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Margery de Lacy, Co-heiress of the de Lacy inheritance
Dates: Died in the thirteenth century; exact dates vary by source
A daughter and co-heiress in the de Lacy succession who inherited interests in a group of estates including Eastleach Turville.
View historical person →Margery Felbrigg
Dates: died 1476
Daughter of Sir John Felbrigg and wife of Thomas Sampson; she held Mitchells jointly with her husband and died in 1476.
View historical person →Margery Newport, Joan Barley and Alice Morewell
Dates: Recorded as heirs in 1395–96
Three sisters who inherited Walter de la Lee's Albury interests in divided shares; their marriages are recorded in the manorial descent.
View historical person →Marjery Holes, Heiress of the Holes or Hulses estates
Dates: fl. 1420s
Heiress associated with the Holes or Hulses inheritance. She received custody and livery on coming of age on 12 May 1420 and married Sir John Troutbeck on 26…
View historical person →Marmaduke Robinson, Recorded Lord of Acomb Manor
Dates: flourished from 1789 or 1790
Marmaduke Robinson is named in the Acomb court-roll summary as a private holder of the leased manorial interest from the late 1780s or 1790.
View historical person →Marmaduke Robinson and Henry Dealtry, Joint recorded Lords of Acomb Manor
Dates: flourished 1799-1818
Marmaduke Robinson and Henry Dealtry are named jointly in the Acomb court-roll summary as private holders of the leased manorial interest.
View historical person →Marquess of Worcester, reported lord of Acton Turville Manor
Dates: Title-holder in 1891; individual not specified by the source excerpt
The 1891 directory identifies the Marquess of Worcester as lord of Acton Turville Manor and chief landowner. The source excerpt does not name the individual behind the title.
View historical person →Martell
Dates: Flourished in the late eleventh century; exact dates unknown
Martell was the post-Conquest tenant recorded in the Domesday material for Alferestuna in Great Dunmow, held under Geoffrey de Mandeville.
View historical person →Martin Fortescue
Dates: floruit in the 15th century
A member of the Fortescue family who married Elizabeth Denzell in 1454 and thereby acquired the Lamerton inheritance.
View historical person →Martin Heton, Bishop of Ely, 1599–1609
Dates: c. 1545–1609
English churchman who served as Bishop of Ely and is identified in the registry as the bishop who alienated Glemsford Manor to Queen Elizabeth I in 1600.
View historical person →Mary Beckingham
Dates: fl. 16th century
Sister and heir of John Beckingham who held the manor before conveying it jointly with her husband Thomas Windsor in 1565.
View historical person →Mary Bennett and Anne Spencer, Daughters of Wolley Leigh, Mary wife of Reverend John Bennett, Anne wife of Henry Spencer
Dates: flourished 1744-1768
Mary Bennett and Anne Spencer were the two Leigh family co-heiresses to whom the estates of Sir John Leigh were awarded after the 1737 succession dispute. The Addington…
View historical person →Mary Blomer, later Mary Draycott and Mary Jebb
Dates: Died 29 March 1709, aged 74, according to the cited account
The female heir who became sole possessor of the Eastleach Turville manor and estate after the deaths of John and William Blomer without issue. She married first Richard…
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