KERINGTOUN— KERRY. 361 KERINGTOUN. i.e., "Ramsay of Kerixgtoun," Barony [S.] {Ramsay), a: 1633, with the Earldom of Dalhocsik [s.], which see. KERDESTON. Barony by i. Roger de Kerdestox, s. t-nd h. of William Jo Writ. Kerdeaton, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk (1296-97), by Margaret, sister and coheir of Gilbert, Lord Gant (who d. s.p. 1298), da. of I. 1332. Gilbert de Gaxt, of Folkinghaui, co. Lincoln, having sue. to a large part of the lands of his maternal uncle abovenamed, was made K.B., 1306 ; Gov. of Norwich Castle; Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk. 1381, and was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LOUD KERDESTON) from 27 Jan. (1331/2), 6 Kd. III., to 21 June (1337), 11 Ed. III. He m, Maud. He d. 1337 and was bur. in the Abbey of Langley, co. Norfolk. His wife survived him. II. 1337, 2. William (de Kerdestox), Lord Kerdestox, s. and to h., aged 30 at the death of his father iu 1337 ; sum, to Pari, from 1361. 20 Dec. (1337), 11 Ed. III.,(») to 3 April (1360), 34 Ed. III. He was iu the wars in France and fought at the battle of Creasy. He >». Margaret, da. of Edward Bacon, of Norwich. He d. s.p m. legit-C") 14 Oct. 1361, when the Barony fell into abeyance.!*) KERRY, and KERRY AND LIXNAW. [Obsereafions — The origin of this peerage is obscure, but its position since the 15th Century as the third of the then existing Peerage Baronies [1.] is undoubted, its possessor, in 1489, being so ranked among the nine Irish Barons,!' 1 ) who (together with six peers of a higher grade) were sum by Hen. VII. to Greenwicli in that year(°), of whom the frst was Athenhy, and the second Kinusale. The Lord Commissioners, in 1615, admitted(') that "the Fitzmaurices, Lords of Kerry and Lixnaw, proved their possession of that dignity to be as ancient as the Conijutsl" [i.e.. the Conquest of Ireland in 1172], audthe same Lords also "adjudgedCj the antiquity of the Lords Courcy of Kinsale to be still greater than that of the Lords Fitz Maurice of Kerry." From the first of these recognitions it ( a ) In tins writ the christian name William has been erased with a pen and the following remark added " I r acat quia restitutus fuit et alibi in obse>[itio Regis." ( b ) William de Kerdeston, s. of the deceased Baron, by Blanche, or Alice, Norwich (called his concubine) was found by one ing, post mortem to be his son and heir and then aged 36. He obtained possession of Claxton in Norfolk and some other of the estates and had issue, Sir Leonard Kerdeston, his 8. aud h., whose s. and h., Sir Thomas Kerdeston, d. 30 July 1446, s.p.m., leaving Elizabeth, his da. and h., who m. Sir Terry Kobsart, by whom she had a da., Lucy, who m. Edward Walpole (whose issue now represents this line) and a sou, John, whose only da. and h., Amy Robsart, the well known Countess of Leicester, d. s.p. See Banks's " Bar. An'jl. Cone." It is, however, observed by Mr. Townseud in his Additions to Dugdale't Baronage (Coll. Top. el Gen., viii, p. 73), that " It appears clearly by inq. 29 Hen. VI., No. 31, that William de Kerdeston, the last Baron, had no other lawful issue except two daughters, Maud and Margaret, and that the male succession for three generations of William, Leonard, and Thomas, had been a usurpation." ( c ) The coheirs were his two daughters or their descendants, viz. (1) Sir John Burghersh, 17 years old in 1361, s. and h. of Maud (wife of Sir John Burgersh), da. of the said Baron (2) Margaret, Bt. Sir William Tendriug, w hose representative was her great great grandson, John (Howard), 1st Duke of Norfolk. A good account of the coheiis (thro' both daughters) is in " Coll. Top. et den.," vol. viii, pp. 73-75, butsee also Banks's '• Bar. Au(jl. Cone." for a somewhat contradictory account. ( d j See vol. i, p. 171, note " c," sub. " Atheury," for some observations on the Early Irish Baronies, as Peerage Dignities. («) Seo " Preface " to vol. i., p. iii., note " a." (0 "Remarks upon the ancient Baronage of Ireland " [Qy. by W. Lynch] Dublin, 1829, p. 12.
