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6 unusual facts about Lord of the manor


Chenies

There were two villages here, called Isenhampstead Chenies and Isenhampstead Latimers, distinguished by the lords of the manors of those two places.

Epperstone

In 1853 Thomas Holdsworth was principal owner and Lord of the manor, and Thomas Moore, John Towle, John Litchfield, John Thomas, William Barnard, Edward Harding and Henry Sherbrooke Esquires also held estates.

False titles of nobility

The title Lord of the manor is a feudal title of ownership and is legally capable of sale.

Lillingstone Lovell

The adoption of the "Lovell" name came later probably in reference to the lordship of the manor by the Lovell family line which died out in the early 14th century.

Newton Blossomville

Called 'Niwetone' when first named independently in 1175, it gained the affix 'Blossevill', referring to the family name of the lords of the manor in the 13th century (a common thing to happen to settlement names at that time).

Wellow, Nottinghamshire

An historian has claimed Robin Hood was a pseudonym by which the ancient Lords of Wellow were once known.


Anthony Duncombe

Duncombe was the son of Alexander Duncombe, of Drayton, Buckinghamshire, by Mary Paulye, daughter of Richard Paulye, Lord of the Manor of Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire.

Baron Morley

On 29 December 1295 William de Morley, lord of the manor of Morley Saint Botolph in Norfolk, was summoned to parliament and was thereby deemed to have become Baron Morley.

Bradfield House

Risdon, writing in about 1630, states that the first occupier of Bradfell was Robert de Bradfell, but by the reign of King Henry III (1216-1272) Richard Walrond was lord of the manor.

Branston, Leicestershire

In 1066 Leofnoth of Branston was Lord of the Manor; after 1086 this transferred to Ralph of Kimcote, with the Bishop of Lincoln becoming Tenant-in-chief.

Brinkhill

The Lord of the Manor was Earl Hugh of Chester.

Chelveston

The last lords of the manor of Chelveston were the Disbrowe family, and the last lord, Lt. Col. Henry Edward Disbrowe Disbrowe-Wise CBE, who had inherited the title from his mother, sold off the last of the family's estate properties in Chelveston at auction in July 1919.

Chetham's Library

The manor house of the Lord of the Manor, in the centre of the medieval town of Manchester, stood on a sandstone bluff, at the confluence of the River Irwell and the River Irk.

Church of All Saints, Bingley

The first records of the church indicate it was rebuilt some time after 1066 by the Lord of the Manor, William Paganel, who gave it, with other possessions of his, to Drax Priory in the time of Archbishop Thurstan (1119–1140).

Church of St Michael, Tilehurst

Dutch merchant and lord of the manor, Sir Peter Vanlore, lies with wife in heraldic splendour, accompanied by nine children.

Crediton Parish Church

Sully was lord of the manor of Iddesleigh, but was said by Westcote to have had his seat at "Rookesford", i.e. Ruxford, in the parish of Sandford about 1/2 mile north-west of Crediton.

Croxden Abbey

In 1179, Bertram de Verdun, the lord of the manor of Croxden, endowed a site for a new abbey, and 12 monks arrived from the Savigniac Cistercian mother house of Aunay-sur-Odon in Normandy to build the new abbey over the next 50 years.

De Stafford School

The school has its origins in this institution and derives its name from a wealthy and politically influential Middle Age lord of the manor and noble who owned one of the manors of the former village in 1372, Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, whose wealthy wife Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley owned as co-heir a large set of estates before their marriage including this land.

Earnley

The mediæval lords of the manor here belonged to the Ernle, Ernley, or Erneley family, and derived their surname from a manor they held in this parish, which they were granted in 1166 by their kinsfolk in the de Lancinges family.

Gilbert of Sempringham

Gilbert was born at Sempringham, near Bourne in Lincolnshire, the son of Jocelin, an Anglo-Norman lord of the manor, who unusually for that period, actively prevented his son from becoming a knight, instead sending him to the University of Paris to study theology.

Leamington Hastings

The name of the village is due to it being just south of the River Leam, and the 'Hastings' part is due to the 'Hastang' family, the medieval lords of the manor.

Longley, South Yorkshire

From the start of the 15th century the sparse population of Longley rented their land from the Earl of Shrewsbury who was Lord of the Manor.

Municipal Borough of Finchley

The dexter supporter was a lion, from the arms of the Countess of Pembroke, from whom the Comptons, lord of the manor were descended.

Newton St Cyres

It contains the splendid monument with standing effigy of John Northcote (1570-1632) of Hayne, lord of the manor of Newton St Cyres.

