Baron de Ros

Baron de Ros is a hereditary British title of nobility belonging to the Peerage of England. This is a so-called barony by writ namely by the first title that has been created in this way.

Descent of the Barons de Ros and existence of the barony

Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros was a descendant of Piers de Ros, his great-grandfather, the steward Dapifer the French Count of Aumale was and who died about the year 1130. Robert de Ros was companion of Simon de Montfort 1263/64 and from that convened on December 24, 1264 on behalf of the king by a writ of summons to Parliament Montfort. It has long been questionable in the English constitutional history, whether this convocation had established a hereditary barony, if only because they had not been authorized by the King. Therefore counted as 1st Baron de Ros until Robert's son William de Ros, of a writ of summons received by the king in 1299. The question of whether the Barony de Ros since 1264 consisting recognized, remained long in suspense. In the period following the title holder petitioned repeatedly to achieve recognition Roberts as 1st Baron de Ros. It was first given as a first step of the barony in 1616 the priority over all other baronies of the Kingdom until finally 1806 the House of Lords, the barony of de Ros recognized as founded in 1264. Since that time, it is legally recognized that the Barony de Ros is the oldest in England and allowed to use the title Premier barony of England.

In the family de Ros the title remained until 1508th Then he went in the ways of female succession to the family Manners, Earl of Rutland, on. After the death of the 15th Baroness de Ros, Elizabeth Manners, the title went to the Cecil family over, then on the family Villiers and then fell after the death of the last Villiers 1687 in Abeyance. The Abeyance did not end until 1806. From then on, the title of short-term Abeyances apart was occupied. The present Baron de Ros, Peter Trevor Maxwell, 28th titleholder.

List of barons de Ros

  • Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros ( 13th century -ca 1285)
  • William de Ros, 2nd Baron de Ros ( 13th century -1316 )
  • William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros ( unknown -1342 )
  • William de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros ( 1326-1352 )
  • Thomas de Ros, 5th Baron de Ros ( 1338-1383 )
  • John de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros ( 1366-1393 )
  • William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros ( 1369-1414 )
  • John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros ( 1396-1421 )
  • Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron de Ros ( 1407-1431 )
  • Thomas de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros ( 1427-1464 )
  • Edmund de Ros, 11th Baron de Ros ( 1446-1508 )
  • Abeyance 1508-1512
  • George Manners, 12th Baron de Ros (ca. 1470-1513 )
  • Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 13th Baron de Ros (c. 1492-1543 )
  • Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, 14th Baron de Ros ( -1563 )
  • Edward Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, 15th Baron de Ros ( -1587 )
  • Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros ( 1575-1591 )
  • William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros ( 1590-1618 )
  • Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, 18th Baron de Ros ( 1578-1632 );
  • Katherine Villiers, 19 Baroness de Ros ( about 1663 )
  • George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros ( 1628-1687 ),
  • Abeyance 1687-1806
  • Mary Francis Dawson, 25th Baroness de Ros ( 1864-1939 )
  • Abeyance 1939-1943
  • Una Mary Ross, 26th Baroness de Ros ( 1879-1956 )
  • Abeyance 1956-1958
  • Georgina Angela Maxwell, 27th Baroness de Ros ( 1933-1983 )
  • Peter Trevor Maxwell, 28th Baron de Ros (1958 - )

The heir apparent is the son of the current Baron, Hon Finbar James Maxwell ( * 1988).

Hereditary peer Robert de Ros (died 1285) Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros
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