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"A view of Okehampton Castle and town taken in the park", 1772 drawing by Francis Towne (1739–1816), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA Remains of Okehampton Castle today. The feudal barony of Okehampton was a very large feudal barony, the largest mediaeval fiefdom in the county of Devon, England, [1] whose caput was Okehampton ...
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215, surrounded by his baronage.Illustration from Cassell's History of England, 1902.. In the kingdom of England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was the highest degree of feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam (Latin for "by barony"), under which the land-holder owed the service of being one of the king's barons.
The difference between a feudal barony and a barony by writ is not a clear distinction since barons had been summoned for council before the parliaments of that later 13th century. [9] Barons who attended the Curia Regis of 1237 were undoubtedly equal in rank to the ones later summoned to the parliaments of 1246 and beyond.
Between 1133 and 1136, Richard FitzBaldwin (d. 1137) (Latinised to de Brioniis/Brionis/Bryonis), feudal baron of Okehampton, [2] built a priory on his land at Brightley, on the bank of the West Okement River, near his caput of Okehampton Castle. [3]
Feudal baronies in Devonshire; Feudal barony of Bampton; ... Feudal barony of Okehampton This page was last edited on 12 February 2017, at 20:16 (UTC). ...
Baldwin's fiefdom in Devon was the largest in that county, [3] listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as comprising 176 holdings, mostly manors or estates, except the first two listed holdings which consisted of groups of houses in Exeter and Barnstaple. [4]
Abeyant 1960, together with the Baronies of Stanley and Bortreaux 3rd Baron inherited the Barony of Botreaux 1520 and created Earl of Huntingdon , 1529 (that title passed to another branch in 1789); 14th Baron created Marquess of Hastings in 1826 (extinct 1868); the Barony of Stanley was called out of abeyance together with this barony for the ...
Life peers take precedence with other barons of the United Kingdom; they are listed separately because the only hereditary baronies created since 1965 have been subsidiary titles: Prince Andrew, Duke of York, who holds the subsidiary title of Baron Killyleagh, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, who holds the subsidiary title of Baron ...