Baron Burnell

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Coat of Arms of Sir Hugh Burnell, 2nd Baron Burnell (1347-1420), KG. Nominated KG 1406. Source: HOPE, W. H. St. John, ‘’The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions,’’ Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company LTD, 1901. Quarterly of 4 (with Hope's reversed quarterings corrected to reflect those actually visible on the Garter plate):

• 1&4: Argent, a lion rampant sable crowned or a bordure azure (Burnell) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.148)
• 2&3: Or, a saltire engrailed sable (Botetourt)

Genealogy

Per: Cokayne, G. E. & Gibbs, Vicary, eds. (1912). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Bass to Canning). 2 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press, pp.434-6

• Sir Philip Burnell (d.1294) of Candover, Holgate, Acton Burnell, etc in Shropshire, married Maud FitzAlan (fl.1298), sister of w:Richard FitzAlan, 1st Earl of Arundel (1267-1302);
  • Edward Burnell, 1st Baron Burnell (1282-1315), son, summoned to Parliament by writ dated 1311. He married Aline le Despencer, eldest daughter of w:Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Winchester (1261-1326) by his wife Isabel de Beauchamp (d.1353), a daughter of w:William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick (c.1238–1298). He died without issue in 1315, when the barony became extinct. His heir was his sister Maud Burnell, wife of John de Haudlo (d.1346)
    • Nicholas Burnell, 1st Baron Burnell (c.1334-1382/3) (born Nicholas Haudlo), nephew of the 1st Baron. He adopted the surname Burnell, having inherited the manors of Holgate, Acton Burnell, etc. He was summoned to Parliament by writ dated 1350, when he is deemed to have become Baron Burnell. He died in 1420 without surviving male issue and was buried at Hales Abbey. On his death the barony fell into abeyance. He married a certain Mary.
      • Hugh Burnell, 2nd Baron Burnell (1347-1420), son, nominated KG in 1406. He married thrice:
        • Firstly to Philippa de la Pole, a daughter of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, by whom he had issue:
          • Edward Burnell (d.1415), son and heir apparent, who was slain at the Battle of Agincourt and predeceased his father. He married twice: firstly to Alienore Strange, daughter of Baron Strange; secondly to a certain Elizabeth. His daughters (who were co-heiresses to their grandfather the 3rd Baron Burnell) were as follows:
            • Joyce Burnell, who married Thomas Erdington, without issue;
            • Katherine Burnell, who married firstly Sir John Ratcliffe, whose descendants the Earls of Sussex styled themselves Baron Burnell; secondly she married (as his 1st wife) w:John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury (c.1413-1460)
            • Margaret Burnell, who in 1416 married Edmund Hungerford, younger son of w:Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford (1378-1449). Her eventual female heiress married Edmund Dunch, who was created by Oliver Cromwell in 1658 "Baron Burnell of East Wittenham". Edmund Hungerford was knighted by Henry VI after the Battle of Verneuil on Whit-Sunday 1426, and by Margaret Burnell had two sons: Thomas Hungerford, ancestor of the Hungerfords of Down Ampney in Gloucestershire, of the Hungerfords of Windrush, Oxfordshire and of the Hungerfords of Black Bourton, Oxfordshire; and Edward Hungerford, ancestor of the Hungerfords of Cadenham, Wiltshire.
        • Secondly to Joyce Botetourt, suo jure Baroness Botetourt (d.1406/7), without issue;
        • Thirdly he married Joan Devereux (d.1409), a daughter of John Devereux, 1st Baron Devereux and widow of Walter FitzWalter, Baron FitzWalter. Without issue.