Orchard Portman

The village takes the second part of its name from the Portman family one of the earliest prominent members of which was Sir William Portman (died 1557), Chief Justice of the King’s Bench and lord of the manor.

Paston-Bedingfeld baronets

His descendant, Edmund Bedingfeld, married Margaret (died 1446), daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Tuddenham (and sister and co-heir of her brother Sir Thomas Tuddenham, executed in 1462), bringing to her husband estates including the manor of Oxburgh, near Swaffham, Norfolk.

Queen's Champion

The current and 34th Queen's Champion and 33rd Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby, 7th Lord of the Manor of Telford, and of the Manor of Scrivelsby, Thornton and Dalderby, patron of the living of Scrivelsby-cum-Dalderby, and Queen's Champion is Lieutenant-Colonel John Lindley Marmion Dymoke, MBE DL Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.

Ralph Staveley

Sir Ralph Staley or Ralph de Stavelegh was lord of the Manor of Staley Hall, Stalybridge, England.

Richard de Whitacre

Sir Richard de Whitacre (circa 1300-1375) was the Lord of the Manors of Nether Whitacre, Over Whitacre, Elmdon, and Freasley.

Richard Gardiner

He married Etheldreda (or Audria) (d.1505), daughter of William Cotton, Lord of the Manor of Landwade, in Cambridgeshire, who survived him and married, secondly, Sir Gilbert Talbot, Knight of the Garter, of Grafton, Worcestershire).

Sockburn

As Sockburn was the most southerly point in the Durham diocese, the sword was ceremonially presented by the Lord of the Manor to each new Bishop of Durham when he entered his diocese for the first time at the local ford or the nearby Croft-on-Tees bridge.

Welby, Lincolnshire

Lord of the Manor and owner of parish land was Sir William Earle Welby-Gregory DL, JP, of Denton Hall.

Wellow, Nottinghamshire

Jordan Foliot, Baron de Foliot, Lord of Jordon Castle was granted the power to embattle his dwelling at Jordon Castle, he was the Lord of the Manor of Grimston, and Wellow, and of Besthorpe, with the Soc of Grimston, and its members, in Kirton Schidrintune, in Willoughby, and Walesby, in Besthorpe, and Carleton, and in Franesfeild.

Whitaker Wright

In 1890 Wright had purchased an estate named Lea Park between Godalming and Haslemere, Surrey, and the adjacent South Park Farm from the Earl of Derby, which included the Lordship of the Manor and control of Hindhead Common and the Devil's Punch Bowl.

William Irby, 1st Baron Boston

In 1761 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Boston, of Boston in the County of Lincoln, and became Lord of the Manor of Hedsor in 1764.


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Bale Oak

The Lord of the Manor Sir Willoughby Jones ordered the tree removed and, with much local mourning, the remains taken carted to Cranmer Hall at Fakenham.

Bessingham

The current Bessingham Manor House was built in 1870 for the lord of the manor, Daniel Spurrell, It stood empty and derelict for many years and was eventually scheduled for demolition.

Bodney

In the 14th century Edmund Oldhall (died 1417), father of Sir William Oldhall, a statesman, was Lord of the Manor, and it passed to William, who sold it to the Priory of Thetford.

Bolton upon Dearne

In the early 18th century Barnsley attorney William Henry Marsden Esquire of nearby Burntwood Hall bought the Lord of the Manor of Bolton on Dearne with Goldthorpe for £10,000 together with over 1,000 acres (4 km²) of land.

Caleb Fleming

His father was a hosier; his mother, whose maiden name was Buxton, was a daughter of the lord of the manor of Chelmerton, Derbyshire.

Crediton Parish Church

Memorial to General Sir Redvers Buller VC (1839-1908), of Downes House, lord of the manor of Crediton, west side of tower arch.

Daniel Patterson

Daniel Patterson's mother, Catherine Livingston, was a daughter of the "Third Lord of the Manor" of Livingston, Robert Livingston (1708–1790) (also see Livingston family).

Ebbesbourne Wake

Geoffrey de Wak became Lord of the manor in 1204, but although his relationship to Hereward the Wake is unknown, the shield of Hereward's coat of arms can today be seen on the church tower.

Elizabeth Bland

She was married on 26 April 1681 at St. Mary-le-Savoy to Mr. Nathaniel Bland, then a merchant of London and freeman of the Glovers' Company, but who in 1692 succeeded his father, Richard Bland, as lord of the manor of Beeston, near Leeds, Yorkshire, where he thenceforward resided.

Escrick

The church of St Helen has stood in its present position since 1783 when Beilby Thompson, then Lord of the Manor, replaced the 13th century church that was once situated to the west of Escrick Hall.

