Great British Family Names and Their History by John Moss

Author:John Moss
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books

The Clinton Family of Lincoln

The Earldom of Lincoln was first created in 1143 for William d’Aubigny, (c.1109–1176), first Earl of Arundel. It passed through several families during the reign of King Stephen, but after its investiture to Ranulph de Blondeville, it passed, unusually, to his sister, Hawise of Chester, by royal consent. Through her it passed to John de Lacy, (who died in 1240), being made Earl of Lincoln in 1232. He was son of Roger de Lacy, Justiciar of England and Constable of Chester. However, within a century, there being no further male claimants, the earldom reverted to the Crown.

Over the following two centuries it passed into the Pole and Brandon families, before in its eighth creation it went to Edward Fiennes Clinton, who became ninth Baron Clinton. Edward served as Lord High Admiral under Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl, who represented Launceston and Lancashire in Parliament.

In 1768, Henry Clinton, (1720-94), succeeded his uncle Thomas Pelham as second Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, and since this date the title of Earl of Lincoln has been the courtesy title of the eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle.

On the death of Edward, the eigtheenth Earl, in July 2001, Robert Edward Fiennes-Clinton, (born in June 1972), succeeded to the Earldom of Lincoln.

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