"Byron wrote a letter to John Hanson from Newstead Abbey, dated 17 January 1809, that includes "You will discharge my Cook, & Laundry Maid, the other two I shall retain to take care of the house, more especially as the youngest is pregnant (I need not tell you by whom) and I cannot have the girl on the parish." His reference to "The youngest" is understood to have been to a maid, Lucy, and the parenthesised remark to indicate himself as siring a son born that year. In 2010 part of a baptismal record was uncovered which apparently said: "September 24 George illegitimate son of Lucy Monk, illegitimate son of Baron Byron, of Newstead, Nottingham, Newstead Abbey"
In england... A bastard (born outside wedlock) cannot inherit his father's title or any property entailed to it. Illegitimate children whose parents subsequently marry are legitimated, but remain ineligible to inherit. He could be raised to the peerage, i.e. given his own title, by the monarch, but he can't inherit one because that would break the system of primogeniture.
"Byron wrote a letter to John Hanson from Newstead Abbey, dated 17 January 1809, that includes "You will discharge my Cook, & Laundry Maid, the other two I shall retain to take care of the house, more especially as the youngest is pregnant (I need not tell you by whom) and I cannot have the girl on the parish." His reference to "The youngest" is understood to have been to a maid, Lucy, and the parenthesised remark to indicate himself as siring a son born that year. In 2010 part of a baptismal record was uncovered which apparently said: "September 24 George illegitimate son of Lucy Monk, illegitimate son of Baron Byron, of Newstead, Nottingham, Newstead Abbey"
In england... A bastard (born outside wedlock) cannot inherit his father's title or any property entailed to it. Illegitimate children whose parents subsequently marry are legitimated, but remain ineligible to inherit. He could be raised to the peerage, i.e. given his own title, by the monarch, but he can't inherit one because that would break the system of primogeniture.
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