Viscount Valentia

Francis Ensley, 1st Viscount Valentia

Viscount Valentia ( eng. Viscount Valentia ) - the hereditary peer title of Ireland , created twice in British history.

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The first time the title of the Viscount Valentia was created in 1621 for Henry Power. A year later, his relative, Sir Francis Ensley, 1st Baronet (1583–1660), received a royal grant for the Viscount Valentia title. The Anglo-Irish genus Ensley was descended from Newport-Pagnell in Buckinghamshire . Francis Ansley was the favorite of the King of England, Jacob I Stewart , who granted him possessions in Ireland, in particular Mountnorris fortress in Armagh County . He was knighted in 1616 , in 1620 received the title of baronet from Newport-Pagnell in Buckinghamshire , and in 1628 became baron Mountnorris of Mountnorris in County Armagh ( baronet of Ireland ).

Arthur Ensley, 1st Earl of Anglesey and 2nd Viscount Valentia

In 1642, after the death of Henry Power, Francis Ansley received the title of Viscount Valentia . His grandson William Ensley, 1st Viscount of Glerawly (1710-1770), became the ancestor of the Counts of Ensley . In 1660, Francis was succeeded by his eldest son Arthur Ansley, 2nd Viscount Valentia (1614-1686), who in 1661 received the title of Baron Ansley from Newport-Pagnell in Buckinghamshire and Earl of Angles in Wales (the peer of England). Eltham Ensley (d. 1699 ), the youngest son of the 1st Earl of Anglesey, in 1681 received the title of Baron Eltham ( peerage of Ireland ).

In 1737, after the death of Arthur Ensley, the 5th Earl of Anglesey (1678–1737), the senior line of the Ensley family was cut short. He was succeeded by a distant relative Richard Ensley, the 6th Baron Eltham (1694–1761), the youngest son of Richard Ansley, the 3rd Baron Eltham (1655-1701), who became the 6th Earl of Angles and the 7th Viscount of Valentius. Soon against him, his nephew James Ensley (1715–1760), the only son of Arthur Ensley, 4th Baron Eltham (1689–1727), started a lawsuit. He was rejected by his father, after whose death in 1727 the title of Baron Eltem was transferred to his younger brother Richard Ansley. In 1728, 12-year-old James was abducted and taken to North America, where he was sold into slavery . In 1740, after 12 years of slavery, he fled from the Delaware colony to Jamaica, from where he arrived in England in September. In November 1743, he filed a lawsuit against his uncle Richard Ansley, earl of Anglesey, claiming his father's title and possession. Richard Ansley stated that James is not the legitimate son of Mary Sheffield, the second wife of the 4th Baron Eltham, and his mother is Joan Landy. James Ansley won a lawsuit against his uncle. James Ansley received his father's estate, but could not get the title of count, which was still owned by his uncle.

In 1761, after the death of Richard Ensley, the 6th Earl of Anglesey, his son and heir Arthur Ansley (1744–1816) assumed the title of the 7th Earl of Anglesey and the 8th Vicomte Valentia. But on April 22, 1771, the British House of Lords ruled that his claims for the titles of the Earl of Anglesie and Baron Ansley were invalid and that these titles were extinguished after the death of his father. But Arthur Ansley’s claims of a baronet from Newport-Pagnell, Baron Mountnorris and Elthom and Viscount Valentia were twice confirmed by the Irish Lords . In 1793, he received the title of Earl Mountnorris (the Irish party ) as compensation. In 1844, after the death of his son George Ensley, 2nd Earl of Mountnorris (1770–1844), the titles of Earl Mountnorris and Baron Elthom were cut short. But the titles of Baronet , Baron Mountnorris, and Viscount Valentia were inherited by his distant relative Arthur Ansley (1785–1863), who became the 10th Viscount of Valentia. He was a male line descendent of Francis Ansley, the fourth son of the 1st Viscount Valentius.

Arthur Ensley, the 11th Viscount of Valentia (1843–1927), on May 7, 1917, was elevated to the barons of Ensley from Bletchington in Oxfordshire , becoming the peer of the United Kingdom. In 1949, after the death of his grandson Carol Arthur Ansley, the 12th Viscount of Valentius (1883–1949), the title of Baron Ansley stopped. But the title of the Viscount Valentia was inherited by his distant relative, Reverend William Moncton Ensley (1875-1951), who became the 13th Viscount of Valentius. He was also a descendant of the Honorable Francis Ansley, the fourth son of the 1st Viscount Valentius. He was succeeded by his cousin Francis Dayton Ensley (1888-1983), who claimed his title to the title and in 1959 became the 14th Viscount of Valentius. He was the son of George Daytona Ensley, uncle of the 13th Viscount Valentius. In 1983, his only son Richard John Dayton Ensley, 15th Viscount Valentia (1929–2005) inherited titles. He was a captain in the British army, then he was engaged in farming in Zimbabwe , from where he returned to England in the early 1980s. In 2005, he was succeeded by his eldest son Francis William Dayton Ensley, the 16th Viscount Valentia (born 1959). Lord Valentia is also the first baronet of Ireland .