Catalogue description DINNINGTON (YORKS.)

A collection of holdings in the very southern tip of Yorkshire near Sheffield eventually coalesced as the 'manors' of Dinnington and Thwaite. Stephen de Segrave was granted lands in Dinnington, Anston and Kiveton by William Earl Warenne, and in Dinnington and 'Forda' by Alice countess of Eu, both grants being confirmed by Henry III in 1233. Alice had earlier granted to Stephen the mill at Turnerwood (below, BCM/D/5/97/1 [SC 87]), but later exchanged it for the mill at Forda [Stephen had the homage and service of the tenants of 8 bovates in Kiveton and 18 bovates in Dinnington, and of 1 bovate in Dinnington and Anston from Warenne, and all the homage and service granted by Alice of Eu in Dinnington and her mill of Forda: BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 21d.] Stephen's widow Ida had in dower lands worth £18 0s. 9d. in Dinnington, 'la Ford' and Anston, which at her death in 1289 passed to Nicholas de Segrave the younger. [On Ida's death in 1289 Nicholas and his brothers paid a fine under the Dictum of Kenilworth for lands including Dinnington, which probably passed to Nicholas then: BCM/D/5 Administrative History] At his death in 1321 Nicholas was holding 24½ bovates in Dinnington, 2 bovates in Firbeck and 'Odesthorp', [Possibly Hodthorpe, just over the border in Derbyshire.] 12 bovates in Kiveton, Dinnington and Bramley, a rent of 6s. 4d. in Stone, 7 bovates in Thwaite by Dinnington, and 27¼ bovates and other holdings in Tickhill, 'Wallendwell', Woodsetts, Gildingwells, Letwell, Bagley and Woolthwaite. In 1297 he had had licence to enter £10 worth of land at Tickhill granted to him by Humphrey de Bohun, earl of Hereford, until Humphrey paid him £100. [CCR 1296-1302, 69.] By 1343 those lands had returned to the main line, and Dinnington was included in the jointure settlement for Margaret Marshal in 1343-4. John de Segrave in 1352 leased Dinnington (including holdings in Anston, Kiveton and Bramley), as implied in the charter below (BCM/D/5/96/1 [GC 3387]), and at his death the following year it was that holding that was held in jointure, but he also had rents of £14 10s. ('and no more on account of the late mortality') in Tickhill, Wapley, Firbeck, Odesthorp, Letwell, Langold, [Langold was just over the border in Nottinghamshire.] Thwaite, Gildingwells, Wallandwell, Woodsetts, Dinnington and Stone. The rents presumably represented the later manor of Thwaite, which was also held by Margaret Marshal on her death in 1399, presumably in dower. It was not held by the duchess Katherine with the Mowbray manors in Yorkshire but was included by William de Berkeley in his grant to Richard III in 1484.