Feudal barony of Appleby

Appleby Castle, caput of the feudal barony of Appleby

The feudal barony of Appleby (or Honour of Appleby) was a feudal barony with its caput at Appleby Castle in Appleby, Westmorland, England.

Descent

Barons of Burgh-by-Sands

The barony was formed from lands formerly controlled in the 12th century by the feudal barons of Burgh-by-Sands (alias "Brough") in Cumberland,[1] namely the families successively of de Trevers, Engaine, de Morville and de Lucy.[2]

Vipont

Arms of Vipont: Gules, six annulets or. Adopted at the start of the age of heraldry (circa 1200-1215). These arms were later quartered by the Clifford family[3]

Clifford

Arms of Clifford: Checky or and azure, a fesse gules[12] These are the arms borne by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (c. 1274–1314), as recorded in the Caerlaverock Roll of 1300

Following the acquisition of the whole of the feudal barony of Appleby by Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (1274–1314), it descended thenceforth in the Clifford family, together with the feudal barony of Skipton and the barony by writ of de Clifford.

Sources

Further reading

References

  1. Sanders, p.103
  2. Sanders, pp.23-4, Burgh-by-Sands
  3. See for example File:Cliffords coat of arms in Skipton 01.JPG the heraldry on the chest tomb of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558-1605) in Holy Trinity Church, Skipton
  4. Charters of grant published in Nicholson, J., & Burn, R., History and Antiquities of Westmorland and Cumberlanf, Vol.1, pp.267-8
  5. Sanders, p.104, note 1
  6. Sanders, p.133, Old Wardon
  7. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.194, pedigree of Clifford
  8. Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.194: The father of the 1st Baron de Clifford (d.1190) was Richard FitzPontz (d. circa 1138), the son of Pontz, son of William Count of Eu, a son of Richard I of Normandy (933-996) by his wife Gunnor
  9. Sanders, p.104
  10. Sanders, p.143
  11. Sanders, p.104
  12. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.262
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