Crown and Duchy of Lancaster, Royal and ducal estate administration
Dates: From 1322; Crown connection strengthened in 1399
Biography
Agardsley was administered within the former Lancastrian estate, with surviving Duchy of Lancaster court-roll evidence from 1404 to 1618. The precise legal stages between Thomas of Lancaster's forfeiture and the later seventeenth-century private ownership are not fully documented in the accessible sources.
Notes / Sources
This entry records institutional lordship or estate administration and should not be treated as proof of a single uninterrupted legal title without examination of the underlying records.
Research sources:
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service, Guide to Sources No. 7: Manorial Records, entries for Agardsley and Marchington & Agardsley; Staffordshire County Council, Newborough Extensive Urban Survey, section 2.4.2.1. — https://staffordshirehistorycentre.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/guide-to-sources-no.7-manorial-records-2021.pdf
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