of Montfort. For a long time in English constitutional history it was questionable whether this convocation had established a hereditary barony, if only because it had not been authorized by the king. The question of whether the Barony de Ros would be recognized as having existed since 1264 remained pending for a long time. In the following years, the titleholders petitioned repeatedly to get Robert recognized as 1st Baron de Ros. First, as a first step, the barony was given priority over all other baronies in the kingdom in 1616. In 1806 the House of Lords finally recognized the Barony de Ros of 1264 for Sir Robert de Ros as 1st Baron as well founded. At the same time, it was legally recognized that the Baronie de Ros is the oldest in the Peerage of England and can therefore use the title of Premier barony of England .

The claim to be the oldest barony of the Peerage of England was denied to the Barons de Ros in 1949. Since then, the title Baron Mowbray , created in 1283, has been considered the oldest title of a Baron of the Peerage of England. For the title of Baron de Ros, 1299 was the first to be called up.

During the Wars of the Roses , the 9th Baron was executed for high treason in 1464 and his title was revoked. At the end of the war in 1485, his son Edmund de Ros was reinstated as the 10th baron. When he died childless in 1508, the de Ros family became extinct in the male line, whereupon the title passed to his nephew George Manners as 11th baron after brief abeyance in 1512 in female lineage . His son, the 12th Baron, was also made Earl of Rutland in 1525 . On the death of his grandson, the 3rd Earl, the Earldom fell to his brother in 1587, but the barony to his only daughter Elisabeth Cecil as the 15th Baroness. At the death of her son, the 16th baron, the title fell in 1618 to his second uncle, Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland and on his death in 1632 to his daughter Katherine as the 18th baroness, who was the 1st Duke of Buckingham was married. On the death of their son, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham , in 1687, the barony fell in Abeyance. This was only ended in 1806 in favor of Lady Charlotte FitzGerald as the 20th baroness. From then on, apart from short-term Abeyances, the title was occupied. The current title holder is Peter Maxwell as the 27th Baron.

List of Barons de Ros (1264/1299)

Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros

Estimated heir ( Heir apparent ) is the son of the current baron, Hon. Finbar James Maxwell (* 1988).

Other bearers of the title Baron Ros

In the 13th and 14th centuries, other members of the de Ros family were appointed to the English parliaments as Baron Ros , but since they died childless, their titles expired with their death:

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  1. ^ The Complete Peerage , Volume XI, p. 91.
  2. ^ The London Gazette : 15943, 1010 , August 5, 1806.
  3. ↑ George Edward Cokayne: The Complete Peerage , edited by Geoffrey H. White XI. St. Catherine Press, London 1949. p. 95