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Baron Everingham

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Arms of Baron Everingham:- Gules, a lion rampant vair variation = crowned or[1]

Baron Everingham (aka Everyngham) is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Writ of summons to Parliament of Adam de Everingham of Laxton, Nottinghamshire, on 4 March 1309. It passed to his son Adam but fell into abeyance upon the death of his childless grandson Robert in 1371.

Ancestry

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Named after the village of Everingham, Yorkshire the de Everinghams moved to Laxton in the thirteenth century and subsequently branched out to Kiplingcotes and Sherburn and Lincolnshire. The first of the Laxton Everinghams was Robert de Everingham who married the heiress of the Birkin family[2] and in doing so brought the hereditary position of Keeper of Sherwood Forest to the family. The three generations that preceded the Barons are:-

St Michael the Archangel's Church, Laxton contains stone effigies of the family.

Baron Everingham of Laxton (1309)

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By Writ

References

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  • Nicholas, Nicholas Harris (1857). Historic Peerage of England. London: John Murray.

Notes

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  1. ^ Bernard Burke (1884), Burkes General Armory (hardback), London: Burkes, p. 334
  2. ^ a b c d e f George Edward Cokayne (1893), Complete Peerage (hardback), London: George Bell & Sons.
  3. ^ a b Bernard Burke (1883), Dormant and Extinct Peerages (hardback), London: Harrison & sons
  4. ^ a b John Caley, ed. (1806), Calendarium Inquisitionum post mortem sive Escaetarum (hardback), vol. 1, London: Record Commission
  5. ^ The Knights of Edward I (hardback), London: Harleian Society, 1929
  6. ^ Harley MS 6589, London: British Library, Harley MS 6589
  7. ^ William Arthur Shaw (1906), The Knights of England (hardback), London: Heraldry Today, p. 121
  8. ^ a b John Burke (1883), Sir Bernard A Burke (ed.), Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland, extinct, dormant and in abeyance (hardback), London: Burkes Peerage, p. 193
  9. ^ John Caley, ed. (1808), Calendarium Inquisitionum post mortem sive Escaetarum (hardback), vol. 2, London: Record Commission
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