Earl of Shrewsbury (pronounced [ˈʃrəʊsbrɪ] "Shrowsbury" not [ˈʃruːsbrɪ] "Shrewsbury") is a hereditary title of
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created twice in the
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.
First creation
The first creation occurred in 1074 for
Roger de MontgomerieRoger de Montgomerie, also known as Roger the Great de Montgomery, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury. His father was also Roger de Montgomerie, and was a relative, probably a grandnephew, of the Duchess Gunnor, wife of Duke Richard I of Normandy...
, one of William the Conqueror's principal counselors. Roger thus became one of the most powerful magnates in England, ruling most of
ShropshireShropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Wales to the west. Shropshire is one of England's most rural and sparsely populated counties with a population density of 91/km²...
and holding lands in eleven other counties.
He was one of the
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; his estate in Shropshire was to be a bulwark against Welsh incursion, and extended into Mid-Wales, the county of
MontgomeryshireMontgomeryshire, also known as Maldwyn is one of thirteen historic counties and a former administrative county of Wales. It is named after one of William the Conqueror's main counsellors, Roger de Montgomerie, who was the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury....
being named for him.
Roger was succeeded in 1094 by his younger son
HughHugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat.- Lineage :He was the second surviving son of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel of Bellême...
, his elder son
Robert of BellêmeRobert de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury , also spelled Belleme or Belesme, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror...
succeeding to his lands in
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. On Hugh’s death in 1098 the earldom passed to his brother Robert.
The title was forfeit in 1102 after the 3rd Earl,
RobertRobert de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury , also spelled Belleme or Belesme, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror...
rebelled against
Henry IHenry I was the fourth son of William I the Conqueror. He succeeded his elder brother William II as King of England in 1100 and defeated his eldest brother, Robert Curthose, to become Duke of Normandy in 1106...
and joined Robert Curthose's invasion of England in 1101.
These earls were sometimes styled
Earl of Shropshire.
Second creation
The title was created for a second time in the
Peerage of EnglandThe Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. In that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were replaced by one Peerage of Great Britain....
in 1442 when
John Talbot, 7th Baron TalbotJohn Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was an important English military commander during the Hundred Years' War, as well as the only Lancastrian Constable of France.-Family:...
, an English general in the
Hundred Years' WarThe Hundred Years' War was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The two primary contenders were the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known...
, was made
Earl of Shrewsbury. He was also made hereditary
Lord High Steward of IrelandThe Lord High Steward of Ireland is a hereditary Great Officer of State in Ireland, sometimes known as the Hereditary Great Seneschal. The Earls of Shrewsbury have held the office since the 15th century....
. He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl, who had already succeeded as seventh
Baron FurnivallBaron Furnivall is an ancient title in the Peerage of England. It was originally created when Thomas de Furnivall was summoned to the Model Parliament of 1295 as Lord Furnivall. The barony later passed to Thomas Nevill, who had married Joan de Furnivall, and was summoned to parliament in her right...
on his mother's death in 1433. Lord Shrewsbury served as both
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and Lord High Treasurer of England. He was killed at the
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in 1460 during the
Wars of the RosesThe Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the rival houses of Lancaster and York, for the throne of England. They are generally accepted to have been fought in several spasmodic episodes between 1455 and 1487...
.
His grandson, the fourth Earl, was Lord Steward of the Household between 1509 and 1538. His son, the fifth Earl, was summoned to the
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through a
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as Lord Talbot in 1533, five years before he succeeded his father. On his death the titles passed to his son, the sixth Earl. He was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration as Lord Talbot in 1553. Lord Shrewsbury was entrusted with the custody of
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, and also served as
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from 1572 to 1590. He married as his second wife the famous
Bess of HardwickElizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury , known as Bess of Hardwick, was the third surviving daughter of John Hardwick, of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire...
.
