Baron Camoys
Baron Camoys is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England, both times by writ. The first creation came in 1313 when Ralph de Camoys (d.1336) was summoned to Parliament on 26 November 1313 as Lord Camoys. [1] This first creation is considered to have become extinct on the death of his son, (by his first wife Margaret de Braose, daughter of William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose (d.1291)) Thomas de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys, in 1372. Thomas had been predeceased by his son Ralph (born c. 1372).
The second creation came in 1383 when Sir Thomas de Camoys (d.1421), (1st cousin once removed of Thomas de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys (d.1372) of the first creation) was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Camoys. He was the son of Sir John Camoys (son of Ralph de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (d.1336) by his second wife Elizabeth de Rogate)[2] by his second wife Elizabeth Latimer.[3] Thomas de Camoys was a soldier and notably commanded the left wing of the English Army at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 during the Hundred Years' War.
He was succeeded by his grandson, the second Baron. He died in 1426 at an early age and on his death the barony fell into abeyance between his sisters Margaret and Alianora. The peerage remained in abeyance for the next 413 years. However, in 1839 Thomas Stonor managed to claim the barony as a descendant of Margaret de Camoys, and became the third Baron. He had previously represented Oxford in the House of Commons and later held office as a Lord-in-Waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) in the Liberal administrations of Lord John Russell, Lord Palmerston and William Ewart Gladstone as well as in the coalition government of Lord Aberdeen. He was succeeded by his grandson, the fourth Baron, who served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the Liberal governments of William Gladstone and Lord Rosebery. As of 2010[update] the title is held by his great-grandson, the seventh Baron, who succeeded his father in 1976. He notably served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1998 and 2000.
The ancestral seat of the Stonor family is Stonor Park, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
[edit] Barons Camoys, First creation (1313)
- Ralph de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (d. 1336)
- Thomas de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys (d. 1372)
[edit] Barons Camoys, Second creation (1383)
- Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys (d. 1419/21)
- Hugh de Camoys, 2nd Baron Camoys (1413–1426) (abeyant 1426)
- Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys (1797–1881) (abeyance terminated 1839)
- Francis Robert Stonor, 4th Baron Camoys (1856–1897)
- Ralph Francis Julian Stonor, 5th Baron Camoys (1884–1968)
- Sherman Stonor, 6th Baron Camoys (1913–1976)
- Ralph Thomas Campion George Sherman Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys (b. 1940)
The heir apparent is the present holder's son the Hon. Ralph William Stonor (b. 1974)
[edit] References
- ^ Source: www.thepeerage.com, a credible, if secondary, source quoting GEC Complete Peerage as a primary source. A less reliable source, Leigh Rayment's Peerage states the first creation to have occurred in 1264 when Ralph de Camoys (d.pre March 1277), the grandfather of Ralph (d.1336), was summoned to Parliament as Lord Camoys
- ^ thepeerage,com
- ^ Some sources which recognise a first creation in 1264 and which recognise neither the 1313 nor 1383 summonses as new creations, refer to Thomas Camoys (d.1421) as the "5th Baron Camoys" (for example, The Dictionary of National Biography). However, the 1383 barony is according to most sources (among them Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage) considered as a new creation.
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source?][better source needed]
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