We are delighted to be able to preserve a small piece of English history by holding the title of feudal Barony of Patrixbourne.

Welcome to the website of the English feudal Barony of Patrixbourne.

The Barony of Patrixbourne is a piece of historic England, located in close proximity to the cathedral city of Canterbury.

Patrixbourne is a rural English village in the county of Kent, about 3 miles south-east of Canterbury. The region consists largely of agricultural hills and woodland. Patrixbourne borders Bekesbourne to the north.

The manor of Patrixbourne was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. The barony has an eventful and extensive history. The current 12th Baron of Patrixbourne, is pleased to keep alive such a small part of the fascinating English history.
It seems that the family of Lord Richard Fitz William used the name Patrick as a surname in 1086 and conducted their English rule in this way.
Based on the last edition of the Cartae Baronum of 1166, this barony was not included despite Sanders' unequivocal statement.

The reference authority is Sanders, English Baronies

In today's modern England, the title of barony continues to exist and is regarded as a legally recognised possession. The title is held independently of its historic rights as a so-called incorporeal hereditament.

Kent:

This was one of three Saxon kingdoms which developed in England south of the Thames; the other two were Sussex and Wessex. It was the earliest of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to be established. The traditional date of its beginning is 449 AD, nearly a hundred years before the establishment of Bernicia in the north. Kent, on account of its nearness to Gaul, had always had close trading and cultural relations with the continent. It became the most advanced, both materially and culturally of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. In its early days it was also the most powerful of them. Its greatest King, and its first to become really known in history, was Athelbert, 560-616. He was third in Bede’s list of Bretwaldas and he appears to have exercised some kind of suzerainty over all England south of the Humber river. He was also the first Anglo-Saxon King to commit to writing the laws and customs of his people, another indication of the relatively high degree of culture in this part of England. His marriage to the Christian Bertha, daughter of King Charibert of Paris, gave him some knowledge of and perhaps sympathy with the Christian religion and in 597 he received the mission of St. Augustine and forty monks with tolerance and friendliness. He later became a Christian and no doubt played his part as royal patron in the building of the well-known group of churches of Augustine’s time.

https://www.wilcuma.org.uk/kent/