Baron Lucy (anciently Lucie or Luci) is a title that has been created four times, three times
by tenure and once
by writ
By or BY may refer to:
Places
* By, Doubs, France, a commune
* By, Norway, a village
Codes
* Belarus ISO country code
** .by, country-code top-level domain for Belarus
* Burundi, obsolete FIPS Pub 10-4 and NATO digram country codes
* TUI Ai ...
, which means that the peerages could descend through both male and female lines. The first creation by tenure came in the 12th century with Chief Justiciar
Richard de Luci
Richard de Lucy, Luci, Lucie, or Lusti (1089– 14 July 1179), also known as Richard the Loyal, was first noted as High Sheriff of Essex, after which he was made Chief Justiciar of England.
Life
The De Lucy family took its surname from Lucé ...
. In 1320, the title Baron Lucy was created in the
Peerage of England
The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerag ...
by writ of summons dated 15 May 1320. The title Baron Lucy has been dormant since 1398.
Barons de Lucy
Barons de Lucy (also Lucie or Luci) by tenure
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Richard de Luci
Richard de Lucy, Luci, Lucie, or Lusti (1089– 14 July 1179), also known as Richard the Loyal, was first noted as High Sheriff of Essex, after which he was made Chief Justiciar of England.
Life
The De Lucy family took its surname from Lucé ...
, Governor of Faleis (Normandy), Lord of Diss, Chief Justiciar of England (died 1179)
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Richard de Luci
Richard de Lucy, Luci, Lucie, or Lusti (1089– 14 July 1179), also known as Richard the Loyal, was first noted as High Sheriff of Essex, after which he was made Chief Justiciar of England.
Life
The De Lucy family took its surname from Lucé ...
, son of Geoffrey de Luci, 2nd and last Baron Lucy by tenure (died ante 1196)
Barons de Lucy/Luci (of Egremont) by tenure
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Reginald de Luci, Lord of Egremont (died ante 1199)
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Richard de Luci
Richard de Lucy, Luci, Lucie, or Lusti (1089– 14 July 1179), also known as Richard the Loyal, was first noted as High Sheriff of Essex, after which he was made Chief Justiciar of England.
Life
The De Lucy family took its surname from Lucé ...
, Reginald's son, Lord of Egremont (died 1213)
Barons de Lucy (of Cockermouth) by writ (1320)
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Anthony de Lucy
Anthony de Lucy (1283–10 June 1343), 1st Baron Lucy or Luci, was an English nobleman who served as warden of Carlisle Castle and Chief Justiciar of Ireland.
Life
Lord Lucy's coat of arms. The fish are pikes, and thus form a pun on th ...
, 1st Baron Lucy (died 1343)
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Thomas de Lucy, 2nd Baron Lucy (Anthony's son; d. 1365)
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Anthony de Lucy
Anthony de Lucy (1283–10 June 1343), 1st Baron Lucy or Luci, was an English nobleman who served as warden of Carlisle Castle and Chief Justiciar of Ireland.
Life
Lord Lucy's coat of arms. The fish are pikes, and thus form a pun on th ...
, 3rd Baron Lucy (d. 1368)
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Joan de Lucy, 4th Baroness Lucy (daughter of Anthony, 3rd Baron; d. 1369 in infancy)
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Maud de Umfraville, 5th Baroness Lucy, Countess of Angus (sister of Anthony, 3rd Baron; d.1398). Following her death on 24 December 1398 the peerage became dormant.
See also
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De Lucy de Lucy or de Luci (alternate spellings: Lucey, Lucie, Luce, Luci) is the surname of an old Norman noble family originating from Lucé in Normandy, one of the great baronial Anglo-Norman families which became rooted in England after the Norma ...
Notes
References
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*Lucy pedigree, http://www.lucey.net/webpage10.htm
Bibliography
* John Burke, ''A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance'', Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, London 1831
* Nicholas Harris, William Courthope, ''The historic peerage of England'', John Murray, London 1857
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1320 establishments in England
Dormant baronies in the Peerage of England
Noble titles created in 1320