Goldingham

The Armiger is a Canadian Barrister, Officer of HM’s Courts and Member of the Commonwealth in England Barristers Association (CEBA). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, as well as a member of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society (founded 1701). The Armiger is a member of l’Association des Vieux Noms Français Subsistants (AVNF) and the former dean of the Society of the Descendants of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (founded 1956). He is a member of the OESSJ and a Companion of SMOM, as well as a recipient of the Pilgrim’s Shell of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and of the Holy Land Pilgrim’s Cross (a Pontifical Honour). The Armiger has been inducted into the House of France’s dynastic ‘Ordre de l’étoile’ (founded 1022, revived by Prince Henri d’Orléans 2013). He resides in Sholden, Kent, with his wife and two sons, being the current Lord of a manorial estate first cited in Domesday.

The Manor of Goldingham (also known as Goldingham Hall) is located in the parish of Bulmer, Essex, near the Romano-British site at Gestingthorpe. It is a historically rich estate dating back to before the Norman Conquest and associated with the prominent Anglo-Norman Goldingham family.

In 1066, before the Norman Conquest, the Saxon manor was held by a freeman named Godwin and valued at 60 shillings. Around the turn of the 11th century, Norman baron Robert Malet granted the estate to a knight named Sir Hugh who adopted the local name as his surname, establishing the Goldingham family lineage. The family retained the manor and expanded their estates, with Sir William de Goldingham (born 1236) holding significant lands in Essex. William de Goldingham's Effigy is in a Chantry Chapel in All Saint's Church, Rushton, Northamptonshire. By 1315, the manor was owned by John de Goldingham, who held it partly of the honour of Eye and partly of the Earl of Norfolk. In 1400, Richard de Goldingham sold the manor to the Appleyard family.

When the manor came to the market in 2025, the family of the armiger were pleased to aquire it to return ownership to the Goldingham family after over 600 years. The present Lady of the Manor is Sara Goldingham, widow of the late Amis Stewart Goldingham.

Source assertion: Sara Goldingham — Lady of the Manor of Goldingham. Imported as an unregistered named current holder; identity is claimable subject to administrator approval.

When the manor came to the market in 2025, the family of the armiger were pleased to aquire it to return ownership to the Goldingham family after over 600 years. The present Lady of the Manor is Sara Goldingham, widow of the late Amis Stewart Goldingham.