Philip Darcy, 6th Baron Darcy de Knayth

Philip Darcy, 6th Baron Darcy de Knayth (after another count also 5th Baron Darcy ) (* around 1398; † August 2, 1418 ) was an English nobleman.

Philip Darcy came from the English Darcy family . He was the eldest son of John Darcy, 5th Baron Darcy de Knayth and his wife Margaret Gray . After his father's death in 1411, he inherited the family's estates. Since he was still a minor, Sir Henry Fitzhugh became his guardian. Fitzhugh married him to his daughter Alianore Fitzhugh († 1469). With her he had two daughters:

• Elizabeth Darcy (around 1417 – after 1458) ⚭ Sir James Strangways († 1480)
• Margery Darcy (1418–1469) Sir John Conyers from Hornby († 1490)

Darcy died in 1418, before he came of age. His widow married Sir Thomas Tunstall from Thurland in his second marriage , and after his death in third marriage Henry Bromflete, 1st Baron Vescy . In 1421 she received a third of the possessions as Wittum from the Darcy inheritance , another part of the possessions was still in the possession of Philips mother as Wittum. In 1427 a commission decided that the goods of Temple Newsam and Temple Hirst in Yorkshire together with other possessions may only be inherited in male succession. These possessions then fell to Philips' younger brother, John Darcy . The two underage daughters of Philip Darcy inherited only a small part of the family estates, which they divided among themselves.

The title Baron Darcy de Knayth was subsequently awarded to Darcy in 1903 by the House of Lords .

Web links

• Anthony Verduyn: Darcy family (per. C. 1284-1488). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
• Philip Darcy, 6th Lord Darcy de Knayth on thepeerage.com , accessed January 2, 2019.