Baron Longford Baron Annaly Delvin Lord Baron Ireland

The GRANT to George Mentz (Seigneur of Fief Blondel) of: All and Singular*/Each and Every of: The Ancient Barony, Barony, Honour, Lordship, Seignory, of Longford or The Annaly Region of Ireland together with: (ALL Rights, Privileges, & Perquisites) are granted and conveyed to Dr/Jur. George Mentz, Seigneur of Fief Blondel in Aug 2018, transferred from the: Original sale of rights by The Earl of Westmeath William Anthony Nugent Feb. 7th, 1996. The deed was Registered in the Registry of Deeds (Dublin) on 26 March 1997, Book 42, No. 266.

CONVEYANCE OF FEUDAL TITLE BARONY AND SEIGNORY

The Purchase of said rights to "County Longford's" Honours Lordships, Seignorys, Feudal Barony, Baron Palatine, and Perquisites in Fee Simple by George Mentz Esq. includes the right to the Honour and Seignory/Barony by any name it may be called or known. The Feudal Lordships & Seignory of Co. Longord may be one of the most interesting ancient principalities and baronies in Irish-Anglo-Norman History. The 1996 deed transfers “all rights, privileges, and perquisites” — which would include any surviving palatine or quasi-regalian rights.

History evidences that the Kingdom of Meath was given to Hugh de Lacy. His Barons were appointed throughout the old kingdom. Baron Delvin or Gilbert de Nogent/Nugent was given the most western lands and was the only baron and lord in the Westmeath according to the Annals of Westmeath.

De Nugent came to Ireland with de Lacy in 1171 and settled land in Delvin. De Nugent was granted the title Baron of Delvin within the Lordship of Meath, a title now held by the Earl of Westmeath. The original Westmeath contained Longord County and also people of Delbna/Delvin.

In 1621, the Baron was made Earl of Westmeath. In 1996, the Earl of Westmeath deeded in fee simple his rights to honors and seignory of Longford which is the ancient region corresponding to the Principality of Annaly or Annalie which was controlled by the Chiefs and Princes of O'Farrell. Longford village was the old fort of O'Farrell. The Nugent family and O'Farrells and many other clans have intermarried over the last 800 years.

The Seigneur of Blondel has acquired any and all Feudal Baronies and Lordships and Seignories of Annaly or Longford, titular rights, honors, barony, and perquisites of the region of the Administrative County of Longford from Lord Westmeath. County Longford which is Ancient Annaly is about 269,408 statute acres or 421.5 square miles.

While Ireland is a Republic, the Nugents are also Irish and descendants of ancient princes and kings in Ireland, and when Ireland separated from Britain in Jan. 1919, the Longford-Westmeath Nugents technically became indigenous Irish princes, chiefs and lords. After the separation from Britain, the Nugents (Lords of Westmeath and Delvin), maintained their feudal rights to grants, hereditiments, perquisites, former rights, and lands in County Longford, Ireland. The Baron of Delvin and Lord Westmeath had received various grants and ownerships in Annaly, Longford, Granard, various Islands, various Castles, captainships, baronies, lordships and other heritible rights. Just like any other indigenous holders of territory, the Nugents owned an untold number of claims in Annaly or Longford. These rights were sold in 1996 and are now in the hands of the Datuk Seri George Mentz, Esq. Seigneur of Fief Blondel, Lord of Ennerdale and Lord of Stoborough.

According to O'Dugan, William Nugent or Baron Delvin is the fifth in descent from Connor O'Connor King of Meath who was brother of Cathal or Chalreas Craobhdearg who was the 51st King for Connaught and No 112 on the O'Connor Connaught pedigree. This Connor O'Connor was the brother of Roderick O'Connor the 183rd King of Ireland who died in Ad 1198. Thus, the Earl of Westmeath and Baron Delvin and Nugents would be legally considered as indigenous lord princes of Ireland and its various kingdoms.

Historically the Territory of the Longford Annaly Honour with Hereditaments, & Perquisites May Include a study of the Following:

*Mentz, Seigneur of Blondel, is a descendant of the McConnell or Mac Domnaill, McMechan McMahon, and Fleming Clans, and this ancient land and central Irish region is part of his ancestry of which immigrated from Ireland to the USA. Mentz comes from a long line of Scots Irish who are descendants of the families of: Kerr, Douglas, Campbell, McConnell, Stewarts, Drummond, McMahon, McMechan, Kirkpatrick, Boyle, De Barry, Donnel Mac Fineere Mac Carthy-Reagh, Powers, Darcy D'Arcy. FitzGerald-Leixlip, MacDonnell, Fitzjohn Barry and many more. George Mentz, Esq., who is The Seigneur of Blondel and Lord of Stoborough and the Bailiwick of Ennerdale is Scotish, English, German, French, Italian, Egyptian, Sicilian, Anatolian, Dravidian, Native American, and Irish with ancestral DNA from County Dublin, County Mayo, County Galway, County Kerry, County Donegal, County Cork and County Clare.

