The Barony of Clinton is a barony by writ in the Peerage of England, dating to 1298. For a time in the 16th and 17th centuries it was held by the Earls of Lincoln. The fourteenth Baron was created Baron Fortescue and Earl of Clinton in 1746. On his death the barony of Fortescue was inherited, according to a special remainder in the letters patent, by his half-brother Matthew (from whom the Earls Fortescue descend) while the earldom became extinct. The barony of Clinton was inherited by a female cousin. Baron is a specific title of nobility or a more generic feudal qualification. ... The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in the Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. ... Events End of the reign of Emperor Fushimi of Japan Emperor Go-Fushimi ascends to the throne of Japan 21 July - Battle of Falkirk (1298): Englands Edward Longshank defeats William Wallaces Scottish rebels While in prison in Genoa, Marco Polo dictates his Travels to a local writer Births... The title of Earl of Lincoln was created in the Peerage of England in 1572 for Edward Clinton, Lord Clinton, who served as Lord High Admiral under Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. The title was from the 18th century until the 1980s held by the Duke of Newcastle... Earl Fortescue is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1789. ...

Barons Clinton (1298)

• John de Clinton, 1st Baron Clinton (d. 1315)
• John de Clinton, 2nd Baron Clinton(d. C. 1335)
• John de Clinton, 3rd Baron Clinton (d. 1398)
• William de Clinton, 4th Baron Clinton (1378-1431)
• John de Clinton, 5th Baron Clinton (1410-1464)
• John Clinton, 6th Baron Clinton (1431-1488)
• John Clinton, 7th Baron Clinton (1471-1514)
• Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton (1490-1517)
• Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, 9th Baron Clinton (1512-1585)
• Henry Clinton, 2nd Earl of Lincoln, 10th Baron Clinton (1541-1616)
• Thomas Clinton, 3rd Earl of Lincoln, 11th Baron Clinton (1568-1619)
• Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln, 12th Baron Clinton (1600-1667)
• Edward Clinton, 5th Earl of Lincoln, 13th Baron Clinton (d. 1692) (abeyant)
• Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl of Clinton, 14th Baron Clinton (1696-1751) (abeyance terminated 1721)
• Margaret Rolle, 15th Baroness Clinton (1709-1781)
• George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, 16th Baron Clinton (1730-1791) (dormant on his death)
• Robert George William Trefusis, 17th Baron Clinton (1764-1797) (claimed title 1794)
• Robert Cotton St John Trefusis, 18th Baron Clinton (1787-1832)
• Charles Rodolph Trefusis, 19th Baron Clinton (1791-1866)
• Charles Henry Rolle Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton (1834-1904)
• Charles John Robert Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, 21st Baron Clinton (1863-1957) (abeyant)
• Gerald Neville Mark Fane Trefusis, 22nd Baron Clinton (b. 1934) (abeyance terminated 1965)

Heir-Apparent: His son Hon. Charles Patrick Rolle Fane-Trefusis (b. 1962)
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