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 .SAINT LEVAN — SMUT MAUR. 23 Family Estates. — These, in 1S83, consisted o£ 5131 acres in Cornwall, worth £3,949 it year, ami 1,421 in Devon, worth £91,268 a y«ar.(«). Tulnl 8,553 acres, worth £»5,212 a yew.(™) Principal Residence. St. Michael's Uionut, near Marazion, co. Cornwall. SAINT LIZ. />., "Saint Liz,() B.imhv {Fdldiny), cr, 1G63/1 ; sec "Denbigh" Earldom, cr. 1022, s«(< the second Karl. SAINT MAUR or SEYMOUR. Barony by /. Nicholas St. Maur, s. hii.I li. of Laurence St. Maur, Writ. ,,f Koiltt, en. Somerset, by sil.il, a, relict ..f sir Uoger 1a;mi.ev, da. and [ 1313 coheir of Hugh ue MoilKWlCK. of Mmvwick, co. Ni.riliuinberliiml, nerval in nil the expeditions to Scotland, 121LS — 1305. He in. firstly Kra D8 Mkvsv with ulioui he hud lamia at Kt.m Meysy, co. Wilta, and Hampton Meysy. oo. Gloucester. He m. secondly Klennor, da and (in 1314, when she was aged 27), coheir of Alan ZoI'liie Limn Zoi'eHK, of Ashhy, co. Leicester, hy Eleanor, da. of Nicholas DB SkoHaYK. In conse.piencc probably of this alliance^; he was .sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LOUD SAINT MA UK) by writs, 29 July (1813a 8 Ed. II.. anil ti Oct. (1315), !' K.I. II. He ,/. (131(5-17;, 10 Ed. II. £sch., 10 Ed, II. His widow (d) n». Alan DC Chaui.tun. raised to the peerage, the ttppellationa of no less thau thre: SainlsJ. should form his surname and title of honour. Of the seven Saints (St. Alban, St. (irrmau, St. John, St. Leonard, St. Levan, St. Oswald, and St. Vincent; now represented in the house of Lords, rive are very unfortunate as to the character of tlte pedigree of tin 4 person holding their name, viz., (1) St. Alban, represented by the bastard issue of Nell Owynne, and (2) St. Levan, by the bastard (tho' thrice sanctified) issue of Miss Vinicunbe, while (3) St. Vincent, (4 ) St. Oswald, mid (5) St. Leonard, held by the families of Kicketts (now Jet-vis), Williamson (now Winn), and Sugden, are indeed redeemed from any imputa- tion of bastardy ; but their pedigree is of the shortest, and iu the last two families it does not go back farther than the paternal rjrainifuthcr in one case, and the father in thf other, of the first peer. ( a ) "This is a case where, thro' including in the ground landlord's name the whole rents, the nominal is greatly in excess oj the real income " [Bateman's " Great Landowners," 1883]. ( b ) This strange creation, whereby a Barony was conferred on a person who already possessed one of much earlier date, was apparently for a double purpose, viz. (1) to represent the grantee's claim to a descent from St. Liz, Karl of Northampton, and (2) " to give him the opportunity of introducing the Hapsburg claim into the patent." See a masterly aaticle by .1. H. hound in " The Genealogist," N.S., vol. x, pp. 193 — 206 (p. 204, note 1), entitled " Otir English llapsburgs ; a yrcat delusion " in which this latter claim is fully discussed and fully disestablished. C) The remarks of K Townsend thereon are as follows :— " I am of opinion that the first Nicholas St. Maur was sum. to Part, by reason of his marriage with the eldest of the two daughters ami coheirs of the Lord Zouche of Ashby as was also (in my opinion) Robert de Holand, by reason of his marriage with the other da. and coheir. Lord Zouche died anno 7 Ed. II. and both St. Maur and Holand were sum. for the first time, the next year following his death ; and what confirms me in that opinion is that Thomas St. Maur, the s. ami h. of Nicholas, by his first wife, and who, if the dignity had been of his father's inheritance, would no doubt have been sum. when he came of age, was (tl.o he survived his father upwards of 40 years) never Bum. at all. It is true that Nicholas, the son of the second wife, was not sum. till [1351], 25 Ed. III., tho' he must have been of full age long before, but this tends, 1 think, rather to confirm than confute my opinion, because his mother was alive during all that period, and that which was her inheritance, tho' it might be enjoyed by her hushaud during his life, could not pass to her sou till her death." [CM. Top. cl Gen., vol. vii, p. 158.] t d ) The will of a " Lady Eleanor St. Maur " (most probably this lady) was proved May 1343 at Lincoln,