* ALL AND SINGULAR Definition: A comprehensive; term often employed in conveyances, wills, and the like, which includes the aggregate or whole and also each of the separate items or components. McClaskoy v. Ilarr (C. C.) 54 Fed. 798.https://thelawdictionary.org/all-and-singular/ * All and singular is a legal phrase meaning "each and every". It is an antiquated term that was commonly used in making bequests under a will, and other contexts. All and Singular Law and Legal Definition | USLegal, Inc.
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With the government showing little inclination to reach a more permanent settlement with the O’Farrells, Delvin led a raid across Lough Ree shortly before Christmas 1548.21 Despite opposition from the nearby Dillons, it seems that Delvin succeeded in gaining a foothold in the southern reaches of the O’Farrell lordship. In 1552 the crown granted the dissolved monastery of Holy Island, Lough Ree, to the baron, together with associated lands and tithes.22 This was more than a mundane grant of ecclesiastical land in one’s county of residence, which many peers, gentry and officials received: it must be viewed in the context of mid-Tudor expansionism. The government was willing in 1553 to nominate a ‘captain and governor’ of the O’Farrell Boy branch, yet allowed Delvin to build up a landholding profile within the branch’s sphere of influence on the banks of Lough Ree. Lord Deputy Croft and his advisors described these lands as in ‘a waste, wylde Countrey amonge the yrishe where lytle obedyence doth contynue’, but Delvin had announced his intention to fortify his new territory.23

The baron was also granted the monastic site at Granard, in the northeast of the Annaly lordship; this also represented a projected expansion of English influence. Before the 15th century Granard Abbey had been an exclusively English foundation, but papal order forced it to admit Gaelic men. The house quickly lost its English identity, and fell completely under O’Farrell patronage.24 Thus Delvin’s acquisition of Granard represented an effort to reincorporate former English church lands into English society. Confirmation of the achievements of Baron Richard in enhancing the importance of his house came in 1553, when he joined O’Connor Roe in a devastating raid on the MacDermots of Moylurg, a lordship situated west of the Annaly and a considerable distance from Delvin territory.25

County Longford Monastery of Holy Island Lough Ree also Granted to Lord Delvin in 1552
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ANNALY, OR LONGFORD - Principality of Annaly
Anghaile or "Annaly," which was formed out of the ancient territory of Teffia (Latin), comprised the whole of the County Longford, and was the principality of O'Farrell. His chief residence was the town of "Longford," anciently called Longphort-Ui-Fhearghail or the Fortress of O'Farrell. This territory was divided into Upper and Lower Annaly: the former comprising that part of Longford south of Granard, and a part of the County Westmeath, was possessed by O'Farrell Buidhe (or O'Farrell the Yellow); the latter, or that portion north of Granard, was possessed by O'Farrell Ban (or O'Farrell the Fair). The O'Farrells were dispossessed of this territory by Hugh de Lacy in the twelfth century.

De LACY TO THEIR KNIGHTS.
This victory at Thurles gave new courage to the Irish, as it was the first pitched battle they had won against the invaders; and now, in this year 1174, "taking head from O'Brien's success, they sprang up on all sides, and the earl could not move from Waterford."* Even there he was not long safe, for the citizens, exasperated by the licentiousness of the soldiery developed during Raymond's command, rose in arms and killed 200 of the English garrison, and Strongbow was obliged to betake himself to an island near the town. Hugh De Lacy had been parcelling out his seigniory of Meath, including the country to the banks of the Liffey, among the knights and lords who accompanied him, and they had taken pains to consolidate their settlement by the importation of men and arms, and the erection of numerous castles. To his true friend Hugh Tyrrell, De Lacy had presented Castleknock; and to William Petit, Castlebrack; to Gilbert De Nangle and his son Jocelyn, a great tract of country; to Richard Tuite, " fair possessions;" to Richard De La Chappell, "much land;" to Adam De Feipo the domains of Skryne, Clontarf, and Santry; to Gilbert De Nugent, the territory of Delvin; to William De Misset and Hugh De Hose, or Hussey," large inheritances;" to Geoffrey De Constantine, lands in O'Ferral's country of Annaly; to Thomas Le Fleming, Ardee; to "the valiant Meyler Fitz-Henry," to Robert De Lacy, to AdamDullard, to " one Thomas," and to Richard Le Fleming, large tracts also.*

The original Westmeath contained Longord County and also people of Delbna/Delvin.

The Original Grant by Hugh de Lacy to Gilbert de Nugent included all of the lands of Delvin or Delbhna. These Delvin tribes and clans of O'Fenolen or O'Finnallan existed in all of Westmeath and outside of Westmeath.

