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Tancred Robinson, Physician-in-ordinary to King George I, knighted by George I
Dates: c.1685-1758
Tancred Robinson was an English physician who served as Physician-in-ordinary to King George I and was knighted by him. He temporarily held Aldfield among the Robinson family manors.
View historical person →Tarrant Abbey, Cistercian nunnery
Dates: medieval institution; dissolved 1539
A Cistercian nunnery in Dorset. The abbess was recorded in 1273 as holding the manor of Bere, with its fair, market, free warren and forest, until the abbey's…
View historical person →Tezelin, the king's cook, holder of an Addington estate by royal serjeanty
Dates: Active at the time of the Domesday Survey, 1086
Tezelin is identified in the Domesday account as the king's cook and tenant of an estate at Edintone/Addington. His holding is associated in later records with the service…
View historical person →The Arscott family, Arscott family of Devon, individual title not established for Affaland Manor
Dates: medieval or early modern family; individual dates not established for this manor holding
A Devon landed family explicitly reported by early nineteenth-century antiquarian and later directory sources as the former holders of Affaland Manor.
View historical person →The Brudenell-Bruce family, Earls of Ailesbury and Earls of Elgin in the wider family history
Dates: Seventeenth to nineteenth centuries in the Jervaulx estate descent; family ownership ended with the 1882 sale decision
The Brudenell-Bruce family inherited and administered the Jervaulx estate for several generations before deciding to sell it in 1882 because of financial difficulties.
View historical person →The Calthorpe family, Calthorpe family of Norfolk and Suffolk
Dates: held Aldeby Hall Manor at least through 1742
The Calthorpes were a prominent Norfolk and Suffolk family who held Aldeby Hall Manor from the early seventeenth century and are recorded as retaining it in 1742.
View historical person →The Church of England, for the Archbishops of Canterbury, Ecclesiastical owner, residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury
Dates: 1807-1898 for the documented house and land holding
The Church of England acquired the Addington property for the Archbishops of Canterbury after the sale of the Trecothick and Coles interests. Six archbishops used Addington Palace as…
View historical person →The Crown, Crown ownership following monastic dissolution
Dates: 1536-1540 in this conveyance
The Crown took possession of the Dore Abbey estate after the abbey's dissolution in September 1536 and retained it until the grant of the site and demesne lands…
View historical person →The Crown, royal estate
Dates: Crown ownership from 1538
The Crown received the lands of Hyde Abbey following its dissolution in 1538.
View historical person →The Crown, Crown custody following forfeiture
Dates: 1583-after 1603
The Crown held or controlled the forfeited Paget estate after the confiscation of 1583 until its restoration during the reign of James I.
View historical person →The Crown, Crown of England, Crown of the United Kingdom
Dates: 1539-present as a constitutional institution
The Crown received the possessions of dissolved religious houses during the English Reformation and disposed of many of them by grant or sale.
View historical person →The Crown, Crown of England under James I
Dates: 1603
The Crown resumed possession of the former Lennox grant in 1603 before making a new grant to Ludovic Stewart, Duke of Lennox.
View historical person →The Crown, Crown proprietor following forfeiture
Dates: 1531 onward in the immediate post-forfeiture period
The English Crown took possession of Abermarlais after the forfeiture of Rhys ap Griffith FitzUrien's estate for treason.
View historical person →The Crown
Dates: Crown lordship attested in 1892; duration before and after that date not established by the cited source.
The Crown is recorded here as the institutional lord of East Acklam Manor, not as a private individual. The source does not identify the particular sovereign or Crown…
View historical person →The Crown, Crown holder of Acomb Manor
Dates: 1547-1622 or 1623
The Crown held Acomb Manor following the surrender of the Treasurer of York Minster's interest in 1547.
View historical person →The Crown, Royal owner or custodian after forfeiture
Dates: 1468 onward for an uncertain period
The Crown seized Adderley after the attainder of Thomas, Lord Roos, in 1468.
View historical person →The Crown, Royal lord of the Wigmore estate
Dates: Estate-level control after 1425 and before the Elizabethan grant; exact dates for Adforton not established
The Crown acquired control of the Wigmore estate after the Mortimer succession failed in 1425, before granting the property during the reign of Elizabeth I.
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