Baron Everingham (aka Everyngham) is an abeyant title in the Peerage of England. It was created by Writ of summons to Parliament of Adam de Everingham of Laxton, Nottinghamshire, on 4 March 1309. It passed to his son Adam but fell into abeyance upon the death of his childless grandson Robert in 1371.
Arms of Baron Everingham:- Gules, a lion rampant vair variation = crowned or[1]
Named after the village of Everingham, Yorkshire the de Everinghams moved to Laxton in the thirteenth century and subsequently branched out to Kiplingcotes and Sherburn and Lincolnshire. The first of the Laxton Everinghams was Robert de Everingham who married the heiress of the Birkin family[2] and in doing so brought the hereditary position of Keeper of Sherwood Forest to the family. The three generations that preceded the Barons are:-
Sir Robert de Everingham (died 1236), m. Isabel, daughter of John Birkin, Keeper of Sherwood Forest.
Robert de Everingham (b. ~1368) was to become 3rd Baron Everingham, as son of William de Everingham (d. 16 August 1369) and grandson of the 2nd Baron, but died 27 December 1370 in his minority thus the Barony fell into abeyance between his sisters Joan (b. ~1362) and Katherine (b. ~1363) when the 2nd Baron died.
John Burke (1883), Sir Bernard A Burke (ed.), Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Scotland and Ireland, extinct, dormant and in abeyance (hardback), London: Burkes Peerage, p.193