⚜️ CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF ROYAL INSTRUMENTS (1172 – 1605)

Year / Reign	Granting Authority	Instrument Type / Record	Territory or Rights Conveyed	Effect / Connection to Baron Delvin
1172 – Henry II	King Henry II of England	Royal Charter establishing the Liberty of Meath	Entire Kingdom of Meath granted to Hugh de Lacy, with palatine (quasi-regal) powers.	Foundation of the Palatinate; later Gilbert de Nugent (ancestor of Barons Delvin) became feudal tenant and hereditary sub-palatine.
c. 1202 – John I	King John	Sub-infeudation by de Lacy to Gilbert de Nugent	Feudal Barony of Delvin, including Fore and western Meath lands extending into Teffia–Annaly.	Establishes Nugent family as feudal lords; origin of Barony of Delvin.
1211 – John I / Henry III	Crown confirmation	Foundation of Abbeylara (de Leathrath) by Richard Tuite under de Lacy–Delvin suzerainty	Cistercian abbey and barony center.	Religious caput of the Fore–Delvin estates; later absorbed under Nugent tenure.
1541 (32 Henry VIII)	King Henry VIII	Letters Patent – Grant of the Priory of Fore and dependent manors	Grants to Richard Nugent, 13th Baron Delvin: the site of Fore Abbey with all its manors, lands, advowsons, courts baron, and palatine rights in Westmeath and Longford (Annaly). Includes Fore, Castle Richard, Liserdowle, Moate, Kilbride, Killashee, Ballymahon, Rathcline, Taghshinny, and Abbeyderg.	Re-establishes feudal seignory and palatine jurisdiction of Nugent family over Annaly / Longford. Marks legal start of Delvin’s overlordship in Annaly.
1552 (Edward VI)	King Edward VI	Royal Grant – “Holy Islands in Longford and Westmeath”	Grants to Richard Nugent, Baron Delvin: the Holy Island of Inchcleraun (Saints’ Island), Inchmore, and associated fisheries and lands in Lough Ree.	Extends Delvin lordship over the sacred islands of Annaly, reinforcing spiritual and territorial sovereignty.
1557 (Philip & Mary)	Philip & Mary, Sovereigns of England & Ireland	Royal confirmation and restitution	Restores and re-confirms to Baron Delvin the lands previously held by his father, acknowledging services to the Crown.	Legal continuation of the Fore–Annaly estates under Crown sovereignty.
1565 (Elizabeth I)	Queen Elizabeth I	Royal Patent – “Captaincy of Slewght William” (Slewght-Uilliam, i.e. Eastern Annaly)	Creates and confirms Richard Nugent, Baron Delvin as Captain of the Country of Slewght William, including Mostrim (Edgeworthstown), Ardagh, Granard, Lisryan, and Teffia-border territories.	Establishes a hereditary feudal and military captainship, giving the Delvin barony princely authority over Annaly and Teffia; effectively the Count Palatine of Meath extended westward.
1603 (James I)	King James I	Letters of recognition and favor	Recognition of Christopher Nugent, 14th Baron Delvin as loyal subject after Tudor wars.	Continues hereditary rights of Nugent/Delvin in Annaly and Meath.
1605 (James I)	King James I	Royal Grant – Markets and Courts Baron in Longford Town	Grants Richard Nugent, Lord Delvin rights to hold weekly markets and courts baron in Longford, the shire capital.	Confirms palatine jurisdiction and urban lordship over Longford; establishes Delvin’s seignorial courts and commercial sovereignty in the region.
1621–1622 (James I)	King James I	Creation of Earl of Westmeath	Elevates Richard Nugent, 1st Earl of Westmeath (15th Baron Delvin).	Consolidates all former Delvin palatine, baronial, and captaincy lands into a hereditary Earldom and County Palatine dignity.