Georg Feigl

His wife Maria was distantly related to the lord of the manor of Wechselburg castle and prepared the castle to receive the mathematicians.

Great and Little Kimble

Her successors sold it in 1803 to Scrope Bernard (later Sir Scrope Bernard-Morland, a Baronet), who had been lord of the manor of Little Kimble since 1792, He held both manors until his death in 1830 and they were then sold to Robert Greenhill Russell (created a Baronet in 1831).

Henry de Beaumont, 5th Earl of Warwick

He had a brief marriage to Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of Henry D'Oyly, Baron Hocknorton and Lord of the Manor of Lidney; the latter was a great-nephew of Robert D'Oyly, the builder of Oxford Castle.

Horning

The Bishop of Norwich, as Abbot of St. Benets, is still Lord of the Manor.

Hunsdon

Sir William Oldhall, the Lord of the Manor at the time, is known to have been a zealous Yorkist.

Jackson of Exeter

Jackson composed the operas The Lord of the Manor (1780, libretto by John Burgoyne) and Metamorphoses (1783), as well as several odes (Warton's Ode to Fancy, Pope's The Dying Christian to His Soul, and Lycidas) and a large number of songs, canzonets, madrigals, pastorals, hymns, anthems, sonatas for harpsichord, and church services.

Knowsley Hall Music Festival

It was created by the CEO of Cream and Creamfields, James Barton, and Lord Edward Stanley the Lord of the Manor for Knowsley Hall.

Longleat Priory

In 1393 it was granted control of the church at Lullington, Somerset, and in 1407 Sir Walter Hungerford (later 1st Baron Hungerford) donated the advowson of the church in Rushall, Wiltshire, of which he was lord of the manor.

Luttrell Psalter

The Luttrell Psalter was created in England sometime between 1320 and 1345 at the request of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell, Lord of the Manor of Irnham in Lincolnshire.

Nicholas Arnold

He was born at Churcham in Gloucestershire, the eldest surviving son of John Arnold, Lord of the Manor of Highnam and Over, and his wife Isabel Hawkins.

Oakham Castle

It was constructed between 1180 and 1190, in the reign of Henry II for Walchelin de Ferriers, Lord of the Manor of Oakham.

Pury End

In Elizabethan times, the village of Paulerspury was important because the Lord of the Manor, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, was a principal advisor to Queen Elizabeth.

Ringinglow

A report dating from 1574 detailed a tour by George Talbot, the 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, then lord of the manor of Sheffield, of the boundaries of the manor, in which they visited 'a great heape of stones called Ringinglawe' that was used as one of the boundary markers.

Rothwell, Northamptonshire

Tresham gifted the Market House to the town, of which he was Lord of the Manor, but although work started in 1577 it would be 300 years before it was finished by local architect J A Gotch.

Sillé-le-Guillaume

In the fifteenth century the lord of the manor was Sir John Fastolf of Caister in Norfolk (1380-1459), following the English conquest of Normandy and Maine.

Sir Edward Littleton, 1st Baronet

As this suggests, he was of Cavalier sympathies, and an important counterweight locally to Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke, lord of the manor of Penkridge, who was an important leader of the Puritan and Parliamentary cause, who was killed during the siege of Lichfield Cathedral in 1643.

St John the Baptist's Church, Westbourne

In 1770, the then-Lord of the Manor Earl of Halifax added a spire to the tower.

St Mary's Church, North Leigh

In 1723, John Perrott, Lord of the Manor, engaged Christopher Kempster of Burford to refit the church and build a burial chapel for the Perrott family to the north of the north aisle.

St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury

Earl Warenne, Lord of the Manor of Wakefield built a church in the Norman style in 1106.

Uckerby

It was briefly held by James Riddell and his son from 1777 to around 1872 before being bought once again by the lord of the manor of Ellerton-on-Swale.

Walcot, Lincolnshire

Lord of the manor and principal landowner was Lord Aveland PC, DL, JP.

West Hallam

Sir Francis Newdegate GCMG KStJ (1862–1936), Lord of the Manor until 1914 was Governor of Tasmania (1917–1920) and of Western Australia (1920–1924).

William Noyes

"The Church of St. Nicholas, Cheldreton, was given to the Monks of St. Neots (Huntingdonshire) about 1175 by Roger Burnard, and the grant was confirmed by Pope Alexander III. In 1380, 1399 and 1401 John Skylling, lord of the manor, was also patron of the church, probably by temporary grants from the Convent. In 1445 it was again in St. Neots' Priory, but seems to have been finally alienated to John Skylling about 1449."