Baron Saye and Sele
Barony of Saye and Sele | |
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Creation date | by 24 February 1447 9 August 1603 [1] |
Peerage | Peerage of England |
First holder | James Fiennes |
Present holder | Martin Fiennes |
Heir apparent | Guy Fiennes |
Remainder to | 1st baron's heirs general |
Status | Extant |
Seat(s) | Broughton Castle |
Motto | Fortem posce animum ("Put forward a stout heart") |
Baron Saye and Sele is a title in the
History
The Saye (also spelt Say) family is an ancient one. According to the
However, the history of the title has been traced to another William de Saye, who was granted lands by
William's eldest son, William II de Saye, had two daughters, one of whom, Beatrice, married
His grandson Geoffrey III de Saye was created feudal baron Saye by writ in 1313. His son Geoffrey IV de Saye, the second baron, married Lady Maud de Beauchamp, daughter of 10th Earl of Warwick. Their son William, the third baron, was knighted in 1361 and married Beatrice, daughter of Sir Thomas de Brewose (Breouse/Brewes/Braose). William died by 7 August 1375, leaving the title to their young son John, who died a few years later.[1]
The title then passed to John's sister Elizabeth, 16. She married Sir John de Falvesle, 1st Lord Falvesley. After his death she married secondly Sir William Heron, who sat in Parliament as Lord Say by right of his wife. She died in 1399 without heirs, after which the barony became abeyant among her three aunts. Idonea was married to John de Clinton, 3rd Lord de Clinton; Joan married Sir William Fiennes (died 1359); and Elizabeth married Sir Thomas de Aldoun.[3][1]
Of the three, only Joan had male issue. Her second but eldest surviving son Sir William Fiennes (died 1403) was the father of Sir Roger Fiennes, MP for Sussex and Treasurer of the Household. With the spoils of the Hundred Years' War, Sir Roger built Herstmonceux Castle. His elder son Sir Richard Fiennes was called to Parliament as 7th Lord Dacre in right of his wife, Joan Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre.[1]
The Barony of Saye and Sele is thought to have been created by letters patent in 1447 for Sir Roger's second son, James Fiennes, for his services in the Hundred Years' War. The patent creating the original barony was lost, so it was assumed that the barony was created by writ, meaning that it could descend to heirs-general, and not only heirs-male.[1][4]
However, several authorities, including Burke's Peerage, agree that the assumption was erroneous, and that the original creation was by letters patent, and thus identify the initial holder as Lordship of Saye and Sele.
His son, the second baron, was summoned to Parliament but killed at the
By 1715, all of the coheirs to the Barony of Saye and Sele had died save one; Cecil Twisleton, de jure tenth Baroness Saye and Sele. She was the daughter of the aforementioned Hon. Elizabeth, daughter of the second Viscount Saye and Sele. However, the barony was only formally called out of abeyance in favour of her great-grandson, Thomas Twisleton, who became the thirteenth Baron Saye and Sele. He was a General in the Army. His son, the fourteenth Baron, assumed the additional surnames of Fiennes and Eardley in 1825. He was succeeded by his son, the fifteenth Baron, who in his turn was succeeded by his cousin, the sixteenth Baron. In 1849 he assumed the additional surnames of
Eustace Edward Fiennes, second son of the seventeenth Baron, represented Banbury in Parliament and also served as Governor of the Leeward Islands.[6] In 1916 he was created a baronet, of Banbury in the County of Oxford. Since 1944 the baronetcy has been held by his grandson, explorer Ranulph Fiennes. Actors Ralph Fiennes and Joseph Fiennes are from a cadet branch of the family, being descended from Frederick the sixteenth Baron.
Through the marriage of the second Viscount to a daughter of
List of titleholders
Lord Saye (1313)
- Geoffrey de Saye, 1st Lord Saye (1281–1322)
- Geoffrey de Saye, 2nd Lord Saye (c. 1305 – 26 June 1359)
- William de Saye, 3rd Lord Saye (17 June 1314 – 1375)
- John de Saye 4th Lord Say (c. 1373 – 27 July 1382)
- Elizabeth de Saye de Falvesley Heron, (5th) Baroness Say and suo jure Baroness Leybourne (24 February 1356 – 8 July 1399)
Lord (Baron) Saye and Sele (1447)
- James Fiennes, 1st Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1395–1450)
- William Fiennes, 2nd Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1428–1471)
- Henry Fiennes, de jure 3rd Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1460–1476)
- Richard Fiennes, de jure 4th Baron Saye and Sele (12 April 1471 – 1501)
- Edward Fiennes, de jure 5th Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1500–1528)
- Richard Fiennes, de jure 6th Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1520–1573)
Baron Saye and Sele (1603)
- Richard Fiennes, 7th Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1557–1613)
- William Fiennes, 8th Baron Saye and Sele (1582–1662; created Viscount Saye and Sele 1624)
Viscount Saye and Sele (1624)
- William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, 8th Baron Saye and Sele (1582–1662)
- Nathaniel's son
- William Fiennes, 3rd Viscount Saye and Sele (c. 1641–1698) (nephew)
- Nathaniel Fiennes, 4th Viscount Saye and Sele (1676–1710) (son)
- Laurence Fiennes, 5th Viscount Saye and Sele (c. 1690–1742) (cousin, son of Col. John Fiennes, 3rd son of 1st Viscount)
- Richard Fiennes, 6th Viscount Saye and Sele (1716–1781)
Barons Saye and Sele (1603; reverted)
- Cecil Twisleton, de jure 10th Baroness Saye and Sele (d. 1723) (became sole heir in 1715)
- Fiennes Twistleton, de jure 11th Baron Saye and Sele (1670–1730)
- John Twisleton, de jure 12th Baron Saye and Sele (1698–1763)
- Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele (c. 1735–1788) (dormancy terminated in his favour)
- Gregory William Eardley-Twisleton-Fiennes, 14th Baron Saye and Sele (1769–1844)
- William Thomas Eardley-Twisleton-Fiennes, 15th Baron Saye and Sele (1798–1847)
- Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye and Sele (1799–1887) Archdeacon of Hereford
- John Fiennes Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 17th Baron Saye and Sele (1830–1907)
- Geoffrey Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 18th Baron Saye and Sele (1858–1937)
- Geoffrey Rupert Cecil Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 19th Baron Saye and Sele (1884–1949)
- Ivo Murray Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 20th Baron Saye and Sele (1885–1968)
- Nathaniel Thomas Allen Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (1920–2024)
- Martin Fiennes, 22nd Baron Saye and Sele (born 1961)
The heir apparent is the present holder's eldest son, Guy Fiennes (born 1997)
See also
References
- ^ ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
- ^ Foxe, John (1854). The Church Historians of England: Reformation Period. Seeleys. p. 137. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ a b Dunkin, Alfred John (1855). History of the County of Kent. pp. 21–34.
- ^ Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Longmans, Green. pp. 268–273. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ William of Wykeham (c.1320 – 1404) who left his fortune to his great-nephew Thomas Wykeham. Thomas Wykeham's granddaughter married William Fiennes, 2nd Baron Saye and Sele.
- ^ Seychelles National Archives: Lt. Col. The Hon. Sir Eustace Edward Twistleton Wykeham Fiennes, CMG, (1918-1921)