Forfeit Baronies of England

In or before May 1322 John Giffard 2nd Baron Giffard Brimpsfield [aged 34] was executed by King Edward II of England [aged 38]. Baron Giffard Brimpsfield forfeit.

On 27th October 1326 Hugh "Elder" Despencer 1st Earl Winchester [aged 65] was hanged, drawn and quartered at Bristol, Gloucestershire [Map]. Earl Winchester, Baron Despencer forfeit as a result of attainder.

On 24th November 1326 Hugh "Younger" Despencer 1st Baron Despencer [aged 40] was hanged, drawn and quartered in Hereford [Map]. Baron Despencer forfeit.

Simon of Reading was also hanged, drawn and quartered the same day.

Isabella of France Queen Consort England [aged 31] and Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March [aged 39] were present - see Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke.

On 29th November 1330 Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March [aged 43] was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn [Map] accused of assuming royal power and of various other high misdemeanours. His body hung at the gallows for two days and nights. He was buried at Christ Church, Greyfriars [Map]. Isabella of France Queen Consort England [aged 35] subsequently requested his burial at Wigmore Abbey [Map] and, after firstly refusing, King Edward III of England [aged 18] allowed his remains to be removed to Wigmore Abbey [Map]. Earl March, Baron Mortimer of Wigmore forfeit.

On 7th January 1400 at Cirencester, Gloucestershire [Map] Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley [aged 40] was beheaded by the townspeople following an unsuccessful attempt to seize the town. Baron Lumley forfeit.

Thomas Holland 1st Duke Surrey [aged 26] was beheaded. He had to forfeit the honours and estates he had gained after the arrests of Gloucester and Arundel: Duke Surrey extinct. He retained those he had received before: His brother Edmund [aged 16] succeeded 4th Earl Kent, 3rd Baron Holand, 8th Baron Wake of Liddell. He was buried, or re-buried, at his foundation Mount Grace Priory, North Yorkshire [Map].

John Montagu 3rd Earl Salisbury [aged 50] was captured, tried and beheaded. Earl Salisbury, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu, Baron Monthermer forfeit.

Bernard Brocas [aged 46] was captured.

On 23rd July 1403 ...

Thomas Percy 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 60] was beheaded. Earl Worcester extinct.

Richard Venables 9th Baron Kinderton [aged 38] was beheaded.

Richard Vernon 11th Baron Shipbrook [aged 48] was beheaded. Baron Shipbrook forfeit.

On 19th February 1408 Thomas Rokeby's [aged 28] force of Yorkshire levies defeated the Percy army during the Battle of Bramham Moor bringing to an end the Percy rebellion.

Henry Percy 1st Earl of Northumberland [aged 66] was killed. His body was afterwards hanged, drawn and quartered, his head being sent to London bridge and his quarters to diverse places. Possibly captured hanged, drawn and quartered after the battle. Earl of Northumberland, Baron Percy of Alnwick and Baron Percy of Topcliffe forfeit.

Thomas Bardolf 5th Baron Bardolf [aged 38] was killed. Baron Bardolf of Wormegay in Norfolk had been forfeited in 1406 when Thomas Bardolf 5th Baron Bardolf was declared a traitor. It was restored on the 19th of July 1408 to his two daughters Anne Bardolf Baroness Cobham Sternborough [aged 18] and Joan Bardolf [aged 17] and their husbands William Clifford [aged 33] and William Phelip [aged 25] respectively.

The Abbot of Hailes Abbey [Map] was executed following the battle since he was wearing armour. Bishop Griffin Yonge [aged 38], Bishop of Bangor, was captured, but wearing his vestments, he avoided execution.

On 3rd April 1461 Thomas Courtenay 6th or 14th Earl Devon [aged 29] was beheaded at York [Map] following his capture at the Battle of Towton. he was attainted; Earl Devon, Baron Courtenay, Baron Okehampton forfeit.

On 17th August 1469 Humphrey Stafford 1st Earl Devon [aged 30], having escaped after the Battle of Edgecote Moor, was captured and executed by a mob at Bridgwater, Somerset [Map]. He was buried at Glastonbury Abbey [Map]. Earl Devon, Baron Stafford of Southwick forfeit.

