EGREMONT. 247 [An account of the feudal Lords of tho Barony of Egremont, co. Cumberland, is given in Jefferson's " Allerdale Ward above Derwent," 1842. Tbese Lords were (1) de Meschines (2) de Romeley, Lords (also) of Skipton in Craven (3) Frrz Duncan (4) Lucy) (5) Multon (6) Lucy, again, but only as to a third part, not including the Castle. The eventual heiress of the Lucy family m. Henry (Percy), Earl of Northumberland, but d. s.p. in 1398 when that Earl and (7) the Percy family (by arrangement) sue. to the honour of Coekermouth and other of her possessions, but the Barony of Egremont thus, as before stated, broken into parts became (says Mr. John Denton in 1670) "now, of late, reunited by the Earls of Northumberland who are [1670] Lords thereof by gift and purchase but not by descent from any of the coheirs." From Percy it passed (8) to Seymour, whence to (9) Wyndham as stated below.] Barony. s m TnoMAS Percy, yr. (probably the 5th but 2d surv.) I. H49 a of Heur y> 2(1 Ea - rl op NonTHO.UBEiiLA.ND, by Eleanor, da. of Ralph . ' (Nevill), 1st Earl op Westmorland, was 6. at Leckonfield, co. York, , , rn 29 Nov. 1422, and was, in his father's lifetime, cr. 20 Nov. 1449, by 14DU ' patent/') BARON EGREMONT with rem. "to him and his heirs male for ever."( b ) He and his yr. br. Sir Richard Percy were involved in great disputes with their maternal cousins, the Nevill3, sons of the Earl of Salisbury, with whom they fought a pitched battle, in 1453, at Staynford bridge. Lord Egremont was slain on the Lancastrian Bide at Northampton, 10 July 1460. He appears to have d. s.p. legit. ( c ) when the Barony, notwithstanding the extensive tho' vague wordiug of the limitation in the patent, was considered as extinct. Earldom. l. Algernon (Setmour), Duke of Somerset T 174.Q Earl of Northumberland [1749], &c, was, 3 Oct. 1749, cr. BARO>
- '**" OF COCKERHOUTlt and EARL OF EGREMONT, both co.
Cumberland, with a spec. rem. failing the heir male of his body, to his nephew Sir Charles Wyndham, Bart., and Percy O'Brien, formerly Wyndham (sons of Sir William Wyndham, Bart., deed, by Katherine, sister to the grantee) and the heirs male of their bodies respectively. The grantee was a. and h. of Charles (Seymour), 6th Duke op Somerset, by his first wife, Elizabeth,( d ; C«) The patent is printed at large in Madox's Bm-onia Anglica (folio, 1741), p. 142. It is one of the sixteen Baronies cr. by patent before the 16th century. See a list of them p. 31, note " e," st<4 " Daubeny." ( b ) See observations as to patents similarly worded p. 107, note " c," sub " Devon." ( c ) Sir John Percy, who came of age in 1 ISO, when he released certain premises at Lambeth granted in June 1458 by his father Thomas Percy, Lord Egremont (to winch Lord at that time his br. William was heir presumptive) is supposed to have been illegitimate. In this deed, however (17 June, 20 Ed. IV.) he styles himself filius ct haires T/iomc Percy, militis, Domini, dum vixcrit, de Egremond. It is also aptly observed by Sir James Ramsay (Selby's " Genealogist," N.S., iv, 173), that "under the year 1464 the contemporary chronicle, printed by Mr. Gairdner (Three 15th century chronicles, Cam. Soc, 1880), notices (p. 178), one Dominum Egremound. Then, again, in 1472 or 1473 we have a complaint in Pari. (Rot Pari, vi, 63), of disturbances caused in Cumberland by " the Lord Egremond. This is evidence that Thomas Percy left some relative on whom, in public estimation, the title descended, tho' he was never sum. to Pari." Again, Mr. Gough remarks that ■' Lord Egremont " in 1496 was sent by Henry VII. to the Court of Maximilian and arrived at Nordtingen in Jany. 1496 [probably 1495/6] and is called by Mr. James Gairdner "an able diplomatist probably of the Percy family who bad been employed before tbis in negotiations with Scotland." Mr. Gough suggests the possibility of this being George Percy, Lieut of the East and Middle Marches in 1488 and refers to Bain's " Calendar of Documents [S.]," iv, 315, No. 1,545. ( d ) This lady was the heir general of her father, who had, as heir male (apparently the last heir male tho' not the heir general) of the Percy family, sue. to all then- estates. These included those in the Barony of Egremont, which (by tho match with the heiress of Lucy, in the 14th century) had devolved on the Percy family.
