Baron Zouche is a title which has been created three times,all in the Peerage of England.
Eleanor de Clare,suo jure 6th Lady of Glamorgan was a Anglo-Welsh noblewoman who married Hugh Despenser the Younger and was a granddaughter of Edward I of England. With her sisters,Elizabeth de Clare and Margaret de Clare,she inherited her father's estates after the death of her brother,Gilbert de Clare,8th Earl of Gloucester,7th Earl of Hereford at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. She was born in 1292 at Caerphilly Castle in Glamorgan,Wales and was the eldest daughter of Gilbert de Clare,6th Earl of Hertford,7th Earl of Gloucester,5th Lord of Glamorgan and Princess Joan of Acre.
William III de Cantilupe was the 3rd feudal baron of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire,and jure uxoris was feudal baron of Totnes in Devon and Lord of Abergavenny. His chief residences were at Calne in Wiltshire and Aston Cantlow,in Warwickshire,until he inherited Abergavenny Castle and the other estates of that lordship.
Robert de Holland,1st Baron Holand was an English nobleman,born in Lancashire.
William de la Zouche (1299–1352) was Lord Treasurer of England and served as Archbishop of York from 1342 until his death.
Eustace Folville is credited with killing/assassinating the unpopular Sir Roger de Beler,Baron of the Exchequer and henchman of the despised Hugh le Despencer and ineffective King Edward II. He was the most active member of the Folville Gang who engaged in acts of vigilantism and outlawry in Leicestershire in the early 1300s,often on the behalf of others.
The Folville gang were an armed band operating in Leicestershire in the early 14th century,led by Eustace Folville.
Maurice de Berkeley,2nd Baron Berkeley,The Magnanimous,feudal baron of Berkeley,of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire,England,was a peer. He rebelled against King Edward II and the Despencers. His epithet,and that of each previous and subsequent head of his family,was coined by John Smyth of Nibley,steward of the Berkeley estates,the biographer of the family and author of Lives of the Berkeleys.
Ashby Folville is a village in the Melton district of Leicestershire,south west of Melton Mowbray. The civil parish of Ashby Folville was abolished in 1936 and its 1,796 acres (727 ha) were merged with Gaddesby.
Harringworth is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire,England. It is located close to the border with Rutland,on the southern bank of the River Welland,and around 5.3 miles (8.5 km) north of Corby. At the 2001 Census,the population of the parish was 247,falling to 241 at the 2011 Census.
Zouch is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alan la Zouche (1205–1270) was an English nobleman and soldier of Breton descent. He built the Zouches Manor.
William I de Cantilupe 1st feudal baron of Eaton (Bray) in Bedfordshire,England,was an Anglo-Norman royal administrator who served as steward of the household to King John and as Baron of the Exchequer.
Roger Beler was a Baron of the Exchequer and right-hand man of Hugh le Despencer and King Edward II. Beler was killed by the Folville gang in 1326.
Sir Thomas Berkeley of Wymondham,Leicestershire was an English lawyer,soldier and politician. He represented Leicestershire in Parliament and served as Sheriff for Rutland,Warwickshire and Leicestershire.
Sir John Folville was an member of parliament (MP) for Rutland and Leicestershire and father of Eustace Folville,the leader of the Folville Gang. More recent research shows Farnham's Folville pedigree is flawed. The leader of the Folville gang was the issue of Sir Eustace by Dame Alice.
Sir William Trussell was an English politician and leading rebel in Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer,1st Earl of March's rebellion against Edward II. William acted as Speaker of the House of Commons and renounced the allegiance of England to Edward II,forcing his abdication,and became King Edward III's Secretary.
Sir Robert de Hellewell was a member of the Folville Gang that slew the corrupt Baron of the Exchequer,Sir Roger de Beler and was Rutland's MP in 1340.
William la Zouche,1st Baron Zouche (1276/86–1352) lord of the manor of Harringworth in Northamptonshire,was an English baron and soldier who fought in the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is referred to in history as "of Harringworth" to distinguish him from his first cousin Alan la Zouche,1st Baron la Zouche (1267–1314) of Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire.
The feudal barony of Eaton Bray in Bedfordshire was an English feudal barony founded in 1205 when the manor of Eaton was granted by King John to his household steward William I de Cantilupe (d.1239),together with many others,including Aston in Warwickshire. In 1221 Cantilupe built a castle at Eaton,which became the caput of his feudal barony and was described by the monks of nearby Dunstable Priory in the Annals of Dunstable as being "a serious danger to Dunstable and the neighbourhood". The grant was for knight-service of one knight and was in exchange for the manor of Great Coxwell,Berkshire,which had been granted to him previously but the grant was deemed compromised. Eaton had been held at the time of William the Conqueror by the latter's uterine half-brother Odo,Bishop of Bayeux,but later escheated to the crown.