Shrewsbury was succeeded by his son from his first marriage to Lady Gertrude Manners, the seventh Earl. He represented
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in the
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and served as
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. He had no sons and on his death in 1616 the baronies of Talbot,
Strange of BlackmereThe title Baron Strange of/de Blackmere was created once in the Peerage of England. On 13 January 1309 Fulk le Strange was summoned to parliament. On the death of the fifth baron in 1375, it was inherited by Elizabeth Mowbray, née le Strange. And on her death in 1383, it was inherited by Ankaret...
and
FurnivallBaron Furnivall is an ancient title in the Peerage of England. It was originally created when Thomas de Furnivall was summoned to the Model Parliament of 1295 as Lord Furnivall. The barony later passed to Thomas Nevill, who had married Joan de Furnivall, and was summoned to parliament in her right...
fell into
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between his three daughters. He was succeeded in the earldoms by his younger brother, the eighth Earl. He was
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for
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. He did not have a male heir either and was succeeded by his distant relative, the ninth Earl. He was the great-great-grandson of Sir Gilbert Talbot (d. 1518), third son of the second Earl of Shrewsbury. The family bought
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in 1593 as part of the estate.
He was succeeded by his nephew, the tenth Earl. He was the son of John Talbot. On his death the titles passed to his son, the eleventh Earl. He was killed in a duel with
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. His son, the twelfth Earl, was a prominent statesman. He was one of the Immortal Seven who in 1688 invited
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to invade England and depose his father-in-law
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and later served under William and Mary as
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and
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. In 1694 he was created
Marquess of Alton and
Duke of Shrewsbury in the Peerage of England. The Duke was childless and on his death in 1718 the marquessate and dukedom became extinct.
He was succeeded in his other titles by his first cousin, the thirteenth Earl. He was the son of the Hon. Gilbert Talbot, second son of the tenth Earl. Lord Shrewsbury was in the
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of the
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. On his death the titles passed to his nephew George, the fourteenth Earl (who was the son of the Hon. George Talbot). He was childless and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, the fifteenth Earl (who was the son of Charles Talbot). He began in 1812 the creation of the extensive gardens at Alveton Lodge, Staffordshire (later renamed
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) which estate had been in the family since the 15th century. When he died the titles were inherited by his nephew John, the sixteenth Earl who was the son of the Hon. John Joseph Talbot. When in 1831 the principal home of the famiy at Heythrop, Oxfordshire was destroyed by fire he moved the family seat to Alton Towers. He was succeeded by Bertram, his second cousin once removed, the seventeenth Earl who was the great-grandson of the Hon. George Talbot, younger son of the aforementioned Gilbert Talbot (d. 1711), second son of the tenth Earl.
Bertram died unmarried at an early age in 1856. By his will he left his estates to
Lord Edmund Howard (later Talbot)Edmund Bernard FitzAlan-Howard, 1st Viscount FitzAlan of Derwent KG, PC , known as Lord Edmund Talbot between 1876 and 1921, was a British Conservative politician and the last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.-Background:...
, son of the
Duke of NorfolkHenry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, 14th Duke of Norfolk was the son of Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk and Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower...
, but the will was contested by three distant relatives and after a long and expensive legal case the House of Lords ruled in 1860 in favour of Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot, who thus became the eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. He was a descendant of the aforementioned the Hon. Sir Gilbert Talbot (d. 1518), third son of the second Earl of Shrewsbury (see the
Earl TalbotEarl Talbot is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. This branch of the Talbot family descends from the Hon. Sir Gilbert Talbot , third son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury. His great-great-great-grandson the Right Reverend William Talbot was Bishop of Oxford,...
for earlier history of this branch of the family). He also held the titles of
Baron Talbot, of Hensol in the County of Glamorgan, and
Viscount of Ingestre, of
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in the County of Stafford. Lord Shrewsbury was an
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in the
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and also served in the second
Conservative administrationAfter the collapse of Lord Palmerston's first government, the Tory leader Lord Derby again formed a minority government, with Benjamin Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The government oversaw the establishment of Crown rule in India, but was still not strong enough to retain power, falling...
of the
Earl of DerbyEdward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party...
as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (chief whip in the House of Lords) from 1858 to 1859.
His eldest son, the nineteenth Earl, also served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, an office he held from 1874 to 1877 under Benjamin Disraeli. He was succeeded by his son, the twentieth Earl. He caused a scandal in Victorian England by eloping with a married woman, Ellen Miller-Mundy. They were later married. On his death the titles passed to his grandson, the twenty-first Earl. He was the son of Charles John Alton Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre. As of 2007 the peerages are held by the twenty-first Earl's eldest son, the twenty-second Earl, who succeeded in 1980. He is one of the
ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the
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, and sits on the Conservative benches. He is also hereditary
Lord High Steward of IrelandThe Lord High Steward of Ireland is a hereditary Great Officer of State in Ireland, sometimes known as the Hereditary Great Seneschal. The Earls of Shrewsbury have held the office since the 15th century....
and as the holder of this office is allowed to bear a white staff at the
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.
