Catalogue description NORTH PIDDLE (WORCS.)

The manor was granted to Stephen (I) de Segrave by John FitzGeoffrey, a grant which was confirmed by Henry III in 1233, and the manor was held in dower by Stephen's widow Ida. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 18d.]

By May 1299, and probably by 1292, it was held by Henry, younger son of Nicholas de Segrave [On Ida's death in 1289 Henry and his brothers paid a fine under the Dictum of Kenilworth for lands including North Piddle, which probably passed to Henry then: cf. BCM/D/5 Administrative History] and in Jan. 1318 it was included in the grant by John de Segrave to his son Stephen and his wife Alice of all the lands which he had inherited after the death of his brother Henry, as by 1325 Stephen and Alice held it in jointure by John's grant. Alice was holding it in 1330 and 1334, when the rent for West Hatch was to be paid there. A feoffee quitclaimed it to John (II) de Segrave in June 1343, probably soon after Alice's death, and it was included in Margaret Marshal's jointure settlement of 1343-4. As such it occurs in the inquisitions of 1353 and 1399. It was settled again, with Bretby (Derb.), in 1448: above, BCM/D/5/9/5 [SC 598]. It passed to William de Berkeley in 1483, who in 1488 granted it to Humphrey Coningsby and his wife and Humphrey's male issue: below, BCM/D/5/94/8 [GC 4457]. [CIPM Hen. VII, i, nos. 826, 828; Stottesdon (Salop.) was also granted to Coningsby.]