Catalogue description DISEWORTH (LEICS.)

One of the Segraves' five principal manors in Leicestershire, Diseworth is mentioned in the inquisitions post mortem of 1295 and 1325 but not in later inquisitions, and the grant by John de Segrave to feoffees in Nov. 1343 (shortly before the great jointure settlement) suggests that it was set aside for some other purpose. Possibly it was for the marriage settlement for his children, as a rent of 66s. 8d. from the manor was settled on John the younger and his wife Elizabeth Mowbray in 1349 and John de Mowbray was holding part at least of the manor in 1359: above, BCM/D/1/1/14 [GC 3232]; below, BCM/D/5/23/3 [GC 3491]. By 1435 it was in the hands of the duchess Katherine (above, BCM/D/1/1/39 [GC 4184]), and before 1461 it was subject, along with Melton Mowbray (Leics.) and Kineton (Warws.), to some other settlement by John (VI). [Below, BCM/D/5/23/4 [SC 621]. pardon to Henry Bradfield. The settlement may have been part of the jointure for John (VI)'s duchess Eleanor. Bradfield was used as a feoffee by John (VI) and John (VII): above, BCM/D/1/1/20 [GC 4343]; BCM/D/5/11/1[SC 613].] By 1325 rents from Hathern, Kegworth, Walton and Whatton were paid at Diseworth.