Earl de la Warr

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John West, 2nd Earl De La Warr
Coat of arms of today's Earl De La Warr

Earl De La Warr is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1761 for John West, 7th Baron De La Warr .

The Earls' family home is Buckhurst Park in East Sussex .

Subordinate title

Baron de la Warr

The 1st Earl already carried the title of Baron De La Warr in the Peerage of England , which was created in 1572 in the second bestowal for his great-great-great-great-grandfather William West .

The Barony De La Warr second award also holds priority inheritance claims to the baron title first award in the Peerage of England of 1299. The exact legal situation with regard to the second award is unclear. Often times, clear and uniform rules of inheritance law can be identified from medieval practice, which can be continued up to the present day. But there are many cases in which this is not easy, be it because special local customary law has been applied or because exceptions have been made. This is one such case. The 1st Baron second ceremony was the grandson of the 8th Baron first ceremony legitimate heir in the male line. The first barony, however, was created by writ . As a result, she was usually inheritable in the female line. Accordingly, the title would have fallen in Abeyance between his daughters Mary and Anne of his uncle Sir Owen West († July 18, 1551) and their heirs. The second award can therefore be viewed in at least three ways:

  • As an undisputed inheritance in the male line, if necessary with a corresponding change in priority. Accordingly, some authors ignore the second award and count the 1st baron second award as the 10th baron, etc.
  • As an extraordinary legal act to resolve the succession on an important fiefdom that should not be left in suspension. In this case the previous barony would have expired.
  • As an aid to solving relatively complex problems of inheritance in individual cases before the rules of Abeyance as they exist today were worked out. In this case, the previous barony would have merged with the new one.

Viscount Cantelupe

Together with the earliest dignity, the subordinate title Viscount Cantelupe was created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1761 , which was used as the courtesy title of the title heir until 1870 .

Baron Buckhurst

In 1870 the later 7th Earl De La Warr inherited from his mother the title of Baron Buckhurst , of Buckhurst in the County of Sussex in the Peerage of the United Kingdom , which was created in 1864 for the second award. Since then, the Earl's heir to the title has held the courtesy title of Lord Buckhurst .

List of Earls and Barons De La Warr

Barone De La Warr, first bestowed (1299)

Barone De La Warr, second bestowal (1572)

Earls de la Warr (1761)

The heir ( Heir Apparent ) is the son of the current Earl, William Herbrand Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst (* 1979).
His title heir is his son, the Hon. William Lionel Robert Sackville (* 2014).

Others

By Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr , who from 1610 governor of the British colony Virginia was in America, the bay is Delaware Bay named and after that also the US state of Delaware , the Delaware River , the Indian tribe of Delaware (Lenni Lenape ), as well as several Delaware counties and Delaware townships etc.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.buckhurstpark.co.uk/

Literature and web links