For example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.

Until his death, the 14th Earl was one of the seven co-heirs to the Barony of Grey de Ruthyn.

Lord Grey de Ruthyn claimed the Barony in right of his grandmother Elizabeth, daughter of the second Baron Hastings by his first wife.

In 1871 the Baronies of Botreaux, Hungerford, Moleyns and Hastings were called out of abeyance in favour of Edith, Countess of Loudoun ( but not the Barony of Grey de Ruthyn, which was called out of abeyance in 1885 in favour of a different heir ).

On the Duke's death later that year, the Barony of Lucas, along with the Marquessate of Grey, passed to this granddaughter ( by now the wife of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke ), who became 2nd Marchioness Grey and 4th Baroness Lucas of Crudwell.

On her death, the Earldom of de Grey and the Barony of Lucas passed under their respective remainders to her nephew, the 3rd Baron Grantham, who became 2nd Earl de Grey and 6th Baron Lucas.

On his death, the Earldom of de Grey passed to his nephew, the 2nd Earl of Ripon, and the Barony passed to his daughter, Anne, Countess Cowper ( widow of the 6th Earl Cowper ), who became 7th Baroness Lucas.

On Lord Wilton's death in 1804 the Barony of Grey de Wilton became extinct as he had no sons while the Egerton Baronetcy was passed on to a distant relative ( see Grey Egerton Baronets ).

His direct male descendants ended in 1387 in Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny, but a cousin, Edward Nevill, 8th Baron Bergavenny ( d. 1622 ), was confirmed in the Barony in 1604.

This continued down to 1840 when the Barony of Dublin City was separated from the Barony of Dublin.

The colonists tried again in 1605 with the same result, but a third attempt in 1607 was more successful and in due course Stornoway became a Burgh of Barony.

His elder son, Sir Thomas Cecil, who inherited the Barony of Burghley on his death, was later created Earl of Exeter.

Within the walls of Verulam, which he took for the name of his Barony, the essayist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon built a refined small house that was thoroughly described by the 17th century diarist John Aubrey.

It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford.

( As a male-line descendant of Charles Lyttelton, Lyttelton was in remainder to both the Viscountcy Cobham and the Barony of Lyttelton.

For this act, he was rewarded with a portion of land which had been forfeited by the Comyns at Dalserf and later the Barony and lands of Cadzow, which in time would become the town of Hamilton.

His titles were declared forfeit after his death by King Henry VII, but his son, the 1st Earl of Surrey, was later restored as 2nd Duke ( the Barony of Howard, however, remains forfeit ).

Whitefield had grandiose plans, and one of them was for a school for Negro children to be established on his tract of called the Barony of Nazareth.

The Barony of Rotselaar passed into the hands of the powerful House of Croÿ in 1516, to be added to the Margraviate of Aarschot, which was later elevated to the Duchy of Aarschot in 1533.

They had three daughters during a firm and happy marriage: Mary Irene, who inherited her father's Barony of Ravensdale and was created a life peer in her own right ; Cynthia, who became the first wife of politician Sir Oswald Mosley ; and Alexandra Naldera (" Baba "), who married Edward " Fruity " Metcalfe, the best friend, best man and equerry of Edward VIII.

The Barony of Ravensdale was inherited by his eldest daughter Mary and is today held by Cynthia's son Nicholas Mosley.

Before 1226 the Barony of Kendal was connected to the Earldom or Honour of Lancaster while that of Westmorland was part of the Earldom of Carlisle.

Although von Gloeden claimed to be a minor German aristocrat from Mecklenburg, the von Gloeden family and its heirs have always insisted that no such person existed in their family records and his claim to The Barony von Gloeden was without warrant ; the barony became extinct in 1885 with the death of Baron Falko von Gloeden.

The Barony of 1830 became extinct on his death, while he was succeeded in the Barony of 1860 according to the special remainder by his younger brother William Brougham.

He was attainted in Ireland in 1691, and the Barony of Strabane forfeited, but his brother Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn, obtained a reversal of the attainder and recovered in 1692.

By 1670 a Crown Charter united the estates as the Burgh and Barony of Greenock with the exception of Cartsburn, which in 1669 became a distinct Barony with Burgh of Barony of Crawfurdsdyke or Cartsdyke.

An exception was Methil's sister station of Barony, situated in central Ayrshire.

His son, the third earl, was created Baron Audley of Hely on June 3, 1633 by letters patent, with the precedence of his grandfather, in an attempt to restore to him the original Barony of Audley.

However, this was deemed insufficient to do so ; a bill was passed in Parliament in 1678 which allowed him to inherit the original Barony despite the attainder.

However, this was considered insufficient, legally, until a bill was passed by Parliament in 1678 allowing him to inherit the original Barony of Audley.

The Earl of Devon has not inherited the original Barony of Courtenay or the Viscountcy of Courtenay of Powderham ( 1762 – 1835 ); nevertheless, his heir is styled Lord Courtenay by courtesy.

The original Barony of Desmond in the province of Munster was held by descendants of Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Lord of O ' Connelloe.

* Keith Marischal House, site of the original Barony of Keith, held by the family until the 18th c.

The village also gives its name to the Barony of Clogher, one of the original four baronies of County Tyrone.

The Barony De La Warr ( but not West ) was eventually re-created in the person of William West, the erstwhile poisoner, and the new creation was permitted the original precedence.

** The Court of Private Land Claims rules that James Reavis's claim to Barony of Arizona is " wholly fictitious and fraudulent ".

The title of Duke of Newcastle is extinct since 1988 ; however the title of Earl of Lincoln is still extant within the family due to a very distant relative, while the Barony of Ogle is in abeyance, as there is more than one person who has a legal right to claim the title.

She was thus heir to the Barony of Cobham ( if the forfeiture were reversed ), co-heiress to the Barony of Burgh, to the Barony of Braye, and could claim to be co-heiress to several more doubtful titles, such as the Barony of Cobham of Sterborough.

No final decision regarding the Barony was made at the time, but both families continued to claim the title.

On the death of the 5th Marquess of Abergavenny in 2000, the pretense 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.

Some sources ( e. g. Graham ), claim it is the third village to bear the name, perhaps erroneously assuming that the seventeenth century destruction of the nearby Barony of Culbin by shifting sands resulted in an earlier relocation.