Baron Dacre

However, this new creation became extinct on his death in 1461, having been killed at the Battle of Towton and buried in the churchyard of nearby All Saints' Church, Saxton, Yorkshire, where survives his inscribed chest tomb.

One line descending from his deceased eldest son's daughter which were known as his "heirs general" and were the Fiennes peers, seated in Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex.

They were seated at Naworth Castle and Gilsland in Cumberland and were known as "Baron Dacre of the North".

His sisters inherited the Dacre properties in the north of England which then came under the control of the Duke of Norfolk following their marriages into the Howard family.

The great-great-grandson of the 7th Baroness, the ninth Baron, was a member of the jury at the trial of Anne Boleyn in 1536 and in 1537 attended the baptism of Prince Edward and bore the canopy at Queen Jane's funeral.

He married Anne Fitzroy eldest daughter of Barbara Villiers, mistress to King Charles II.

However, his earldom became extinct on his death in 1715, while the barony of Dacre fell into abeyance between his two daughters, Barbara and Anne.

When Barbara died childless in 1741, the abeyance was terminated the same year in favour of Anne, the 16th Baroness.

She was married three times, firstly to Richard Barrett, secondly to Henry Roper, 8th Baron Teynham, and thirdly to the Hon.

When he died, the title passed to his younger brother, the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden, who became the 23rd Baron Dacre as well.

The barony remained a subsidiary title of the viscountcy until the death of his great-grandson, the fourth Viscount and 26th Baron, in 1965.

The fourth Viscount was succeeded in the viscountcy by his younger brother while, the barony fell into abeyance between his two surviving daughters, the Hon.

In 1651 the title of Baron Dacre of Gilsland was recreated for Charles Howard, who was made Earl of Carlisle at the same time.

The noted historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, was the great-great-great-grandson of the Rev.