On his death the barony of Willoughby de Eresby fell into abeyance between his sisters Lady Priscilla and Georgiana, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, who also jointly inherited the office of Lord Great Chamberlain ( the abeyance was terminated in 1780 in favour of Priscilla ; see the Baron Willoughby de Eresby for later history of this title ).

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.

Thereafter, the barony of Willoughby de Eresby has been associated with the senior share of the Lord Great Chamberlainship.

On the death of his son, the two baronies ( the recognised barony of Willoughby de Broke and the de jure barony of Latimer ) fell into abeyance.

Second in line to the barony is the present holder's grandson Thomas Michael Jonathan Willoughby ( b. 2007 )

* Baron Willoughby de Eresby, a barony by writ in the peerage of England, dating to 1313

* Baron Willoughby de Broke, a barony by writ in the peerage of England since 1491

Lord Brooke never married and on his death in 1628 the barony of Willoughby de Broke was passed on to his sister Margaret.

His other barony ( Willoughby de Broke ) was inherited by his sister Margaret who married Sir Richard Verney.

A descendant, Sir Gilbert John Heathcote, 5th Baronet ( 1795 – 1867 ), was created Baron Aveland in 1856 ; and his son Gilbert Henry, who in 1888 inherited from his mother the barony of Willoughby de Eresby, became 1st Earl of Ancaster in 1892.

The title of " Baron Middleton, of Middleton in the county of Warwick ", was created in 1711 by Queen Anne as a hereditary barony in the Peerage of Great Britain for Thomas Willoughby, 2nd Baronet, of Wollaton in the County of Nottingham ( 1670 – 1729 ).

Second in line to the barony is his grandson Thomas Michael Jonathan Willoughby ( b. 2007 )

On his death the earldom and barony of Aveland became extinct, while he was succeeded in the ancient barony of Willoughby de Eresby by his only daughter Nancy Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, who also succeeded him as joint Lord Great Chamberlain.

He left one daughter and sole-heiress Grace de Tracy who married John de Sudeley, They had two children: Ralph de Sudeley ( d. 1192 ), the eldest, who became his father's heir, and Sir William II " de Tracy " ( d. post 1172 ), who inherited his mother's barony of Bradninch and assumed her family name in lieu of his patronymic.

During the First Crusade Petra was occupied by Baldwin I of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and formed the second fief of the barony of Al Karak ( in the lordship of Oultrejordain ) with the title Château de la Valée de Moyse or Sela.

The bishop's heir, Robert de Mowbray, rebelled against William Rufus and his vast barony was declared forfeit.

His mother, Marie Françoise de Pesnel who died when Charles de Secondat was seven, was a female inheritor of a large monetary inheritance who brought the title of barony of La Brède to the Secondat family.

William II gave the barony of Bedford to Paine de Beauchamp who built a new, strong castle.

Feudal landholders were entitled to style themselves baron if they were nobles ; a roturier ( commoner ) could only be a seigneur de la baronnie ( lord of the barony ).

Lord Albemarle is also in remainder to the ancient barony of de Clifford as the great-great-great-great-grandson the Hon.

Roger de Lacy's son, Gilbert, laid claim to the barony but was ignored.

As with the de Lacys before, Pain probably used Ludlow as caput baroniae, the " head " or chief possession of his barony.

Gilbert de Lacy came to England to appeal to Stephen, pressing his claim to the barony.

Hugh de Lacy succeeded his brother to the barony in 1162 after his brother died.

When Hugh de Lacy died in Ireland in 1186, his oldest son, Walter, was still under age, so the castle remained in custodianship and the barony was taken into royal care.

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 of ' de Ros of Hamlake, Truibut and Belvoir ' ( sometimes spelled Ros, Roos or de Roos ) was created by Simon de Montfort with a writ of summons to the House of Lords for Robert de Ros ( 1223 – 1285 ) in 1264.

Gilles de Rais, a Laval and comrade in arms of Joan of Arc, was executed without an heir, so the barony passed successively to the families of Tournemine, Annebaut and Gondi.

William re-granted the barony to Juhel de Totnes, formerly feudal baron of Totnes.

From early 1816, she and Pergami went on a cruise around the Mediterranean, visiting Napoleon's former palace on Elba, and Sicily, where Pergami obtained the Order of Malta and a barony.

His son was allowed to inherit it in 1678 by a bill of Parliament, and the barony and earldom remained united until the death of the eighth earl, when the earldom became extinct, and the barony went to George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Tuchet.

Katherine's son George inherited both the barony and the dukedom, but upon his death the dukedom became extinct and the barony went into abeyance.

When his son died at the age of eight, the barony of Burgh ( according to modern law ) went into abeyance between the daughters.

At Louisa's death, the barony went to Eva Mary Foley, upon whose death the barony fell into abeyance.

Upon her death, the barony went to her nephew Anthony Gueterbock, who is the present holder.

The two titles remained united until the death of the fourth earl, when the earldom went to a male heir, while the barony went to a female heir, Amelia.

The abeyance was terminated for Sir Francis Dashwood, but at his death the barony again went into abeyance.

In May 2011, Mereworth went to court to attempt to force the House of Lords to issue him a Writ of Summons allowing him to sit and vote in the House by virtue of the Letters Patent issued in the creation of the barony.

The barony went either abeyant, dormant or extinct and the other titles extinct.

Jean de Laval went on to bequeath his barony to Anne de Montmorency.

After two female heirs in the 17th century, the barony of Norreys went to the family of Bertie, and its holder, the 5th Baron Norreys became Earl of Abingdon in 1682.

The family first established themselves in the barony of Carbury and went on to become Lords of Lower Connacht ( Íochtar Connacht ), modern-day County Sligo.