Catalogue description STOTTESDON (SALOP.)

This record is held by Berkeley Castle Muniments

Details of BCM/D/5/74
Reference: BCM/D/5/74
Title: STOTTESDON (SALOP.)
Held by: Berkeley Castle Muniments, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

The manor came to the Segrave family with Christine, daughter of Hugh de Plescy, who married John Lord Segrave (d. 1325). It had been granted to John de Plescy by Henry III in 1241 and was granted in free marriage with Christine to John, son and heir of Nicholas de Segrave, in Jan. 1270. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 19. John de Plescy (d. 1263) married secondly Margaret de Newburgh, sister and heir of the earl of Warwick, and held the earldom until his death even though she died without issue in 1253; Hugh was John's son by his first marriage. Nicholas de Segrave's sister Alice married William Mauduit, Margaret's cousin and heir, who was earl of Warwick from Plescy's death in 1263 until his own in 1268.] Associated with the manor were holdings in neighbouring Chorley, Farlow, Harcourt and Kingswood: [Chorley, Farlow and Harcourt lie within 3 miles of Stottesdon, as presumably did Kingswood.] those at Chorley and Farlow are not recorded as separate manors; Harcourt was described as a separate manor only in 1343; Kingswood was named separately then and at several other times. Stottesdon, Kingswood and Harcourt were granted to feoffees in Dec. 1343, and Kingswood alone was regranted to John and Margaret Marshal in Sept. 1344. By 1399 Margaret Marshal held both Stottesdon and Kingswood, and the distinction may have been made between them on account of John de Segrave's lease of the arable at Kingswood in 1337: below, BCM/D/5/74/20 [GC 2887]. As with, above, Fenstanton (Hunts.), one twentieth was reserved from the 1343 grant, and one twentieth of Stottesdon and Kingswood was settled on John (VII) de Mowbray and his wife Elizabeth in 1467. William de Berkeley granted the reversion of the manor to Humphrey Coningsby, his wife Isabel and their male issue by a final concord of June 1488, along with North Piddle (Worcs.). [CIPM Hen. VII, i, nos. 826, 828.]

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