Institutional Crown holder
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Current holder (legacy manor assignment): Crown Unregistered
Institutional Crown holder
Associated title (legacy text): Crown-held manor of Portchester
Historical names: Portchester Castle area
Location: Portchester, Hampshire
Places / associated places: Portchester, Hampshire
About the Manor
Portchester is recorded as a Crown-held manor in historical references; current ownership is The Crown / Crown Estate.
Ownership / Holder Account
The Crown / Crown Estate Current owner of the Crown-held manor of Portchester.
Manorial Rights & Privileges
Current manorial rights / privileges (1)
Crown ownership/right to Portchester manor
Unverified
Evidence of current Crown ownership of Portchester manor
Conveyance & Descent
First holder to present holder: blood proximity & distance travelled
First recorded holder: The Crown / Crown Estate
Present holder:
Recorded title journey: 1 holder entry in this manor's saved Conveyance & Descent history.
No recorded holder currently has a usable saved direct-blood or collateral-blood relationship path from which to calculate proximity percentages.
First recorded holder → present holder
A usable saved blood relationship path between the first recorded holder and the present holder has not yet been recorded, so that first-to-present genealogical distance cannot be calculated.
The Crown / Crown Estate
Holding arrangement: Other
Crown manor of Portchester held at Hock and Martinmas yearly; Crown associated manor documented on Sheldon Manors site (Lords of the Manor: Portchester)
Source: The Crown / Crown Estate — source link
Lordship / Title Associations
Associations are recorded by period so changes in estate composition do not imply that every manor remained attached to the same title indefinitely.
Associated · Unverified
Record history (latest 2)
- Updated unregistered holder arms profile.
30 Aug 2026, 18:32 UTC · William James Dalrymple Bedding Fanshawe West Esq., Lord of Watlington-West, Norfolk - Updated unregistered holder about, unregistered holder wikipedia, unregistered holder website, unregistered holder geni url, unregistered holder facebook, unregistered holder instagram, unregistered holder linkedin and 12 other field(s).
30 Aug 2026, 18:30 UTC · William James Dalrymple Bedding Fanshawe West Esq., Lord of Watlington-West, Norfolk
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