Holds or carries the 1313 writ · Same writ, new surnames
Tuchet · Castlehaven · Souter
1408 – 1997
Carries. The 1313 dignity under Tuchet, Thicknesse, Jesson, MacNamee, Souter. 1408, 1512, 1678, 1937.
Breaks. Irish earldom of Castlehaven extinct 1777. English barony walks. 1997 splits three ways.
Joan Audley's son sits as John Tuchet, 4th Baron, in 1408. The surname changes. The writ does not. Attainder in 1497 and 1631; restoration in 1512 and 1678. Mary, 22nd, wears it suo jure in 1937. Richard, 25th, dies 27 June 1997. Three daughters hold it now.
Sister houses
Women of this house
Men of this house
John Tuchet, 4th Baron
1408 · Abeyance terminated. Quarterly arms begin.
James, 5th Baron
1459 · Killed at Blore Heath.
James, 7th Baron
1497 · Attainted. Restoration is not extinction.
John, 8th Baron
1512 · Restored. Second great precedent.
George, 1st Earl of Castlehaven
1616 · Irish flourish around an older English writ.
Mervyn, 12th Baron
1631 · Felony attainder. The wound 1678 closes.
James, 13th Baron
1678 · Restored by Act. The governing precedent.
John, 18th Baron
1777 · Last Castlehaven. Irish titles die. English writ walks.
George Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th
1777 – · 1332 subsidy name comes home to the title.
Richard Souter, 25th Baron
d. 27 Jun 1997 · Last holder. Three daughters hold it now.
Words used here
- Writ
- A royal letter calling a man to sit in Parliament — and, in this family, the legal act that created the barony.
- Suo jure
- ‘In her own right.’ A woman who is the peer, not merely a peer’s wife.
- Attainder
- Parliament’s sentence that a person’s blood is corrupted — titles and land forfeit.
- Restoration
- The Crown or Parliament putting back a dignity that attainder had taken.