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Updated: June 23, 2025
If the Turrald barony was called out of abeyance it was an act of Royal grace and favour. They had no rights he insisted on that and any attempt to influence the Crown about the line of succession might endanger the claim. And now Robert Turold was dead in the midst of his plans dead when he had almost gained the peak of his dreams. It seemed incredible, almost impossible.
The daughters entered a convent and followed their parents to the grave within a few years, the Crown resumed the estate, and the title had remained in abeyance ever since. But the last Lord Turrald had a brother Simon, a roystering blade and lawless adventurer, who disappeared some years before his elder brother's death.
He traced the wanderings of his ancestors through different generations and different counties to Robert Turold, who established himself in Suffolk forty years after the last Lord Turrald was laid to rest in his family vault in the village church of Great Missenden. The construction of this portion of his family tree occupied Robert Turold for ten years.
"I know very little of such matters, but in view of our family's probable entry into the ranks of the old nobility I have deemed it my duty to make myself acquainted, to some extent, with the history of the Turrald title and peerage law.
The Saxons were never very glib at Norman-French, and there was no standardized spelling of family names at that period." "It would be interesting to know how the name of Simon came to be bestowed upon the Simon Turrald who fled to Cornwall after Bosworth. The name is Biblical not Norman.
The line of descent is clear, if the proofs of your brother's statement are found. The Turrald barony is a parliamentary peerage which descends to a sole daughter. You can only succeed your brother in the line of descent if she is illegitimate." "In any case the present claim could not be gone on with, could it?" "No. That must be withdrawn.
There was a manuscript in monkish hand, setting forth, "in the name of God, Amen," the secret history of Simon, as divulged by him on his deathbed for the information of his two sons. In this confession he claimed kinship with the last Lord Turrald of Great Missenden. But he had not dared to claim the title and rich estates on his brother's death, because he was a proscribed man.
It was his great moment, the moment for which he had lived for twenty years, and it compensated him for all his worry, delayed expectation, fruitless labour, and the bitter taste of the waters of despair. "I shall be Turrald of Great Missenden," he said, and again the expression of his face showed what the words meant to him. "Bob! So you've actually succeeded after all!" Mrs.
"The House of Lords will require proof on that point, will they not?" "I shall be able to satisfy them," returned Robert Turold. "The first Robert Turold reverted to the Norman spelling when he settled in Suffolk. Turrald is the corrupted form, doubtless due to early Saxon difficulties with Norman names.
I understand that the Turrald barony was a barony by writ whatever that may be. The point is that if my brother had lived to restore it, the title, on his death, would have descended to his only daughter, if she had been born in wedlock. As she is illegitimate, the title would have descended to me, and after me to my son."
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