Catalogue description FLECKNOE (WARWS.)

One of the Segraves' five principal Warwickshire manors, Flecknoe was evidently part of the settlement by Edmund FitzAlan, earl of Arundel, on Stephen de Segrave and Alice, possibly the earl's sister. [Cf. above, pp. 710-11.] It is mentioned in John de Segrave's inquisition post mortem of 1325 as held in jointure with his wife Christine by the earl's grant (as were Repton, Ticknall, Barrow-upon-Soar, Quorndon and Alspath), despite John's grant to Stephen and Alice in Jan. 1318 (above, BCM/D/5/1/13 [GC 2217]), while Stephen's inquisition mentions only a rent of 2s. In 1343 Flecknoe was held for life by John Lord Segrave's brother Stephen; in Oct. 1344 there was no mention of Stephen, who may have died by then: above, BCM/D/5/1/15, 18 [GC 3086, GC3101]. In July 1416 John de Mowbray granted the manors of Flecknoe, Aspley and Alspath to his sister Isabel for life, on her marriage with Henry de Ferrers; she married secondly James de Berkeley and in May 1428 they granted Flecknoe to Nicholas Stanshawe for Isabel's life. [GEC v. 357 n., 358.] Isabel died in 1452, when the manors reverted to the Mowbrays. The manor was later held in jointure by the duchess Elizabeth from 1476.