The king granted to this son of his the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon, which had escheated to the crown from William Capra, listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as holding that barony.

The barony escheated to the crown in 1095 when a descendent of Montbray rebelled against King William II.

* Haliburton, Berwickshire, a crown barony in the county of Berwickshire, Scotland.

Most royal burghs were either created by the crown, or upgraded from another status, such as burgh of barony.

He had a crown charter of the feudal barony of Arbuthnott 29 January 1507.

In France, his mother's barony of Mercœur was likewise elevated to the status of a princedom ( though not independent of the French crown ) in 1563, and raised to a ducal peerage in 1569.

For instance, in 1957 Lord Lyon introduced distinctive " burghal coronets " to be displayed above the arms of burghs matriculated by his office: a " coronet suitable to a burgh of barony " was a red mural crown, whereas that for a police burgh was blue in colour.

This idea was extended and refined by the English barony when they forced King John to sign Magna Carta in 1215.

Alan FitzFlaad ( d. c1114 ), a Breton knight, was granted the feudal barony of Oswestry by King Henry I who, soon after his accession, invited Alan to England with other Breton friends, and gave him forfeited lands in Norfolk and Shropshire, including some which had previously belonged to Ernoulf de Hesdin ( killed at Antioch while on crusade ) and Robert de Belleme.

The barony and regality of the Gorbals was confirmed in 1606 by a charter of King James VI, which vested Elphinstone and his descendants.

Soon after 1086 and before 1108 the King gave Kington to Henry Port, who founded a new Marcher barony in this part of the early Welsh Marches.

The barony had been in abeyance for over a century when Charlotte Boyle Walsingham ( who was later to marry Lord Henry FitzGerald, a son of the 4th Duke of Leinster ) petitioned King George III to terminate the abeyance in her favour in 1790.

) The King referred the matter to the House of Lords, which recommended that the barony remain in abeyance.

In 1677 King Charles II terminated the abeyance of the barony of Ferrers of Chartley in his favour and he became the thirteenth Baron Ferrers of Chartley.

The barony was inherited by Sir Richard's third son, Hugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys, who died a minor and a ward of the King on 18 June 1426.

In 1913 ( five years after the death of Lord Petre ) the abeyance of the ancient barony of Furnivall was terminated by the King in favour of their daughter Mary Frances Katherine Petre, who became the nineteenth Baroness Furnivall ( see the Baron Furnivall for more information ).

The feudal barony of Berkeley was created in c. 1155, when King Henry II granted the royal castle of Berkeley to Robert Fitzharding under the feudal land tenure per baroniam.

The eldest son of the 1st Earl was advanced to the barony by Writ of acceleration under King Charles I to become the 5th Baron.

He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his aforementioned younger brother, Sir Edward King, 5th Baronet, for whom the barony of Kingston was revived in 1764.

When King James died in March 1625, his successor Charles I maintained Calvert's barony but not his place on the Privy Council.

The first creation in 1670 ( along with the barony of Nonsuch and the earldom of Southampton ) was for Barbara Palmer, a mistress of King Charles II.

As mentioned above, by the time King John granted Finegal as part of his inheritance to Walter, Walter ’ s father Hugh had already sub-infeudated parts thereof to his vassals ( e. g. the Castleknock barony, granted by Hugh de Lacy to Hugh Tyrell, etc .).

It may have been conferred at the same time as the barony, since it was confirmed, together with possession of the lands of Keith, to Sir Robert Keith by a charter of King Robert the Bruce, and appears to have been held as annexed to the land by the tenure of grand serjeanty.

In 1621 King James the first, granted him a royal charter appointing him mayor of a vast territory which was enlarged into a lordship and barony of Nova Scotia ( New Scotland ); the area now known as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and part of the northern United States.

King David I granted the barony of Bothwell to David Olifard ( or Olifant ), Justiciar of Lothian, in the mid 12th century.

In King James IV's Charter of 1488 raising Paisley to the status of burgh of barony, one of the reasons cited was " the singular respect we have for the glorious confessor, Saint Mirin ".

