Catalogue description ALSPATH, IN MERIDEN (WARWS.)

Lands there were granted to Stephen (I) de Segrave, whose son Gilbert held the 'town' at his death in 1254. Additional lands were among those granted by Edmund earl of Arundel (as all his lands [etc.] in Alspath, with its members) to John and Christine de Segrave c. 1314, probably in connection with the marriage of Arundel's sister Alice to John's son Stephen. Alspath is mentioned in both inquisitions of 1325 and was included in the jointure settlement of 1343-4, appearing thereafter in the inquisitions of 1353 and 1399. It was among the manors settled by John de Mowbray on his sister Isabel on her marriage to Henry de Ferrers in 1416, and was then held by her second husband James de Berkeley until her death in 1452: below, p. 810, Flecknoe. It occurs as two manors, Alspath and Meriden, in William de Berkeley's grant to Richard III in 1484.