19-585: The title Baron Bergavenny (or Abergavenny ) was created several times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of Great Britain , all but the first being baronies created by error . Abergavenny is a market town in South East Wales with a castle established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087 . The feudal barony of Abergavenny came into existence shortly after
38-536: A moiety of his fiefdom would generally pass to each daughter, to be held by her husband. This would involve the division of the barony, generally consisting of several manors, into two or more groups of manors, which division would presumably be effected by negotiation between the parties concerned. Such was the case in the barony of Newmarch, the caput or chief manor of which was at North Cadbury , Somerset, when James de Newmarch died in 1216; had no son but left two co-heiresses, Isabel and Hawise, who being heirs of
57-697: A tenant-in-chief became wards of the king. Certain freehold and copyhold hereditaments and leasehold tenements of Henry Belward Ray were left in his will to infants with whom he – (the testator ) – had no blood relation . To ensure that Ray's land would not escheat to the Crown , in March 1860, his trustees presented a petition to the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain to create an Act of Parliament which would legally allow Arthur Lupton of Potternewton Lodge undivided moiety, i.e.
76-518: A state of abeyance between these. Baronets , while holders of hereditary titles, as such are not peers and not entitled to stand for election in the House of Lords. Knights , dames and holders of other non-hereditary orders, decorations, and medals are also not peers. The following tables only show peerages, still in existence. For lists of every peerage created at a particular rank, including extinct, dormant, and abeyant peerages, see: Each peer
95-507: Is listed only by their highest English title. Peers known by a higher title in one of the other peerages are shown in blue, and peers with more than one title of the same rank in the Peerage of England are shown in orange. Subsidiary title Subsidiary title Moiety title In law, a moiety title is the ownership of part of a property. The word derives from Old French moitié , "half" (the word has
114-660: The 5th Earl was created Marquess of Abergavenny in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1876. The Barony descended with the Earldom and then also the Marquessate (both of which were limited to heirs male) until 1938 when the 3rd Marquess died leaving no surviving sons but two surviving daughters, whereupon the Barony fell into abeyance between them. By the principle of moiety title , the heirs of those daughters –
133-501: The Norman Conquest of 1066. The barony by writ was first created in 1392 for Sir William de Beauchamp , a younger son of the 11th Earl of Warwick . This creation passed to his son, who succeeded as 2nd Baron , and who was subsequently created Earl of Worcester . On his death, the Earldom of Worcester became extinct, but the Barony passed to his daughter, who by modern doctrine succeeded as 3rd Baroness . She died in 1447 when
152-410: The 6th Marquess Camden and the 23rd Baron Hastings – are the co-heirs to one half of the Barony each, and neither has petitioned for the title to be settled upon one or the other (cf. Baron Arlington ). Dates below are the dates when they possessed Abergavenny. Co-heirs: The succession to the notional male-line Barony of Bergavenny as it was generally assumed to be at the time was as follows: On
171-437: The Barony descended to her son, who succeeded as 4th Baron . In 1450, Sir Edward Nevill , widower of the 3rd Baroness, was summoned to Parliament as Lord Bergavenny. It has been assumed that this summons was intended to be in the right of his wife, but as she was already dead and the Barony was already vested in her son by Nevill, by modern doctrine this served to create a new Barony by writ. This second creation merged with
190-477: The English peerage are, in descending order, duke , marquess , earl , viscount , and baron . While most newer English peerages descend only in the male line, many of the older ones (particularly older baronies) can descend through females. Such peerages follow the old English inheritance law of moieties so all daughters (or granddaughters through the same root) stand as co-heirs, so some such titles are in such
209-593: The Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain . There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total. English Peeresses obtained their first seats in the House of Lords under the Peerage Act 1963 from which date until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 all Peers of England could sit in the House of Lords . The ranks of
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#1732791779341228-501: The death of the 5th Marquess of Abergavenny in 2000, the pretence that the Barony of Bergavenny descended to heirs male was finally dropped, and so the 6th Marquess of Abergavenny does not claim to hold it. Cracroft's Peerage: Peerage of England The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year,
247-423: The death of the 7th Earl (and 14th and 12th Baron) in 1762. The wrongful assumption that the Barony descended to heirs male continued, and this pattern (heirs general being deprived of their rightful title and heirs male being summoned to Parliament, with a new title being created in the process) was repeated several times, resulting in the fourth to seventh creations. The fourth and fifth creations became extinct on
266-423: The death of the first holder of each, who both died without heirs, and the sixth became abeyant in 1811. The provenance of the third creation is unclear. None of these new creations were recognised as such at the time. The last creation, and the only one in the Peerage of Great Britain, came in 1724, in favour of William Nevill . His son, who succeeded as 2nd Baron , was created Earl of Abergavenny in 1784, and
285-468: The first creation in 1476, when the 1st Baron (of the second creation) died and his son, the aforementioned 4th Baron of the first creation, also became 2nd Baron of the second creation. In 1587, on the death of the 6th Baron (of the first creation) and 4th Baron (of the second creation), by modern doctrine both Baronies descended to his daughter, Mary, Lady Fane , wife of Sir Thomas Fane , who thus became de jure 7th and 5th Baroness. The title (for it
304-404: The other owner(s). Some finance institutions do not offer loans for properties on moiety titles as security. Moiety is a Middle English word for one of two equal parts under the feudal system . Thus on the death of a feudal baron or lord of the manor without a male heir (the eldest of whom would inherit all his estates by the custom of male primogeniture ) but with daughters as heiresses,
323-584: The rights of a mesne lord of the manor of Potternewton, and not the exclusive ownership of a lord paramount . Not only landholdings but also the holding of offices of state could devolve by moiety. In the Royal Court of the United Kingdom , one moiety of the ancient office of Lord Great Chamberlain is a hereditary office of the Cholmondeley family. This hereditary office came into
342-481: The same meaning in modern French ), from Latin medietas ("middle"), from medius . In English law , it relates to parsing aspects of ownership and liability in all forms of property. In the Australian system of land title, it typically applies to maisonettes or attached cottages whereby the owner owns a share of the total land on the title and leases a certain portion of the land back for themselves from
361-495: Was believed at the time only to be one Barony) was claimed by Edward Nevill , the heir male of the 4th and 2nd Baron, and in 1604 he was summoned to Parliament as Lord Bergavenny. As he was not entitled to either of the existing Baronies, this served to create a further Barony by Writ. By modern doctrine, the first and second creations descended to the Earls of Westmorland , heirs of the 7th and 5th Baroness, until both became abeyant on
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