Baron Coleville was a title of nobility in the

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. Walter de Colville of

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in Lincolnshire was summoned in 1264 to a parliament convened by

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, who held King

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captive. Walter was captured by Prince

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later that year and was forced to redeem his confiscated lands. While participation in this rebel parliament is not considered to have created a hereditary peerage, Walter's great-grandson, Robert de Coleville, sat in Parliament from 1331 and later received a royal writ that by modern practice is viewed to have made him Lord Coleville. The title became extinct on the death of his son Robert at the age of 6 in 1370, his heirs being the descendants of two sisters of his grandfather, granddaughters of the Walter summoned by Montfort.G. E. Cokayne, ''Complete Peerage'', 3(1913):374-375
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The Castle

The castle itself after which the Barony took its name is now a mound of stones sitting upon a mound. It was originally owned by the Northumbrian earl Morcar, who tried to stop

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around the time of the Norman invasions of 1066. He was imprisoned and Odo, the half-brother of William took over the castle and completed it. It was destroyed during the

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between 1455 and 1485.

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