George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre
George Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre of Gilsland, 9th Baron Greystoke (c. 1561 – 17 May 1569) was an English peer and landowner in the county of Cumberland. He was summoned to parliament at about the age of five.
Life[edit]
Born around 1561, he was the only surviving son of Thomas Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre (c. 1527 – 1566), by his marriage to Elizabeth Leyburne (1536–1567), the eldest daughter of Sir James Leyburne of Westmorland. This was his father's second marriage.[1] He had a brother, Francis, who died in infancy, and three sisters – Anne (21 March 1557 – 19 April 1630), Mary (4 July 1563 – 7 April 1578), and Elizabeth (born 12 December 1564)
He succeeded his father as Baron Dacre and Baron Greystoke on 1 July 1566, at the age of five.[2] Soon after this, his widowed mother married Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, but she died in childbirth on 4 September 1567, thus Dacre and his three sisters were left as members of the household of their widowed step-father, Norfolk.[1]
The boy peer, aged no more than five, was summoned to parliament on 30 September 1566.[3] After he died on 17 May 1569, his two baronies, although claimed by his uncle Leonard, were found to have fallen into abeyance, leaving Dacre's three sisters as co-heiresses. By the age of fourteen, each of the three had been married to one of their stepbrothers, the sons of the Duke of Norfolk.[1]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c Dacre of Gilsland, Baron (E, 1473 - abeyant 1569) Archived November 26, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at cracroftspeerage.co.uk
- ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas, William Courthope, The Historic Peerage of England (Elibron facsimile edition), p. 139
- ^ George Fisher, A companion and key to the history of England (1832), p. 532