Motto: Aliter Cogita ("Think Differently")
Lord in the Baronage of Scotland
1st Class Pledged hereditary title
remainder to bloodline heirs only
THE 18th LORD (BARON OF) PITTENWEEM (Claes Michel Simonsen Zangenberg) [The Much Hon. Lord Pitteenweem, London and Carlton Club] addressed as LORD PITTENWEEM or MY LORD born in Copenhagen, Denmark 3 May 1976, educated at University of Oslo.
Wife
Yasar Jawda Lady Pittenweem married 1 March 2010, and had two children.
Heir
Olivia Zangenberg The Maid of Pittenweem born at Sliema, Malta 21 September 2011.
Motto: Aliter Cogita ("Think Differently")
Lord in the Baronage of Scotland
1st Class Pledged hereditary title
remainder to bloodline heirs only
Lineage of the House of Zangenberg
- The Zangenbergs of Denmark, descendants of Johann Christian Zangenberg, Officer in the von Linsingen Regiment, born 1760, married to Dorothea Friederike Christiane Huhne, from whom
- Johann Heinrich Georg Ludwig Zangenberg, Music Director of Osnabrück, later Aalborg, born 1796, married to Louise Margrethe Simonsen, from whom
- Anders Christian Herman Zangenberg, born 1828, married to Christiane Petra Schou, from whom
- Christian Laurits Zangenberg, born 1855, married Caroline Mangor, from whom
- Aage Vilhelm Zangenberg, born 1880, married Ane JENSEN, daughter of Jens Høj Jensen, Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, from whom
- Erik Zangenberg, born 1907, married Betty Elna Sophie NIELSEN, a cousin of Royal Konfessionarius Bishop Nikolai Edinger Balle, from whom
- Niels Christian Zangenberg, born 1949, married RITA SIMONSEN (see Lineage of Simonsen), from whom
- PRESENT LORD, see above
Lineage of Simonsen
- Haakon IV Haakonsson, 1204-1263, King of Norway, through his daughter Cecilia, her great-grandson Baron Ivar Ogmundsson Rova, and the Vraalstads of Telemark to Torbjørn Jørgensen Vraalstad, born 1584, married to Liv Anundsdatter, from whom
- Kari Torbjørnsdatter, born 1620, married to Per Tykeson of Finneid, from whom
- -Tyke Persson Finneid, born 1649, see below
- -Karen Persdatter Finneid, born 1659, 6th great grandmother of HM Queen Sonja of Norway
- Tyke Persson Finneid, married to Else Tolfsdatter, from whom
- Claus Tykeson, born 1676, married Berthe Nilsdatter, from whom
- Christen Clausson, born 1700, married Maria Jakobsdatter, from whom
- Berthe Christensdatter, born 1740, married Simon Nielsen Feset, from whom
- Arnold Simonsen, born 1778, married Anne Maria Larsdatter of Rorholt, from whom
- Lars Arnoldsen, born 1818, married Helge Maria Erichsdatter of Valle, from whom
- Simon Larsen, born 1873, married Anne Berthea Eilertsdatter of Feset, from whom
- Eilert Simonsen, born 1913, married Ingrid Groenvik, from whom
- Rita Simonsen, born 1946, married Niels Christian Zangenberg, from whom
- PRESENT LORD, see above
Lordship of Pittenweem (1609)
It was created by James VI as a barony in 1609 for Frederick Stewart, son of William Stewart, Commendator of Pittenweem. Fredrick Stewart assigned the title and lands of the Lordship and Barony to Thomas Erskine, Viscount Fenton, later 1st Earl of Kellie, in 1614. Between 1631 and 1672 the Lordship and Barony was held by the Crown. It was held "in place of the late lords" so that when the Barony and Lordship later passed to the 3rd Earl of Kellie it was not as a new creation but by an assignation of the Lordship and Barony.
The title was used as a courtesy title for the eldest son of the Earls of Kellie until it was conveyed to Sir John Anstruther by Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie and 6th Lord of Pittenweem. Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 7th Baronet, 12th Baron of Pittenweem, succeeded in breaking the entail of his Anstruther estates, and sold them, together with the Lordship and Barony of Pittenweem to William Baird of Elie, who became the 13th Lord of Pittenweem in 1856.
The Lordship passed to Lady Lavinia Enid Muriel Baird in 1961 and was conveyed to the lawyer and Writer to The Signet William Ronald Crawford Miller in 1978. After the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, the Lordship and Barony of Pittenweem became an incorporeal heritable property, no longer attached to the land.
William Ronald Crawford Miller, 17th Baron of Pittenweem, died in 2011. The Lord Lyon recognised Claes Zangenberg as the 18th Lord of Pittenweem in Letters Patent dated 27 June 2017.
Lords
- 1st lord, Frederick Stewart (1605–1614)
- 2nd lord, Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie (1614–1631)
- 3rd lord, Alexander Erskine, 3rd Earl of Kellie (1672–1677)
- 4th lord, Alexander Erskine, 4th Earl of Kellie (1677–1710)
- 5th lord, Alexander Erskine, 5th Earl of Kellie (1710–1756)
- 6th lord, Thomas Alexander Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie (1756–1766)
- 7th lord, Sir John Anstruther, 2nd Baronet (1766–1799)
- 8th lord, Sir Philip Anstruther-Paterson, 3rd Baronet (1799–1808)
- 9th lord, Sir John Anstruther, 1st Baronet of Fort William (1808–1811)
- 10th lord, Sir John Carmichael-Anstruther, 2nd and 5th Baronet (1811–1818)
- 11th lord, Sir John Carmichael-Anstruther, 3rd and 6th Baronet (1818–1831)
- 12th lord, Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther, 7th Baronet (1831–1853)
- 13th lord, William Baird of Elie (1853–1864)
- 14th lord, William Baird (1864–1918)
- 15th lord, William James Baird (1918–1961)
- 16th baroness, Lavinia Enid Muriel Baird (1961–1978)
- 17th lord, William Ronald Crawford Miller, WS (1978–2011)
- 18th PRESENT LORD (see above)