Cole baronets

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There have been two baronetcies created for people named Cole, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Ireland.

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The Cole Baronetcy, of Brancepeth Castle, in the County of Durham was created on 4 March 1640 [1] in the Baronetage of England for Nicholas Cole, Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne 1640 and 1641. He was an ardent Royalist who played a key part in the defence of Newcastle, which withstood a seven-month siege by Parliamentary forces in 1644. The Baronetcy became extinct on the death of the 4th Baronet, Sir Mark Cole of Brancepeth, in 1727. [1]

The Cole Baronetcy, of Newland, in the County of Dublin was created on 23 January 1661 for John Cole. His son Arthur was elevated to Baron Ranelagh in 1715. [2]

Cole of Brancepeth (1640)

Cole of Newland (1661)

See Baron Ranelagh

Notes

  1. 1 2 John Burke; Bernard Burke (1844). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland. John Russ Smith. p. 124.
  2. Edward Kimber (1768). The Peerage of Ireland: A Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom. J. Almon. p. 202.

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