Catalogue description STRETTON (RUTLAND)

The manor was granted to Stephen de Segrave by William de Forz, count of Aumale. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 27d.] Peter de Segrave, possibly a younger son of Gilbert (II), held £6 10s. of land here c. 1265; he was alive in Jan. 1292 [CIM i. 856; CCR 1288-96, 252.] but had evidently died by Nov. 1295, by which date his brother Nicholas had granted the manor to his younger son Nicholas: below, BCM/D/5/73/1 [GC 963]. Nicholas the younger was granted additional lands here, with the manor of Holywell (Lincs.), by the king for life in 1308. [CPR 1307-13, 76.] Stretton passed to his daughter Maud and on her death in 1335 to John Lord Segrave. [VCH Rutland, ii. 148.] Thomas de Mowbray, duke of Norfolk (d. 1399), granted the lands to Henry earl of Derby who, as Henry IV, granted them as dower to Mowbray's widow. They reverted to the Crown in 1481. [VCH Rutland, ii, 148]