General Notes

On the Barony of de L'Isle [Burke's Peerage]

Meanwhile in 1357 a Gerard de Lisle, second cousin of the Robert mentioned above and grandson of another Gerard who had acquired the Berkshire manor of Kingston Lisle from his mother, was called to Parliament by writ.  He thus became according to later doctrine Lord (Baron) Lisle [the Barony de Lisle of the aforementioned Robert existed until 1428, making two Baronies named the same].  As has been remarked elsewhere, the absurdity of two peers of Parliament with identical titles existing simultaneously is one of the strongest arguments for supposing early writs of summons were no intended to create heritable titles of honour.  This 1st Lord Lisle of the 1357 creation also fought at Crecy, as well as in other battles of the Hundred Years War.  The 1357 peerage descended to two sole heiresses in succession, who by a later doctrine would have been deemed baronesses in their own right.  With the death of the second sole heiress any barony created by the writ of 1357 would have been deemed by later doctrine to have fallen into abeyance.  In 1823 a descendant of this second sole heiress, Sir John Shelley Sidney, 1st Baronet, unsuccessfully petitioned the House of Lords to terminate the abeyance in his favour.

Name Suffix:<NSFX> [Baron Lisle]
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> V9S8-TD