The title Baron Maltravers or Mautravers was created in the Peerage of England on 25 January and 23 October 1330 when John Maltravers was summoned to Parliament by writs directed ''Iohanni Mautravers Iuniori''. The barony fell into abeyance among his granddaughters and coheirs, Joan and Eleanor, at his death on 16 February 1364. At the death of Joan without issue,

Eleanor Eleanor () is a feminine given name, originally from an Old French adaptation of the Old Provençal name ''Aliénor''. It is the name of a number of women of royalty and nobility in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The name was introd ...

became, according to modern doctrine, ''de jure'' Baroness Maltravers. The barony later became a subsidiary title of the

Earl of Arundel Earl of Arundel is a title of nobility in England, and one of the oldest extant in the English peerage. It is currently held by the Duke of Norfolk, and is used (along with the Earl of Surrey) by his heir apparent as a courtesy title. The ...

and subsequently the

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Barons Maltravers (1330)

John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers (1290?–1364) was an English nobleman and soldier. Early life He was son of Sir John Maltravers (1266–1343?) of Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, born by his first wife Eleanor, about 1290. He was knighted, as ...

(c.1290 – 16 February 1364) (in abeyance) *

Eleanor Maltravers Eleanor Maltravers, or Mautravers, ( 1345 – January 1405) was an English noblewoman. The granddaughter and eventual heiress of the first Baron Maltravers, she married two barons in succession and passed her grandfather's title to her grandson ...

(c.1345 – 12 January 1405), granddaughter (abeyance terminated c. 1383) * John FitzAlan, 13th Earl of Arundel (1385–1421), grandson, styled Baron Maltravers after the death of his grandmother, Eleanor, on 10 January 1405.Richardson states that Eleanor died 12 January 1405. For further holders of the title see

and

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* * *Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 21–31, 59–32, 59–33, 59–34. *Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, Page 2098 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Maltravers, Baron Barons Maltravers Baronies in the Peerage of England Noble titles created in 1330