George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, also Baron Greystock

Baron Greystock

The title Baron Greystock has been created twice in the Peerage of England. It was first created when John de Greystock was summoned to parliament in 1295 and it became extinct on his death...

 and de jure Baron Boteler

Baron Boteler

Baron Boteler was a title that was created three times in the Peerage of England.The first barony, Baron Boteler, of Werington, was created by writ on 23 June 1295 for William le Boteler...

 (ca. 1561 - 17 May 1569) was an English

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 peer

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 and landowner

Landed gentry

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 in the county

County

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 of Cumberland

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He was summoned to parliament at about the age of five.

Life

Born about 1561, Dacre was the only surviving son of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre

Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre

Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, also Baron Greystock and de jure Baron Boteler was an English Member of Parliament and after his father's death a peer and major landowner in the counties of Cumberland, Yorkshire and Northumberland.-Early life:Born about 1527, Dacre was the eldest of...

 (c. 1527-1566), by his marriage to Elizabeth Leyburne

Elizabeth Leyburne

Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk , was a member of the English aristocracy. She first married Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre; following his death in 1566, she secretly married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk. She was his third wife.-Family:Elizabeth was born in 1536, the daughter of Sir...

 (1536–1567), the eldest daughter of Sir James Leyburne of Westmorland

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. This was his father's second marriage. He had a brother, Francis, who died in infancy, and three sisters: Anne

Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel

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 (21 March 1557 – 19 April 1630), Mary (4 July 1563 – 7 April 1578), and Elizabeth (born 12 December 1564)

Dacre succeeded his father as Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland, heiress of a large estate in Cumbria centred on...

 on 1 July 1566, at the age of five. Soon after this, his widowed mother married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk

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, but she died in childbirth on 4 September 1567, so that Dacre and his three sisters were left as members of the household of their widowed step-father, the Duke.

The boy peer, aged no more than five, was summoned to parliament on 30 September 1566. He died on 17 May 1569, when the barony of Dacre, although claimed by his uncle Leonard, was found to have fallen into abeyance

Abeyance

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, leaving Dacre's three sisters as co-heiresses. By the age of fourteen, each of the three had been married to one of their step-brothers, the sons of the Duke.