Talk:Baron Trimlestown
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A nearly 800 yr old title probably has an heir but that heir is unknown.Alci12 14:38, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] ODNB says
Barnewall, Robert, styled twelfth Baron Trimleston (c.1704–1779), ... Descended from an Anglo-Norman family whose estates in the counties of Meath and Dublin had been extensive, the Barnewalls had by the mid-seventeenth century begun to suffer the consequences of being prominent Roman Catholics. In 1652 the eighth Baron Trimleston was attainted and the family had its lands restored only by the Act of Settlement. The estates were again placed in jeopardy when Robert's uncle, the tenth baron, fought on the side of James II, eventually being killed in 1692. His successor, Robert's father, managed by application to the court of claims to rescue part of the estate. Robert, as a member of a proscribed religion, inherited a title which had no legal recognition; but this seems not to have dampened his aristocratic demeanour or way of life.
What do we think of this "no legal recognition" and "styled"? Cutler 12:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
