Catalogue description TWYFORD (BUCKS.)

This record is held by Berkeley Castle Muniments

Details of BCM/H/1/1
Reference: BCM/H/1/1
Title: TWYFORD (BUCKS.)
Held by: Berkeley Castle Muniments, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Administrative / biographical background:

The manor was granted in 1246 to Ralph FitzNicholas (d. c. 1257), steward of the household, whose son and heir Robert FitzNicholas subinfeudated the greater part of it to John Giffard in 1269: below, BCM/H/1/1/2 [SC 425]. The remnant passed from Robert (d.s.p. 1273) to his nephew and heir Ralph Lord Pipard (d. 1303), son of his younger brother Ralph (d. 1263-5), who had married the Irish heir Alice Pipard. Ralph Pipard's son and eventual heir John, who succeeded to the inheritance in 1309 and married Maud, daughter of Theobald Butler, sold the manor, along with the reversion of the rest of his English inheritance, to his brother-in-law Edmund Butler. In 1452 James Butler, earl of Ormond, sold the manor to Thomas Giffard, who held the other portion. Charndon (Charend) is a hamlet in Twyford.[VCH Bucks. iv. 255-6].

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