Sir William McLellan, created 1st Lord Kirkcudbright, was the son of Sir Patrick Maclellan of Bombie, and is best remembered for an undertaking inspired by a proclamation of King James II of Scotland that promised the barony of Kirkcudbright to whoever should disperse a troublesome thief known as Black Morrow ' dead or alive '.

When King John came to the throne, he gave Ros the barony of his great-grandmother's father, Walter d ' Espec.

The castle, and the barony, remained within the Auchinleck family until 1504 when due to a failing Auchinleck male line, and the marriage of a daughter of Sir John Auchinleck to a Thomas Boswell, the estate and the title were granted to Boswell by King James IV.

In the 12th century, the island formed part of the barony of Dirleton, which was granted to the Anglo-Norman John de Vaux by King David I.

The reign of Henry II represents a reversion in power back from the barony to the monarchical state in England ; it was also to see a similar redistribution of legislative power from the Church, again to the monarchical state.

Lord Aberdare died in London on 25 February 1895, aged 79, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son from his first marriage, Henry.

The latter claimed, in right of his mother Frances Ratcliffe, daughter of Henry, third baron Fitz-walter, and second earl of Sussex, the barony of Fitz-walter, and his grandson Benjamin ( d. 1679 ), on 10 February 1670, was summoned to the House of Lords by that title.

After Juhel's son died without children, the barony was split into two, passing through the Braose and Tracy families, before being reunited under Henry de Tracy.

Herbert was succeeded by his son Henry, for whom the barony of Cherbury was revived.

The title of Baron Mulgrave in the British peerage then became extinct, though his brother Henry Phipps succeeded him in the Irish barony.

William Lyonel Vane, younger brother of Henry Vane, 9th Baron Barnard, who had succeeded to the barony of Barnard in 1891 on the death of his distant relative Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Cleveland and 8th Baron Barnard.

The barony of Paget, which could be passed on through the female line, devolved on his cousin Henry Bayly, who became the ninth Baron.

* Henry Gilbert Ralph Nevill, 3rd Marquess of Abergavenny ( 1854 – 1938 ) ( barony of Bergavenny of 1724 in abeyance since 1938 / 2000 )

Sharp also conducted genealogical research for one of his masters, Henry Willoughby, who had a claim to the barony of Willoughby de Parham, and it was through Sharp's work that Willoughby was able to take his place in the House of Lords.

The second barony was created on 17 April 1763 for her husband, the prominent Whig politician Henry Fox.

The claim to the barony of FitzWalter was passed on to the fifth Earl's heir-general Henry Mildmay, de jure fifteenth Baron.

However, he was succeeded in the barony of Barnard, according to a decision by the Committee for Privileges of the House of Lords in 1892, by his distant relative Henry de Vere Vane, who became the ninth Baron.

However, on her death in 1743 the barony again fell into abeyance, this time between the heirs of the sisters Elizabeth Knyvett ( wife of Henry Wilson ) and Lucy Knyvett ( wife firstly of Thomas Holt and secondly of John Field ), both great-granddaughters of Thomas Knyvett, younger brother of the sixth Baron.

Robert Henry Clive, second son of Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis ( see below for further history of the barony ).

On Lord Gage's death in 1791 the barony of 1780 became extinct while he was succeeded in the barony of 1790, the baronetcy and the Irish titles by his nephew Henry, the third Viscount.

The Southampton title had previously been created for Charles FitzRoy, eldest natural son of Charles II and the Duchess of Cleveland and the elder brother of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, but had become extinct in 1774 on the death of his son William FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Cleveland and 2nd Duke of Southampton, six years before the creation of the barony of Southampton.

' Arthurlie was a barony of considerable extent, however it eventually came to be purchased by Henry Dunlop Esq.

Lord Belper died at Eaton Square, Belgravia, London, on June 1880, aged 78, and was succeeded in the barony by his second but eldest surviving son, Henry.