Baron St John of Basing


Baron St John de/of Basing is a former title in the Peerage of England.
On 29 December 1299 John St John was summoned to Parliament. Following his decease, his son was never summoned, nor was his grandson, on whose death while still a child in 1347 the right to the barony would have fallen into abeyance between his two sisters Margaret and Isabel. Only fourteen years later, the death without issue of Margaret's sole son and heir John St. Philibert alias St. John in 1361 resulted in the termination of the abeyance in favour of the remaining sister, Isabel Poynings, née St John, whose husband Lucas de Poynings was summoned in 1367/8, presumably in her right. At the death of the fifth baron, Thomas Poynings in 1428/9, the barony fell into abeyance again among his granddaughters and their heirs. A descendant of one of these heirs, William Paulet, was summoned as Baron St. John in 1538/9, this representing a new creation and not the termination of the abeyance. He was later created Earl of Wiltshire and Marquess of Winchester, with which titles the new barony has remained united.

Barons St John de Basing (1299)

By Writ of Summons dated 29 December 1299, 28 Edward I:
On 9 March 1539 a Barony of Saint John was created for: