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I30 DEINCOURT Her heir was her grandson, Francis Lovell, Lord Lovell, who was aged 1 8 years and 5 months in June 1474. Any hereditary Baronies of Deincourt and Grey (of Rotherfield), that may be supposed to have been created by writs of 1299 and 1338 respectively, were thus united to the Barony of Lovell. DEINCOURT OF SUTTON BARONY. I. "Francis Leeke, of Sutton, co. Derby, Knt. and . f. Bart.,"C) was on 26 Oct. 1624 cr. "BARON DEIN- 1. 1624. COURT OF SUTTON, co. Derby."(0 He was, on 1 1 Nov. 1645, ^^- EARL OF SCARSDALE, co. Derby. See "ScARSDALE," Earldom of, cr. 1645; extinct I736.() DEIVILLEC=) Sir John d'Eiville (correctly de Daiville),() of Egmanton, (cos. Oxon, Gloucester, Northants), or 20 and more (co. Lincoln), as before. Francis is called "nunc dominus Lovell'" (co. Gloucester), and his father, "nuper dominus Lovell' or de Lovell']" (cos. York, Wilts, and Gloucester). (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. IV, file 47, no. 64; file 52, no. 31: Exch. Inq. p. m., I, file 228, no. 2). (=■) See Creations, 1 483-1 646, in App., 47th Rep., D.K. Public Records. i^) By Royal lie, 27 July 1835, Charles Tennyson (a younger br. of the Poet's father) took the name and arms of D'Eyncourt, in compliance with his father's testa- mentary direction, "in order to commemorate (i) his descent from the ancient and noble family of D'Eyncourt, Barons D'Eyncourt of Blankney, and (2) his represen- tation in blood as coh. [not of the family of Deincourt, but] of the Earls of Scarsdale, Barons D'Eyncourt of Sutton." As to the latter statement, the petitioner's grand- mother (whom he did not represent), Elizabeth Clayton, was da. and h. of Dorothy Hildyard, who was a granddaughter and coh. of Lady Anne Leeke, one of the six daughters (whose issue became co-representatives) of Sir Francis Leeke, cr. Earl of Scarsdale and Baron Deincourt of Sutton. This might be some reason (especially if any property had been inherited, which is not likely and certainly was not alleged) for taking the surname of Leeke, but none for taking the name of one of the peerage dignities of the Leeke family as a surname. As to the first statement, there is indeed a descent of Tennyson, through Clayton, Hildyard, Pitt, Savage, Parker, and Lovell, from Deincourt, but the representation of the family of Deincourt is in the descendants (and these are to be numbered by thousands) of John, Lord Lovell, and not in those of his younger brother, William Lovell, Lord Morley, from whom the Tennysons are descended; moreover, the family of Hildyard did not ever in any way represent that of Pitt (afterwards Barons Rivers), whose numerous representatives are also those of this William Lovell, himself but a younger son. (<=) This article is by G. W. Watson. V.G. (^) The arms of this family were. Or, a fesse Gules, and semy of fleurs-de-lis, counterchanged. The surname of Robert, dominus de Kilburne in 1147, is written de Davidvilla in the Register of Byland Abbey {Monasticon, vol. v, p. 351), and he appears as a witness to several charters of Roger de Moubray as Rohertus de Daievilla