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2 days ago · The Percy family is an ancient English noble family. They were among the oldest and most powerful noble families in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages. The noble family is known for its long rivalry with the House of Neville, another family powerful in northern England during the 15th century.
1 day ago · This branch of the Stanley family descended from the Hon. Sir John Stanley, third son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley (whose eldest son Thomas was created Earl of Derby in 1485). His mother was Margaret Owen, heiress of the Penrhos estate on Anglesey and he was appointed High Sheriff of Anglesey for 1809.
4 days ago · This is a list of the present and extant Barons ( Lords of Parliament, in Scottish terms) in the Peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
3 days ago · Sir Thomas Stanley's eldest son was ancestor of the earls of Derby. His second son, Peter, was father of Thomas Stanley of Cross Hall, high sheriff in 1718, who died in 1733, and to whose son Charles the tenth earl of Derby bequeathed Cross Hall.
4 days ago · — Ralph de Monthermer, of Stokenham, was summoned to parliament as a baron, in 1308; his son Thomas, who was slain in a sea-fight, in 1340, left a daughter and heir married to John de Montacute, who, in 1357, was summoned to parliament as Baron Montacute of Stokenham.
8 hours ago · These estates were managed by eleven bailiffs and the stewards of Hutton and Westhoughton, in addition to the abbey steward, a post occupied by Thomas Stanley, Lord Monteagle, a receiver and a court steward.
4 days ago · Natasha Kaplinsky has claimed that Sacha Baron Cohen was put on 'gardening leave' from her first TV job after a guest of his took their clothes off.. The English journalist, 51, worked with Sacha ...
