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The Crown in right of the Duchy of Lancaster, Royal Duchy estate
Dates: Duchy connection documented from the fourteenth century; 1509 rent roll survives
Institutional royal holding of Aldbourne documented through the Duchy of Lancaster's administrative records.
View historical person →The Crown of England, Crown proprietor
Dates: 1399-1632
The Crown held Ingoldmells from its absorption into the royal inheritance in 1399 until the sale under Charles I in 1632.
View historical person →The Earl of Pembroke, individual not securely identified
The available source identifies the holder only by the title Earl of Pembroke and does not securely identify the individual recipient of the post-Dissolution grant.
View historical person →The executors of Sir John Dackombe, Executors and testamentary trustees under Sir John Dackombe's will
Dates: Active after Dackombe's death in January 1618
The named executors were responsible for administering Dackombe's estate and holding the specified manors under the terms of his will.
View historical person →The Honourable The Hon. E. R. H. Wills
The Hon. E. R. H. Wills purchased the approximately 620-acre Aldsworth estate from Christ Church in 1970.
View historical person →The king, King of England
Dates: 1086
The Domesday Survey records Adgestone as being in the king's hands in 1086.
View historical person →The king or Crown, King of England, lord paramount of the royal holding
Dates: Royal lordship documented in 1086; later duration uncertain
The Crown was the superior lord associated with the Bletchingdon holding known as Adderbury's Manor in the Domesday and early medieval evidence.
View historical person →The Lovels of Aldeby, Reported holders of the Aldeby lordship
Dates: dates not established
The Lovel family is identified by Blomefield as a later holder of the Aldeby lordship after the Marshalls.
View historical person →The Marshalls of Aldeby, Reported holders of the Aldeby lordship
Dates: dates not established
The Marshall family is identified by Blomefield as a later holder of the Aldeby lordship after the Rosceline interest.
View historical person →The Master and Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge, Lords of the manor of Abbotsley by 1898
Dates: Institutional body; college founded 1448
The governing corporate body of Queens' College, Cambridge, which held the Abbotsley estate and was described in late nineteenth-century directories as lord of the manor.
View historical person →The Mortimer lords of Wigmore, later earls of March in the senior Mortimer line
Dates: From the eleventh century until 1425 in the principal Wigmore estate descent
The Mortimers were a major marcher dynasty whose principal Herefordshire seat was Wigmore Castle and whose lordship included extensive estates around Wigmore and Leintwardine.
View historical person →The President and Governors of Guy's Hospital, Corporate governors and proprietors of Guy's Hospital, London
Dates: Corporate body; acquisition of Aconbury estate in 1731
The Governors of Guy's Hospital administered the hospital's endowed estates and acquired the former Chandos property at Aconbury in 1731. They were described in nineteenth-century sources as lords…
View historical person →The prior and convent of Norwich, Prior and convent of the Cathedral Priory of Norwich
Dates: Priory established before the grant; held Aldeby until the 1286 conveyance
The Benedictine cathedral priory of Norwich established a cell at Aldeby and administered its lands and revenues through a prior.
View historical person →The Priory of St Osyth, Augustinian priory
Dates: founded as an Augustinian house about 1120; surrendered July 1539
An Augustinian priory in Essex that held extensive estates in Suffolk and Essex, including the separate Denham Abbots estate until the Dissolution.
View historical person →The Pyrie or Perry family
A Kent family associated by Hasted with the residence at Aldons Manor, from which the historical name Perry Court was derived.
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