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Encyclopedia Britannica



RIVERS, EARL

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 385 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RHY-RON
RIVERS, EARL , an English title held in succession by the families of Woodville or Wydeville, Darcy and Savage. In 1299 John Rivers, or de Ripariis, was summoned to
parliament
  as a baron, and his son John was similarly summoned by
Edward
  II. The earldom was created for Sir Richard Woodville in 1466 and remained in this family until 1491. (For the three earls of his line see below.) As borne by the Woodvilles the title was not derived from the name of a place, but from an ancient family name, Redvers, or Reviers, members of this family, whose arms are quartered on the Rivers shield, having been sometime earls of
Devon
 .
From 1626 to his death in 164o the earldom was held by
Thomas
  Darcy, Viscount Colchester, from whom it descended by
special
 
remainder
  to his grandson John (c. 16101654), the son of his daughter Elizabeth (d. 1651) by her
marriage
  with Sir
Thomas
  Savage (d. 1635), who was created Viscount Savage in 1626. John's son Thomas (c. 16261694) was the 3rd
earl
 , and his grandson Richard the 4th
earl
  (see below). The title became
extinct
  when John, the 5th earl, died about 1735.
A new barony of Rivers, held by the family of Pitt and its later representative, that of Pitt-Rivers, was in existence from 1776 to i880.


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