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Up for sale a RARE! "3rd Baron Montfort" Henry Bromley Hand Signed Free Frank Dated 1825.
created twice in British history. The first creation came in the Peerage of England when John de Montfort
was summoned to parliament on 23 June 1295. In 1367 the title either became
extinct or fell into abeyance on the death of the third Baron. The
second creation came in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1741
when Henry Bromley was
made Lord Montfort, Baron of Horseheath, in the County of
Cambridge. He
had previously as had his father John Bromley and grandfather John Bromley. Lord Montfort was succeeded
by his only son, the second Baronet. He sat as Member of Parliament for the city
of Cambridge. The title
became extinct on the death of his son, the third Baron, in 1851. The second
family descended from the 16th century Lord
Chancellor Sir Thomas
Bromley and Lord Chief Justice of the same name and
were still in the 18th century equally recorded with the alternative spelling
and pronunciation Montford. This is a corruption as 'Montfort'
means a fortified mountain or mound as in Montfort l'Amaury, the place of birth of Simon I de Montfort their 11th century
French patriarch. Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of
Leicester led to the first Parliament called to act as a check
on the monarch in 1295 and was commonly known as Simon de Montford hence the
unusually long continuation in the alternative spelling, see Montfort for examples.
