Catalogue description BARTON SEAGRAVE (NORTHANTS.)

The manor, alias Barton-by-Kettering and Barton Hanred, was acquired by Stephen (I) de Segrave from Simon de Hale who, with Harold de Bucton, had been granted half a fee in Barton by Richard le Hanred [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 26.] The Segrave Cartulary records that Nicholas de Segrave made an agreement with Hugh de Plescy concerning the manor, with rents in Northampton and 'Conches Mill', which had all been held by Stephen de Segrave and were all later granted to Nicholas's younger son Nicholas, but does not give the details of the agreement. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 26.] Something may be deduced from the fact that in 1274-5 John de Plescy was holding 'Congesmylnes' from Nicholas de Segrave; John was the elder son and heir apparent of Hugh de Plescy and was married in 1270 to Nicholas de Segrave's daughter Amabel at the same time as Nicholas's son and heir John married Hugh's daughter Christine. It is possible, therefore, that this group of Northamptonshire lands were part, if not all, of Amabel's marriage portion; John de Plescy, who in 1275 had livery of lands inherited from his mother, coheir of the Bisets, died without issue in 1279 and the lands would have reverted to Amabel's father either in 1279 or on Amabel's death if she survived John. The (undated) grant of Barton Hanred was to the younger Nicholas and his issue, with remainder to the elder Nicholas's right heirs. [BL Harl. MS 4748, f. 26.] The younger Nicholas's daughter Maud, married to Edmund de Bohun at Nicholas's death in 1321, died without issue in 1335 and the heir to Barton Seagrave was her cousin John Lord Segrave (d. 1353). [At his death the younger Nicholas held, besides the manor and the site of the castle, lands of Roger de Insula and his wife Amicia, for Amicia's life, at a rent of £4 9s. a year; he also held the manor of Weston (Northants.), which seems not to have passed to later Segraves: CIPM vi, no. 322.] Barton was included in the settlement of 1343-4 with the wood of Boughton and in 1353 was held in jointure by Margaret Marshal. She evidently surrendered it to her grandson, as it does not appear in her inquisition post mortem, and Thomas de Mowbray granted it to feoffees in 1397. It does not occur in the muniments in the 15th century.