Lord Shrewsbury is the senior
EarlEarl was the Anglo-Saxon form and jarl the Scandinavian form of a title meaning "chieftain" and referring especially to chieftains set to rule a territory in a king's stead...
on the Roll in the
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(the more senior
earldom of ArundelThe title Earl of Arundel is the oldest extant Earldom and perhaps the oldest extant title in the Peerage of England. It is currently held by the Duke of Norfolk, and is used by his Heir Apparent as a courtesy title. It was created in 1138 for the Norman baron Sir William d'Aubigny...
being held by the
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). The earldom of Waterford is sometimes called the "Premier Earldom of Ireland
on the Roll", as the oldest Irish earldom, that of
KildareEarl of Kildare is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.John FitzThomas FitzGerald, the eldest son of Thomas, Lord Offaly, was created Earl of Kildare by Letters Patent by King Edward II on May 14, 1316....
, has been a subsidiary title of the
Duke of LeinsterThe Duke of Leinster is Ireland's premier peer.-Earls of Kildare:...
for centuries and the Earl held the oldest Irish earldom held by anyone ranked as an Earl. If the
Viscount MountgarretViscount Mountgarret is a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1550 for the Hon. Richard Butler, younger son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde. His grandson, the third Viscount, was outlawed and excepted from pardon in 1652, one year after his death...
proves his presumed claim to the 1328 earldom of Ormonde, the Earls of Shrewsbury would lose this distinction, but they derive higher
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from their English earldom in any event. Despite holding three differently named earldoms Lord Shrewsbury is always styled simply "The Earl of Shrewsbury".
The seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury was once
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until it was sold to
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. Their seat is now at Wanfield Hall in
StaffordshireStaffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
.
Three other members of the Talbot family may also be mentioned. The Hon.
John TalbotJohn Talbot, 1st Viscount Lisle , English nobleman and medieval soldier, was the son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and his second wife Margaret Beauchamp.- Titles :...
, son of the first Earl of Shrewsbury by his second wife Margaret Beauchamp, was created
Viscount LisleThe title of Viscount Lisle has been created six times in the Peerage of England. The first creation, on 30 October 1451, was for John Talbot, 1st Baron Lisle. Upon the death of his son Thomas at the Battle of Nibley Green in 1470, the viscountcy became extinct and the barony abeyant.In 1475, the...
in 1451. Admiral the Hon. Walter Carpenter (who assumed the surname of Carpenter in lieu of his patronymic Chetwynd-Talbot), second son of the eighteenth Earl, was a naval commander and
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. Major-General the Hon.
Sir Reginald TalbotMajor-General Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, KCB was a British military officer, Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, and Governor of Victoria in Australia.-Early life:...
, third son of the eighteenth Earl, was a soldier, politician and colonial governor.
Earls of Shrewsbury, First Creation (1074)
- Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
Roger de Montgomerie, also known as Roger the Great de Montgomery, was the first Earl of Shrewsbury. His father was also Roger de Montgomerie, and was a relative, probably a grandnephew, of the Duchess Gunnor, wife of Duke Richard I of Normandy...
(d. 1094)
- Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
Hugh of Montgomery, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury was an Anglo-Norman aristocrat.- Lineage :He was the second surviving son of Roger of Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel of Bellême...
(d. 1098)
- Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
Robert de Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury , also spelled Belleme or Belesme, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures in the competition for the succession to England and Normandy between the sons of William the Conqueror...
(1052–1113) (forfeit 1102)
Earls of Shrewsbury, Second Creation (1442)
- John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury was an important English military commander during the Hundred Years' War, as well as the only Lancastrian Constable of France.-Family:...
(1390–1453)
- John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford KG , was an English nobleman and soldier. He was the son of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Maud Nevill....
(1413–1460)
- John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford KG , was an English nobleman. He was the son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Elizabeth Butler....
(1448–1473)
- George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury
George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford KG was the son of John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Catherine Stafford.His maternal grandparents were Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Anne Neville...
(1468–1538)
- Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury
Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford KG was the son of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury and Anne Hastings.His maternal grandparents were William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings and Katherine Neville...
