The Earl of MansfieldLord Cockpool
Lord Stormont, (other titles are peerages)
The Rt Hon The Earl of Mansfield (Alexander David Mungo Murray, 9th Earl of Mansfield, Viscount of Stormont, Lord Scone and Lord Balvaird in the peerage - Lord Cockpool, and Lord Stormont in the baronage of Scotland)
peer addressed as My Lord or Lord Mansfield
Credentials
- • Lord of Cockpool RPS, 1669/10/92 (23 December 1669) rps.ac.uk/trans/1669/10/92
- • No. 508, 18 May 1642. Andrew, Lord Balvaird in the lands of the lordship and barony of Stormont archive.org/…/1up
- • 🚩 On the style "Lord Cockpool": the Great Seal erected Cockpool as a barony, "in unam liberam baroniam de Cokpule" (RMS ii, no. 3194, 15 February 1507/8; archive.org/…/n696). The lordship in the ratification of 1669 cited above is a joint one: the lands are "united, erected and incorporated in a whole and free viscountdom, lordship and barony, to be called in all time coming the viscountdom of Stormont, lordship of Balvaird, Cockpool and Lochmaben". No separate erection of a lordship of Cockpool has yet been identified. Searched: the Register of the Great Seal (vols ii to viii, 1424 to 1633) and the Retours (to 1700); not searched: the Great Seal after 1633, the Privy Seal and the Register of Sasines.
- • PLEDGED HEREDITARY TITLE, pledged by the Roll: baronies held across generations are treated by the Roll, for its own purposes, as de facto hereditary. The title becomes unrecognised by the Roll if the barony is later conveyed outside the family, in accordance with Roll policy.
A note on terminology: “Scottish feudal barony” or “feudal title” is an incorrect, defunct historical term for extant barons. Baronies were feudal until 28 November 2004, when feudal baronies were abolished and the dignity of baron was retained — an extant barony is no longer “feudal”. The correct term is Scottish barony or Scottish baron (or baron, lord or earl in the Baronage of Scotland, collectively the minor barons of Scotland); never “feudal baron”. Why the term is defunct →
A barony pledged on the Roll of Scottish Barons is treated by the Roll as hereditary and not in commercio. A pledged barony later conveyed outside the family forfeits its recognition on the Roll in perpetuity. What “Hereditary on the Roll” means →