Lords of Cemais

The Lords of Cemais were the ruling families, from the early 12th century of the Marcher Lordship (aka Palatine Barony) ^[1] of Kemes, and in later centuries of the barony of Cemais (Dyfed).

• Martin de Turribus, fl. 1090's.
• Robert fitz Martin, c.1095? - died c.1159
• William I FitzMartin, c.1155-1209, husband of Angharad, daughter of Rhys ap Gruffydd, prince of the briefly re-established Deheubarth.
• William II FitzMartin, 1177? -1216
• Sir Nicholas I FitzMartin, 1210–1282, who granted land in the Preseli Hills^[2] to a son of Cuhelyn the Bard [cy], a famous poet.^[2][3]
• Nicholas II FitzMartin (1235 - 1285){^[1]
• William Martin, 1st Baron Martin, 1257–1324^[1]
• William, Lord Martin, 1296–1326; his sole heir was his cousin, the son of his deceased aunt, Joan, the wife of the first Baron Audley:^[1]
• James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley, 1312–1386
• Nicholas Audley, 3rd Baron Audley, c.1330-1391; title went into abeyance until being inherited by his sister's son:
• John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley, d. 1409
• James Tuchet, 5th Baron Audley, d. 1459
• John Tuchet, 6th Baron Audley, d. 1491
• James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, c.1465-1497, who was executed for treason and the Marcher Lorship forfeit. It was eventually re-established as a Barony, in the year of the Laws in Wales Acts (which abolished all Marcher Lordships), for his son:
• John Tuchet, 8th Baron Audley, d. 1558, who sold it in 1539 to
• William Owen, c. 1488–1574, a local lawyer
• George Owen, 1552–1613
• Alban Owen, 1580–1656
• David Owen, fl. 1651
• William Owen, c.1654-1721
• Elizabeth Owen, d. 1746
• Anne Owen, d. c.1720?
• William Lloyd, d. 1734
• Anne Lloyd, c. 1715-1775
• Colonel Thomas Lloyd, 1740–1807
• Thomas Lloyd, 1788–1845
• Sir Thomas Davies Lloyd, bart., 1820–1877
• Sir Marteine Lloyd, bart., 1851–1933
• Nesta Lloyd Withington, d.1943
• Morfa Withington Winser, 1920–1958
• Joan Gregson Ellis, d. 1973
• Hyacinthe Hawkesworth, married John Hawkesworth in 1943, d. 2011^[4]

Heir presumptative: John Phillip Cemaes Hawkesworth, 1947–2006
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• Alexander Hawkesworth, b 1984

• Cokayne, George Edward (1887). "Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant (A to Bo)". The Complete Peerage. London: George Bell & Sons. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1910). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. Vol. I. London: St Catherine Press. pp. 341–2.
• Lloyd, Thomas Davies (2024). Lords of Cemais Baronia de Kemeys.