On 19th March 1470 Robert Welles 8th Baron Willoughby 8th Baron Welles was beheaded at Doncaster [Map]. He was buried at Whitefriars Doncaster [Map]. Baron Welles forfeit. His sister Joan succeeded 9th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby. Richard Hastings Baron Willoughby [aged 37] by marriage Baron Willoughby de Eresby. He, Hastings, a favourite of King Edward IV of England [aged 27], younger brother of Edward's great friend William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings [aged 39].

On 18th October 1470 John "Butcher of England" Tiptoft 1st Earl of Worcester [aged 43] was beheaded at Tower Green, Tower of London [Map]. Earl Worcester, Baron Tiptoft forfeit.

On 28th June 1497 James Tuchet 7th Baron Audley, 4th Baron Tuchet [aged 34] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. He was buried at Blackfriars Church Holborn. His head was placed on a spike at London Bridge [Map]. Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire and Baron Tuchet forfeit.

On 28th November 1499 Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick [aged 24] was executed at Tower Hill [Map]. Earl Warwick, Baron Montagu, Baron Montagu, Baron Monthermer forfeit.

Documentation held in Spain apparently describes Catherine of Aragon's [aged 13] parents Ferdinand II King Aragon [aged 47] and Isabella Queen Castile [aged 48] expressing concern that Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick was a potential claimant to throne, and being reluctant for their daughter to marry Arthur Prince of Wales [aged 13] whilst there was a threat to his accession causing King Henry VII of England and Ireland [aged 42] to use Perkin Warbreck's [deceased] attempted escape with Edward "Last Plantagenet" York 17th Earl Warwick as a means to an end.

On 30th April 1513 Edmund Pole 3rd Duke of Suffolk [aged 42] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map] on the instruction of King Henry VIII after having been imprisoned for seven years. Duke Suffolk, Marquess Suffolk and Earl Suffolk, Baron Pole forfeit.

He, Edmund, was the son of Elizabeth York Duchess Suffolk, sister of Kings Edward IV and Richard III, and George, Duke of Clarence. He, arguably, had a better claim to the throne of England than King Henry VII if King Edward IV's children were illegitimate, and George's children barred from the succession as a consequence of George'a attainder although Anne St Leger's [aged 37] claim better since she descended from an older sister Anne.

He, Edmund, had been given to King Henry VII of England and Ireland as part of the treaty of Malus Intercursus aka Evil Treaty with the condition that he not be executed. King Henry VII in his will instructed his son King Henry VIII to have him executed; an act which attracted the criticism of Montaigne in Chapter 7 of his Essays.

On 17th May 1521 Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham [aged 43] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. Duke of Buckingham, Earl Stafford and Baron Stafford forfeit.

He was executed for no specific reason other than his having a significant amount of Plantagenet blood and was, therefore, considered a threat by Henry VIII [aged 29]. He was posthumously attainted by Act of Parliament on 31 July 1523, disinheriting his children. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Britford [Map].

On 29th June 1537 John Hussey 1st Baron Hussey of Sleaford [aged 72] was beheaded at Lincoln, Lincolnshire [Map]. Baron Hussey of Sleaford forfeit.

On 30th June 1537 Thomas Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Templehurst [aged 70] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. In 1539 he was postumously attainted; Baron Darcy of Darcy aka Templehurst forfeit.

On 9th December 1538 at Tower Hill [Map]:

Edward Neville [aged 67] was beheaded

Henry Courtenay 1st Marquess Exeter [aged 42] was beheaded with a sword. Marquess Exeter, Earl Devon, Earl Devon, Baron Okehampton forfeit as a consequence of his attainder.

Henry Pole 1st Baron Montagu [aged 46] was beheaded

On 28th July 1540 Thomas Cromwell [aged 55] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. Earl Essex, Baron Cromwell of Wimbledon in Surrey forfeit. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map].

On 28th July 1540 Walter Hungerford 1st Baron Hungerford Heytesbury [aged 37] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. He was attainted; Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury forfeit. He, together with his chaplain, a Wiltshire clergyman named William Bird, Rector of Fittleton and Vicar of Bradford, who was suspected of sympathising with the pilgrims of grace of the north of England, was attainted by act of parliament. Hungerford was charged with employing Bird in his house as chaplain, knowing him to be a traitor; with ordering another chaplain, Hugh Wood, and one Dr. Maudlin to practise conjuring to determine the king's length of life, and his chances of victory over the northern rebels; and finally with committing offences forbidden by the 1533 Buggery Act.

