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    The feudal barony of Stafford was a feudal barony the caput of which was at Stafford Castle in Staffordshire, England. The feudal barons were subsequently...
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    kingdom of England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was the highest degree of feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam (Latin for "by barony"), under...
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  • by the example of the feudal barony of Stafford as described in a survey of knight's fees made in 1166 and recorded in The Black Book of the Exchequer...
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    Scotland Bastard feudalism Cestui que English feudal barony Feudal baron Feudal duties List of feudal wars 12th–14th century Investiture Lehnsmann Majorat...
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  • holding titles of nobility of all degrees. The term superseded the term baronage used of the feudal era. A barony is a rank or dignity of a man or a woman...
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    I de Stafford (d.c.1138), eldest son and heir, 2nd feudal baron of Stafford. For descent from him see feudal barony of Stafford. Alan de Stafford Roger...
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    barony on account of his poverty. He was born on 18 September 1501 at Penshurst Place in Kent, the only son and heir of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham...
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    Book of 1086 it was the seat of the powerful Anglo-Norman Stafford family (originally de Tosny, later via a female line de Stafford), feudal barons of Stafford...
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    The feudal barony of Dunster was an English feudal barony with its caput at Dunster Castle in Somerset. During the reign of King Henry I (1100–1135) the...
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  • de Stafford (c. 1039 – c. 1100) (alias Robert de Tosny/Toeni, etc.) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, a member of the House of Tosny and the first feudal baron...
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    the feudal barony of Barnstaple was a large feudal barony with its caput at the town of Barnstaple in north Devon, England. It was one of eight feudal baronies...
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  • of a state in the Holy Roman Empire, enjoying extensive freedom but still subject to the crown. The difference between a feudal barony and a barony by...
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  • Dolton. His holdings later became the property of the feudal barony of Gloucester, the Devonshire caput of which was Winkleigh. He is apparently the same...
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    Clare in Suffolk, caput of his feudal barony, and at Tonbridge in Kent. Some contemporaneous and later sources called him Earl of Clare, though many modern...
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    ancient feudal barony of Berkeley, which was dependent on landholdings. It was assumed (according to a very unusual legal rationale) that the barony by writ...
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    After the lapse of the suzerainty of the Earls of Shrewsbury in 1102, the manor was held by the barony of Caus until the end of feudal tenures. The road...
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    Baron Camville (category Baronies in the Peerage of England)
    Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford of Clifton (born post 1301, died 1381), the second son of Edmund Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford of Stafford Castle in Staffordshire...
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    holding the title of Duke of Norfolk, is also Earl of Arundel, Earl of Surrey and Earl of Norfolk, as well as holding six baronies. The Arundel title...
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    p.3 Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327, Oxford, 1960, p.15 "Baron Stafford of Clifton" not mentioned in The...
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    1226), feudal baron of Little Easton, son of Godfrey III, Count of Louvain (1142–1190), by his 2nd marriage, and half-brother of Henry I, Duke of Brabant...
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    Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke (category High sheriffs of Cornwall)
    (1401–1430) of Brook, by his wife Alice Stafford, only daughter and eventual heiress of Sir Humphrey Stafford (c.1379–1442) "With the Silver Hand", of Hooke...
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    the River Exe. The Earl of Devon has not inherited the ancient and original Barony of Courtenay or the Viscountcy of Courtenay of Powderham (1762–1835);...
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    Tosny/Toeni, etc.), 1st feudal baron of Stafford, an Anglo-Norman nobleman who arrived in England during or shortly after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and was awarded...
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    virgate of land in Great Torrington; Brimblecombe; Cheldon; Muxbere; Sutton; Dolton. His holdings later became the property of the feudal barony of Gloucester...
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    feudal baron of Blagdon, Somerset, but died in his father's lifetime. His widow, Maud, whom he married before 1257, was heiress of the feudal barony of...
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    Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell (category People of the Wars of the Roses)
    lands of the baronies of Deincourt, Grey of Rotherfield, and the feudal barony of Bedale, long a possession of the Stapleton family. The arms of these...
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  • Roger de Valognes (category Year of birth unknown)
    the feudal baron of Benington. In 1136 he was a supporter of King Stephen of England's seizure of the English throne from Matilda, the daughter of the...
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    the feudal baronies of the Courtenay family, Earls of Devon, thus either of the feudal barony of Okehampton or the feudal barony of Plympton. It was held...
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    Ribald's descendant[citation needed] Geoffrey de Neville (died 1193), 2nd feudal baron of Ashby in Lincolnshire. At some time before 1176 he married Emma de...
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  • the succession of the de Stafford family of nearby Stafford Castle, feudal barons of Stafford, from the first baron Robert de Stafford (c.1039–c.1100)...
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