MANORIAL HERITAGE REGISTRY CONVEYANCE & DESCENT HISTORY ============================================================================ ABBOTS MANOR Public record: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_manor=abbots-manor-3 Exported: 15 October 2026, 21:05 GMT+0000 Recorded historical holders: 3 Location: Braunston, Northamptonshire SUCCESSION REGISTER | EARLIEST RECORDED TO PRESENT ============================================================================ Relationships below reproduce saved published paths; unrecorded routes are not inferred. 1. Dame Hillaria Trusbut, widow of Sir Robert de Boulers, heiress and landholder in the Trussebut/Boulers inheritance. | unknown - after 1216 Transfer: Inherited or otherwise held a one-third part of Brandeston/Braunston; the precise commencement of her interest is not established by the sources located. Holding arrangement: Share / one-third part of Brandeston/Braunston, as described by Eyton / Trussebut/Boulers interest Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=dame-hillaria-trusbut-4281 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 2. Lilleshall Abbey, Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Shropshire. | after 1216 - 1538 Transfer: Gift by Dame Hillaria Trusbut of her land at Braundeston, identified as a third part of Branston/Braunston, to maintain a canon at Lilleshall Abbey. The charter's explanatory text records the revenues of the third of Brandeston being applied to the abbey's uses. Holding arrangement: Share / At least one-third of Brandeston/Braunston is directly evidenced by the charter; later heritage records describe the manor itself as belonging to Lilleshall Abbey, but the process by which any additional share was acquired is not established. / Lilleshall Abbey Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=lilleshall-abbey-4282 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 3. Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros, Knight of the Garter. | 1538 - 1543 Transfer: At the Dissolution, the lands of the Braunston manor associated with Lilleshall Abbey were sold to the Earl of Rutland. The available source does not specify the precise legal instrument, exact completion date, or whether the sale covered the whole manor or only the abbey's interest. Holding arrangement: Other / Not stated in the available sources; described as the manor's lands or the lands belonging to the abbey manor. / Rutland estate Profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=thomas-manners-4283 Relationship to present holder: Not recorded DETAILED CONVEYANCE HISTORIES AND LINKED PEDIGREES ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 1 | unknown - after 1216 Dame Hillaria Trusbut, widow of Sir Robert de Boulers, heiress and landholder in the Trussebut/Boulers inheritance. Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=dame-hillaria-trusbut-4281 Transfer: Inherited or otherwise held a one-third part of Brandeston/Braunston; the precise commencement of her interest is not established by the sources located. Holding arrangement: share Share / interest: one-third part of Brandeston/Braunston, as described by Eyton Shared holding: Trussebut/Boulers interest Narrative / explanation: Eyton states that Hillaria Trussebut's charter to Lilleshall gave all her land at Braundeston, which he identifies as a third part of Branston in Northamptonshire. The source does not establish when she first acquired the share, and the family relationship to earlier holders is not used as a substitute for a documented manor link. Source citation: Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, volume 11, p. 124-125, discussion of Hillaria Trussebut's grant to Lilleshall; the text cites the Lilleshall Chartulary, folio 76. Source URL: https://www.melocki.org.uk/eyton/Vol11.html Other parties: Dame Hillaria Trusbut Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=dame-hillaria-trusbut-4281 Person dates: Died by 12 April 1241; the grant is dated by Eyton to later than 1216. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 2 | after 1216 - 1538 Lilleshall Abbey, Augustinian abbey of St Mary, Shropshire. Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=lilleshall-abbey-4282 Transfer: Gift by Dame Hillaria Trusbut of her land at Braundeston, identified as a third part of Branston/Braunston, to maintain a canon at Lilleshall Abbey. The charter's explanatory text records the revenues of the third of Brandeston being applied to the abbey's uses. Previous holder: Dame Hillaria Trusbut Holding arrangement: share Share / interest: At least one-third of Brandeston/Braunston is directly evidenced by the charter; later heritage records describe the manor itself as belonging to Lilleshall Abbey, but the process by which any additional share was acquired is not established. Shared holding: Lilleshall Abbey Narrative / explanation: The direct medieval charter evidence establishes an abbey interest in Hillaria Trusbut's one-third share. Eyton dates the grant to later than 1216 because it is absent from Pope Honorius's confirmation issued after that year. Independent Northamptonshire heritage records subsequently describe the Braunston manor as belonging to Lilleshall Abbey and state that it was still tenanted in 1421. The entry therefore preserves the distinction between the charter's directly evidenced share and the later description of the manor as an abbey holding. Source citation: Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, volume 11, p. 124-125, citing the Lilleshall Chartulary, folio 76; corroborated by Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record MNN8327, Probable Medieval Manor, Braunston. Source URL: https://her.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNN8327/ Other parties: Lilleshall Abbey Previous holder profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=dame-hillaria-trusbut-4281 Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=lilleshall-abbey-4282 Person dates: Founded in the 12th century; surrendered at the Dissolution in 1538. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 3 | 1538 - 1543 Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros, Knight of the Garter. Person: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=thomas-manners-4283 Transfer: At the Dissolution, the lands of the Braunston manor associated with Lilleshall Abbey were sold to the Earl of Rutland. The available source does not specify the precise legal instrument, exact completion date, or whether the sale covered the whole manor or only the abbey's interest. Previous holder: Lilleshall Abbey Holding arrangement: other Share / interest: Not stated in the available sources; described as the manor's lands or the lands belonging to the abbey manor. Shared holding: Rutland estate Narrative / explanation: Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record MNN8327 and Historic England's Braunstonbury scheduled-monument record both state that the manor or its lands belonged to Lilleshall Abbey and were sold to the Earl of Rutland at the Dissolution. A separate Northamptonshire HER entry for Braunston Mill dates the Rutland acquisition of the former religious-house manors to circa 1540. Thomas Manners was the first Earl of Rutland from 1525 and died in 1543. No secure subsequent holder of this particular Abbots Manor has been identified in the sources searched. Source citation: Northamptonshire Historic Environment Record MNN8327, Probable Medieval Manor, Braunston; Historic England, Braunstonbury deserted medieval village, moat and fishpond, National Heritage List entry 1017580; Northamptonshire HER MNN171602, Braunston Mill, for the circa 1540 Rutland acquisition context. Source URL: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1017580 Other parties: Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland Previous holder profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=lilleshall-abbey-4282 Historical person profile: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_person=thomas-manners-4283 Person dates: Born before 1492; died 20 September 1543. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. END OF EXPORTED APPROVED CONVEYANCE HISTORY