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The Lord High Steward is the first of the Great Officers of State in England, nominally ranking above the Lord Chancellor. The office has generally remained vacant since 1421, and is now an ad hoc office that is primarily ceremonial and is filled only for a coronation. At coronations of the British monarch, the Lord High Steward bears St Edward ...
The Lord High Steward (formally the Lord High Steward of England) has the sole power to preside over the impeachment trials of peers, [10] the last of which happened in 1806. The most visible duty of the Lord High Steward today, even though purely ceremonial, is bearing St Edward's Crown at the coronations of monarchs.
William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, holding his white staff of office (portrait dated AD 1567, the year he was appointed Lord Steward).. Within the Curia Regis, the office of Steward of the King's Household was indistinguishable from that of Lord (High) Steward of England, which had first been introduced to the realm under William the Conqueror (and which was by the end of the 12th century ...
The title of Lord High Steward of Ireland was first bestowed in 1446 upon the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury by way of letters patent from King Henry VI. He was named Earl of Waterford and granted the hereditary office of Lord High Steward, to be passed down through the male heirs of his line. [ 13 ]
The Lord High Steward of England held a position of power in the 12th to 14th centuries, and the Lord Steward is the first dignitary of the court. The Stewart family traces its appellation to the office of the High Steward of Scotland. Lord High Steward of Ireland is a hereditary office held since the 15th century.
This category includes articles on the holders of the various Great Offices of State in the United Kingdom or in any of its constituent countries.Great Offices of state include: Lord High Steward, Lord High Chancellor, Lord High Treasurer, Lord President of the Council, Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord Privy Seal, Lord High Constable of England, Lord High Constable of Scotland, Earl Marshal and ...
Lord Stanley was soon forgiven for his disloyalty. After the restoration of Edward IV in 1471, he was appointed steward of the king's household and thereafter became a regular member of the royal council. Yet, the death of his first wife, Eleanor Neville at this period severed his connection with Warwick and the Nevilles and allowed in 1472 a ...
A Chronicle of England - Page 167 - Becket Forbids the Earl of Leceister to Pass Sentence on Him.jpg. Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (1104 – 5 April 1168) was Justiciar of England 1155–1168. [1] The surname "de Beaumont" was given to him by genealogists. The only known contemporary surname applied to him is "Robert son of Count ...