Baron FitzWarin

The title Baron FitzWarin (also spelt Fitz Waryn, FitzWarine,and Fitz-Warine) was a hereditary peerage created by Writ of summons for Fulk FitzWarine V in 1295. His family had been great lords for nearly a century, at least since his grandfather Fulk III had recovered Whittington Castle in 1205. This castle was their main residence and its lordship was a marcher lordship near Oswestry. This has been in Shropshire since 1536 and also in the Domesday Book, but for much of the intervening period was regarded as part of Wales.

All the heads of the family had the name Fulk, and the barony with the castle and lordship of Whittington descended from father to son until the death of Fulk XI in 1420. It then passed down the female line into the Bourchier family. John Bourchier, 11th Baron FitzWarin was created Earl of Bath in 1536. However, the barony became abeyant upon the death of the 4th Earl in 1636 and remains so.

Predecessors of peers

*Fulk FitzWarin I, a supporter of Henry II died 1170/1
*Fulk FitzWarin II, married Hawise daughter of Joceas de Dinan
*Fulk FitzWarin III (died 1258), obtained Whittington Castle in 1204, and the subject of the romantic legend.
*Fulk FitzWarin IV, drowned while fleeing from the Battle of Lewes in 1264.

Barons FitzWarin (1295)

*Fulk FitzWarin V, 1st Baron FitzWarin (1251–1315), summoned to Parliament as Lord Fitzwarine 23 Jun 1295.
*Fulk FitzWarin VI, 2nd Baron FitzWarin (c.1285–1337)
*Fulk FitzWarin VII, 3rd Baron FitzWarin (c.1315–1349)
*Fulk FitzWarin VIII, 4th Baron FitzWarin (1340–1374)
*Fulk FitzWarin IX, 5th Baron FitzWarin (1362–1391)
*Fulk FitzWarin X, 6th Baron FitzWarin (1389–1407)
*Fulk FitzWarin XI, 7th Baron FitzWarin (1406–1420)
*Elizabeth FitzWarin, Baroness FitzWarin in her own right (c.1404–c.1427) married Richard Hankeford. Upon her death the barony must have been in abeyance between her daughters Thomasia and Elizabeth until the death of the latter in 1433.
*Thomasia Hankeford, Baroness FitzWarin in her own right (1423–1453) married William Bourchier, who was summoned to Parliament as Lord FitzWarin in her right.
*Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin (1445–1479)
*John Bourchier, 11th Baron FitzWarin (1470–1539) created Earl of Bath in 1536
*John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499–1561), 12th Baron FitzWarin
*William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (bef. 1557–1623), 13th Baron FitzWarin
*Edward Bourchier, 4th Earl of Bath (Baptised 1 March, 1590 – 31 March, 1636), 14th Baron FitzWarin, upon whose death the barony fell into abeyance between his daughters Anne, Elizabeth and Dorothy.

ee also

Whittington Castle

References

*P. Brown, P. King, and P. Remfrey, 'Whittington Castle: The marcher fortress of the Fitz Warin family', "Shropshire Archaeology and History" LXXIX (2004), 106–127.
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm thepeerage.com]
*Rayment (but not wholly satisfactory)"Note: some older accounts of the family were written before it was known that a Fulk died in 1336, and accordingly miss out a generation."