🕰️ Historical Arc of Delvin–Annaly Jurisdiction

🏰 Principal Territories Under Delvin / Westmeath Jurisdiction

Elizabeth R. 56. The Queen to the Lord Deputy and the Lord Chancellor.
“Right trustie and well beloved, we greet you well: we are pleased to grant to our right trustie and well beloved, the Baron of Delvin, his heirs and assigns, in fee-farm, our castles, manors, lands, tenements, tithes, and other hereditaments whatsoever, which shall be found by office (inquisition), or other sufficient matter of recorde, to have been the possessions and lands of such persons as have been slayne in actual rebellion against us, sithence the twentieth day of June, in the five-and-thirtieth year of our reign, or of such rebels as hereafter shall be attainted for like cause, and situate in the Country of Breny, called the countie of Cavan, or in the countrie of the Anally, called the countie of Longforde, or in both, amounting to the cleare yearly value of one hundred pounds of lawful money of England, at the choice of the Baron, his heirs and assigns, if the same shall be by you thought meete to be passed from us, and not found fit to be reserved in our hands for the use of any garrison or fortification; according to such rents, compositions, and services, as the premises shall appear to have been heretofore helde of us, if any suche shall be founde upon the records of our Exchequer, or else upon reasonable survey to be taken for us, according to the course of our Exchequer in like cases; wherefore our will and pleasure is, and we do authorize and require you, when the Lord of Delvin, his heirs or assigns, or any for him or them, shall bringe unto you any note or notes of any such lands or hereditaments in the counties of Cavan and Longford, then ye shall give him, his heirs and assigns, means, from time to time, to have the just particulars thereof at the hands of our auditor there; and thereupon cause, by advice of our learned Council, one or more books of so much of the castles, manors, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, as shall amount to the value of £1oo, current money of England, in the counties of Cavan and Longford, to be granted from us, our heirs and successors, in fee-farm, to the said Lord of Delvin, his heirs and assigns for ever, by letters patent under our Great Seal of Ireland ; reserving to us, our heirs and successors, such rents, compositions, and services yearly, as shall be founde by office, survey, or recorde, to have been heretofore paid, or to be hereafter meete to be reserved for any of the said lands and hereditaments, proportionably to the quantity of the lands and hereditaments, unto us or our predecessors; To be holden of us, our heirs and successors, by knight's service, in capite ; with a provisoe to be inserted in such letters patent of the lands to be made to the Baron, that he shall not alienate them, or any part of them, to any of the meere Irishrie or others, who shall not be of English descent; and also we require you, our Council, the Barons of the Exchequer, and all other our officers, to whom it shall appertain, to further the Baron, his heirs and assigns, in the expedition of this our grant : further, for that we have been advertized by you of the chargeable and valorous service of the Baron, during the late rebellion, and of his sufficiencye therein to do us service, and as we understand from him, that for the prosecution of the rebells, which we intend, our forces must be used and employed in his country, we do, therefore, thiuk it fit, and so require you, that of our forces which shall be in our pay, some parte may be assigned to his charge and governmente, either of horse or foote, as you, with the advice of our Council, shall find to be answerable to his degree, ability, and good deserte.”—Palace of Westminster, May 7, 39°.
Memorandum of the Lord Baron of Delvin, having on the 1st of June, in the year aforesaid, come before the Master of the Rolls, and having prayed that the preceding letter should be enrolled, it was accordingly ordered by— A. Sentleger.
Membrane 7.
Elizabeth R.

Writs and Summons of the: Barons/Lord of Westmeath/Annaly and Longford to Attend Parliament

Below is one of the Barony Grants by King James - Including Grants in Fee Simple of: The Holy Island in Annaly, the tithes of the lands of Rathline and Cashell and tithes and rectories of the region. Castle of Monilagan or Babington, Castle and Moiety of of Newton, Island of Cloning, Lands of the Abbey of Larha, Castle of Lisnevoa.

Grants to Hold in fee farm forever in common soccage and to maintain two horseman/knights from the Pale for the defence of the kingdom.

The clause in the 1996 Deed of Transfer is legally significant because it confirms that the property conveyed — the Feudal Barony or Honour of Longford — is not land but an incorporeal hereditament, and therefore exempt from Section 112 of the Finance Act 1940. That Act imposes stamp duties and taxes on the transfer of land and interests in land; however, a feudal barony is a title of dignity and jurisdiction, not a physical estate. It is a remnant of the medieval system of landholding, existing today as an intangible right of honour and precedence. By certifying that the Finance Act does not apply, the deed establishes that this transaction concerns the transfer of a feudal dignity, not a conveyance of real property. This protects the purchasers from unnecessary property tax liabilities and ensures the barony’s treatment as a distinct legal entity — a heritable noble title rather than taxable land. The clause also provides evidence that the Irish Registry of Deeds recognized the conveyance as a lawful transfer of a feudal title in fee simple, reinforcing the continuity of the barony’s legal existence as a juridical honour, independent of any land or manor once attached to it.

Honour of Annaly - Feudal Principality & Seignory Est. 1172

The Honour of Annaly Longford - Baron Annaly - Feudal Principality The Princes and Seigneurs of the Honour of Annaly Teffia

Dossier of the Grant of Feudal Seignory and Honour of Annaly and Longford : Kingdoms of Teffia Annaly and Meath

CONVEYANCE OF FEUDAL TITLE BARONY AND SEIGNORY

⚜️ CHRONOLOGICAL CHART OF ROYAL INSTRUMENTS (1172 – 1605)

🕰️ Historical Arc of Delvin–Annaly Jurisdiction

🏰 Principal Territories Under Delvin / Westmeath Jurisdiction

Writs and Summons of the: Barons/Lord of Westmeath/Annaly and Longford to Attend Parliament

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