The title Baron Willoughby de Broke is a barony by writ in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1491, in the for Sir Robert Willoughby, 9th Baron Latymer. At the death of his son, the baronies of Willoughby and Latymer fell into abeyance. Circa 1535, the Sovereign terminated the abeyance of the Willoughby title in favour of the second baron's granddaughter Elizabeth, who had married Sir Fulke Greville. The title stayed in the Greville family until the death of the fifth Baron, when the title passed to his sister, Margaret Verney. Thereafter the title has remained in the Verney family.
Hubert de Vaux, in the reign of that prince, obtained the barony of Gillesland in the county of Cumberland.
Robert, grandson of Thomas younger son of Robert third lord Willoughbyde Eresby, early distinguished himself on the party of Henry earl of Richmond, afterwards king Henry the seventh, and, upon the defeat of Stafford duke of Buckingham, fled to that prince upon the continent.
BaronWilloughbydeBroke in the county of Wilts 12 August 1492.
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