On 29th June 1541 Thomas Fiennes 9th Baron Dacre Gilsland [aged 26] was hanged at Tyburn [Map]. He was buried at St Sepulchre without Newgate Church. Baron Dacre Gilsland, Baron Multon of Gilsland forfeit. His son Gregory [aged 2] would be restored to the title in 1558.

Note. Hall's Chronicle says strangled.

On 20th March 1549 Thomas Seymour 1st Baron Seymour [aged 41] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map]. Baron Seymour of Sudeley forfeit.

Catherine Willoughby Duchess Suffolk [aged 29] became guardian to his daughter Mary Seymour.

On 23rd February 1554 Henry Grey 1st Duke of Suffolk [aged 37] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. Duke Suffolk, Marquess Dorset, Earl Huntingdon, Baron Ferrers of Groby, Baron Harington, Baron Bonville forfeit.

Dean Hugh Weston [aged 49] acted as Confessor.

On 2nd June 1572 Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk [aged 36] was executed for his involvement in the Ridolphi Plot. He was buried at St Peter ad Vincula Church, Tower of London [Map]. Duke Norfolk, Earl Surrey, Baron Mowbray, Baron Segrave forfeit.

On 14th April 1589 Philip Howard 13th or 20th Earl of Arundel [aged 31] was condemned to death and attainted. Earl Arundel, Baron Arundel forfeit. Elizabeth I never signed the death warrant; Howard was never told. Henry Stanley 4th Earl of Derby [aged 57] was present. Christopher Wray [aged 65] was one of the judges.

On 25th February 1601 Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex [aged 35] was beheaded at Tower Green, Tower of London [Map] as a consequence of his involvement in the Essex Rebellion. Earl Essex, Viscount Hereford, Baron Bourchier and Baron Ferrers of Chartley forfeit. He was the last person to be executed at the Tower of London. It isn't clear whether his other titles Viscount Hereford, Baron Ferrers of Chartley and Baron Bourchier were forfeit.

In June and July 1603 Griffin Markham 13th Baron Latimer of Braybrooke [aged 33] took part in both the Main and Bye Plots for which he was convicted (1603) and sentenced to death. In 1605 he was reprieved and although his attainder appears to have remained.

On 14th May 1631 Mervyn Tuchet 2nd Earl Castlehaven [aged 38] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. His English titles Baron Audley of Heighley in Staffordshire and Baron Tuchet were forfeited as a result of his attainder. His son James [aged 14] succeeded to his Irish titles 3rd Earl Castlehaven, 3rd Baron Audley of Orier in England.

He was executed for the unnatural crime of sodomy in accordance with the 1533 Buggery Act, committed with his page Laurence (or Florence) FitzPatrick, who confessed to the crime and was executed; and assisting Giles Browning (alias Broadway), who was also executed, in the rape of his wife Anne, Countess of Castlehaven [aged 51], in which Lord Castlehaven was found to have participated by restraining her.

On 12th May 1641 Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford [aged 48] was beheaded at Tower Hill [Map]. Earl Strafford, Viscount Wentworth, Baron Wentworth, Baronet Wentworth of Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire forfeit. His execution was attended by an enormous crowd.

Wenceslaus Hollar [aged 33]. Engraving of the execution of Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford marked as C with James Ussher [aged 60] marked as A.

Before 15th July 1685 James Scott 1st Duke Monmouth 1st Duke Buccleuch [aged 36] was attainted; Duke Monmouth, Earl Doncaster, Baron Scott of Tynedale, Duke Buccleuch, Earl Dalkeith, Baron Scott of Whitchester and Eskdale forfeit. The Act of Parliament Act of Attainder, 1 Ja. 2. c. 2: "Whereas James Duke of Monmouth has in an hostile Manner Invaded this Kingdom and is now in open Rebellion Laying War against the King contrary to the Duty of his Allegiance, Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this Parliament assembled and by the Authorities of the same, That the said James Duke of Monmouth Stand and be Convicted and Attainted of High-Treason and that he suffer Paines of Death and Incurr all Forfeitures as a Traitor Convicted and Attainted of High Treason."

In 1715 William Widdrington 4th Baron Widdrington [aged 37] took part in the Jacobite Rising with two of his brothers, Charles Widdrington and Peregrine Widdrington; all were taken prisoner after the 1715 Battle of Preston. He was convicted of high treason and condemned to death, and his titles and estates were forfeit. He was reprieved after an intervention by his wife, Catherine Graham. Baron Widdrington of Blankney in Lincolnshire forfeit