(1500–1560)
- George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury
George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford KG, was a 16th century English statesman.-Life:Talbot was the only son of Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury. In early life he saw active military service, when he took part in the invasion of Scotland under the Protector Somerset...
(1528–1590)
- Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury
Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford KG , was the son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, by the latter's first marriage to Gertrude Manners, daughter of the first Earl of Rutland....
(1552–1616)
- Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury
Edward Talbot, 8th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford , was the younger brother and nearest male heir of Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury, whom he succeeded as Earl of Shrewsbury and Lord High Steward of Ireland in 1616.He was born in Sheffield, the son of George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury,...
(1561–1617)
- George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrewsbury
George Talbot, 9th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford was the son of Sir John Talbot of Grafton in Worcestershire, a prominent Roman Catholic....
(1567–1630)
- John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford was an English nobleman.He married Mary Fortescue, by whom he had five children:...
(1601–1654)
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury
Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford was an English peer, the second son of the 10th Earl of Shrewsbury....
(1623–1667)
- Charles Talbot, 12th Earl of Shrewsbury
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC was the only son of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife, formerly Lady Anne-Marie Brudenell, a daughter of 2nd Earl of Cardigan .Talbot was a godson of King Charles II, after whom he was...
(1660–1718) (created Duke of Shrewsbury in 1694)
Dukes of Shrewsbury (1694)
- Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, 12th Earl of Shrewsbury
Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, KG, PC was the only son of the 11th Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife, formerly Lady Anne-Marie Brudenell, a daughter of 2nd Earl of Cardigan .Talbot was a godson of King Charles II, after whom he was...
(1660–1718)
Earls of Shrewsbury, Second Creation (1442; Reverted)
- Gilbert Talbot, 13th Earl of Shrewsbury (1673–1743)
- George Talbot, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury (1719–1787)
- Charles Talbot, 15th Earl of Shrewsbury (1753–1827)
- John Talbot, 16th Earl of Shrewsbury (1791–1852)
- Bertram Arthur Talbot, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury (1832–1856)
- Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, 3rd Earl Talbot
Admiral Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, 3rd Earl Talbot and 18th Earl of Waterford, CB, PC was a British naval commander and Conservative politician....
(1803–1868)
- Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, 4th Earl Talbot
Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, 4th Earl Talbot and 19th Earl of Waterford, PC , styled Viscount Ingestre from 1849 to 1868, was a British Conservative politician....
(1830–1877)
- Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, 5th Earl Talbot
Major Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, 5th Earl Talbot and 20th Earl of Waterford , was a British peer.Talbot was the only son and heir of the Charles Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury...
(1860–1921)
- John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, 6th Earl Talbot (1914–1980)
- Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury, 7th Earl Talbot
Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury, 7th Earl Talbot and 22nd Earl of Waterford is the son of the 21st Earl of Shrewsbury and the former Nadine Crofton.He was educated at Harrow School....
(b. 1952)
The
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is the present holder's son James Richard Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre (b. 1978)
See also
- Earl Talbot
Earl Talbot is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. This branch of the Talbot family descends from the Hon. Sir Gilbert Talbot , third son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury. His great-great-great-grandson the Right Reverend William Talbot was Bishop of Oxford,...
- Baron Talbot
Baron Talbot is a title that has been created twice. The title was created first in the Peerage of England. On 5 June 1331, Sir Gilbert Talbot was summoned to Parliament, by which he is held to have become Baron Talbot...
- Viscount Lisle
The title of Viscount Lisle has been created six times in the Peerage of England. The first creation, on 30 October 1451, was for John Talbot, 1st Baron Lisle. Upon the death of his son Thomas at the Battle of Nibley Green in 1470, the viscountcy became extinct and the barony abeyant.In 1475, the...
- Baron Furnivall
Baron Furnivall is an ancient title in the Peerage of England. It was originally created when Thomas de Furnivall was summoned to the Model Parliament of 1295 as Lord Furnivall. The barony later passed to Thomas Nevill, who had married Joan de Furnivall, and was summoned to parliament in her right...
- Baron Strange of Blackmere
The title Baron Strange of/de Blackmere was created once in the Peerage of England. On 13 January 1309 Fulk le Strange was summoned to parliament. On the death of the fifth baron in 1375, it was inherited by Elizabeth Mowbray, née le Strange. And on her death in 1383, it was inherited by Ankaret...