Public Manorial Heritage Registry
Browse Manors, Current Owners/Lords & Historical People
Search approved public records without signing in. Published Lordships/Titles that are not explicitly extinguished appear under Current Owners/Lords whether or not a Person/profile has been registered yet. Manor/property records remain separate and may be currently, historically, or not associated with a title.
William de Ruly
Dates: fl. later 13th century
Member of the de Ruly family recorded as holding Ray or Le Rey under the Earls of Oxford in the feodary of the Honor of Castle Hedingham.
View historical person →William de Septem Molis
Dates: fl. 1247; later thirteenth century
A medieval landholder recorded in a 1247 fine involving land in Stanford. The Stanford-le-Hope account identifies him as the later donor of Abbotts Manor and its chapel advowson…
View historical person →William de Shepey
Dates: floruit c. 1300
Member of the Shepey family who acquired Smisby through his marriage to Joane Comyn around 1300, according to the supplied record.
View historical person →William de Soulby
Dates: fl. late 14th century
Medieval landholder of the Soulby family who held Knock Shalcock during the reign of Richard II.
View historical person →William de St John, Member of the St John family, son of Sir John de St John
Dates: died before 4 April 1329; born approximately 1309
William de St John was the son of Sir John de St John and husband of Eleanor de Arundel. A 1323 settlement placed Abbotstone on William and Eleanor.
View historical person →William de Stafford
Dates: fl. early to mid-14th century
A Stafford associated with Bedcote and the adjoining manor of Amblecote. In 1338 he granted Bedcote to his son John and John's wife Margaret, reserving a remainder to…
View historical person →William de Sulham, Lord of Sulham
Dates: flourished circa 1104
A medieval landholder associated with Sulham and other Berkshire and Buckinghamshire estates, and recorded as giving tithes to Abingdon Abbey in 1104.
View historical person →William de Sulham
Dates: died by 1250
A medieval member of the de Sulham family who held Adwell before his death by 1250.
View historical person →William de Tendring, Court holder of Aldham
Dates: fl. 1371
A fourteenth-century Essex landholder recorded with associates as holder of the Aldham court on 8 July 1371.
View historical person →William de Tracy, Illegitimate son of Henry I, lord of Moretonhampsted
Dates: fl. 12th century
A son of King Henry I who received Moretonhampsted as a royal grant. His daughter Grace married Sir John de Sudeley.
View historical person →William de Ufford, Son of William, Earl of Suffolk
Dates: dates not established in the cited source
William was the second of the three sons named in the successive remainder settlement of Aldringham Manor and died without issue, according to Copinger.
View historical person →William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke, royal half-brother of Henry III
Dates: c. 1225–1296
French-born nobleman and prominent member of the court of Henry III. Through his marriage to Joan de Monchesney he acquired the Monchesney interest in Shrivenham and received a…
View historical person →William de Walton
Dates: fl. 1242
A medieval landholder recorded as jointly holding Eggergarth and Lydiate in 1242.
View historical person →William de Warenne, earl of Surrey, 5th Earl of Surrey, 1st Earl of Surrey, Norman baron and Domesday landholder
Dates: Died 1208
William de Warenne was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and earl of Surrey who held extensive lands and feudal rights in England.
View historical person →William de Whitefield
Dates: Flourished after Edward de Whitefield
Holder in the recorded succession of the Whitefield-related fractional fee in Adgestone.
View historical person →