List of seigneurs of Sark


The Seigneur of Sark is the head of Sark in the Channel Islands. "Seigneur" is the French word for "lord", and a female head of Sark is called the Dame of Sark, of which there have been three. The husband of a female ruler of Sark is not a consort but is jure uxoris a Seigneur himself.

Description

The Seigneur's office is hereditary, but with permission of the Crown, it may be mortgaged or sold, as happened in 1849 when Pierre Carey le Pelley sold the fief to Marie Collings for £6,000.
The Seigneur was, before the constitutional reforms of 2008, the head of the feudal government of Sark, with the British monarch being the feudal overlord. The Seigneur had a suspensive veto power and the right to appoint most of the island's officers. Many of the laws, particularly those related to inheritance and the rule of the Seigneur, had changed little since Queen Elizabeth I granted a fiefdom to Hellier de Carteret in 1565.
The residents of Sark voted to introduce a fully elected legislature to replace the feudal government in 2006, and the law change was approved on 9 April 2008. The changes in the political system mostly apply to the parliament, the Chief Pleas, not to the Seigneur.

List of Seigneurs of Sark

  1. Hellier de Carteret
  2. Philippe de Carteret I
  3. Philippe de Carteret II
  4. Philippe de Carteret III
  5. Philippe de Carteret IV
  6. Charles de Carteret
  7. John Carteret
  8. John Johnson
  9. James Milner
  10. Susanne le Pelley
  11. Nicolas le Pelley
  12. Daniel le Pelley
  13. Pierre le Pelley I
  14. Pierre le Pelley II
  15. Pierre le Pelley III
  16. Ernest le Pelley
  17. Pierre Carey le Pelley
  18. Marie Collings
  19. William Thomas Collings
  20. William Frederick Collings
  21. Sibyl Hathaway
Robert Hathaway
  1. Michael Beaumont
  2. Christopher Beaumont
The heir apparent to the seigneurship is the present seigneur's elder son, Hugh Beaumont.

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