MANORIAL HERITAGE REGISTRY CONVEYANCE & DESCENT HISTORY ============================================================================ Wymington Public record: https://manorialregistry.com/?mhr_manor=wymington Exported: 15 October 2026, 06:34 GMT+0000 Recorded historical holders: 25 Location: Wymington, Bedfordshire SUCCESSION REGISTER | EARLIEST RECORDED TO PRESENT ============================================================================ Relationships below reproduce saved published paths; unrecorded routes are not inferred. 1. William Cantlow Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 2. George Transfer: Succession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 3. and co-heir Millicent wife of Eudo de la Zouche | 1273 Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 4. Alured of Lincoln at Domesday Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 5. Thus Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 6. Philip Burnel | 1299 Transfer: Passed Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 7. Roger de Nowers certainly Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 8. Roger de Nowers Transfer: Succession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 9. Richard de Nowers his son | 1346 Transfer: Passed Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 10. Hugh Curteys and John his son | 1352 Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 11. Sir Thomas Bromfletc Transfer: Conveyance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 12. Joan Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 13. Edward | 1521 Transfer: Succession Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 14. Roland Lacy and William Hobbes | 1567–1568 Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: Joint Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 15. William Bletsoe | 1598 Transfer: Conveyance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 16. William Bletsoe on his father's death Transfer: Passed Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 17. John Sawyer | 1708 Transfer: Sale Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 18. Major-General Livesay | 1713 Transfer: Sale Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 19. Robert de la Briwere 'in our service at Dover | 1224 Transfer: Grant Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 20. Isabella Cardun | 1257 Transfer: Conveyance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 21. John de Exmouth Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 22. John Curteys Transfer: Conveyance Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 23. Isabella Quarel | Attested 1278–1279 Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 24. Turchil Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded 25. Henry Bishop | Attested 1278–1279 Transfer: Recorded holder Relationship to present holder: Not recorded DETAILED CONVEYANCE HISTORIES AND LINKED PEDIGREES ============================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 1 William Cantlow Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Overlordship account 1: William Cantlow held the overlordship as part of this barony in the early part of the 13th century, and was succeeded by his son George, on whose death without issue in 1273 this right passed to his sister and co-heir Millicent wife of Eudo de la Zouche. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 2 George Transfer: Succession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Overlordship account 1: William Cantlow held the overlordship as part of this barony in the early part of the 13th century, and was succeeded by his son George, on whose death without issue in 1273 this right passed to his sister and co-heir Millicent wife of Eudo de la Zouche. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 3 | 1273 and co-heir Millicent wife of Eudo de la Zouche Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: Overlordship account 1: William Cantlow held the overlordship as part of this barony in the early part of the 13th century, and was succeeded by his son George, on whose death without issue in 1273 this right passed to his sister and co-heir Millicent wife of Eudo de la Zouche. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 4 Alured of Lincoln at Domesday Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Overlordship account 2: A second manor, also known as WYMINGTON MANOR, was held by Alured of Lincoln at Domesday. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 5 Thus Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Mesne Lordship: Thus in 1278–9 Roger de Nowers held of Robert Burnel, who held of the heirs of George Cantlow, who in their turn held from John de Wahull. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 6 | 1299 Philip Burnel Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Mesne Lordship: By 1299 this interest had passed to Philip Burnel, and after 1301 no further trace of it has been found. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 7 Roger de Nowers certainly Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: Roger de Nowers certainly held the manor, then including 4½ hides, from 1275 onwards. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 8 Roger de Nowers Transfer: Succession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: The year of his death is not known, but he was succeeded by his son Roger de Nowers, who died some time previous to 1298–9, at which date the guardianship of Roger, his son and heir, fell into the king's hands by reason of the minority of the overlord. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 9 | 1346 Richard de Nowers his son Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: In 1330 this Roger was still holding Wymington Manor, which by 1346 had passed to Richard de Nowers his son. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 10 | 1352 Hugh Curteys and John his son Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: He died some time before 1352, when his brother John de Nowers alienated this manor to Hugh Curteys and John his son. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 11 Sir Thomas Bromfletc Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: Within the next two years the executors of John Curteys alienated the manor to Sir Thomas Bromfletc, who in 1403 obtained a charter of free warren in his demesne lands there. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 12 Joan Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: Joan died seised of this manor in 1514, when her heir was her son Thomas Stanley Earl of Derby. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 13 | 1521 Edward Transfer: Succession Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: He held the manor till his death in 1521, when he was succeeded by his son Edward, followed in 1572 by his son Henry Stanley Earl of Derby. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 14 | 1567–1568 Roland Lacy and William Hobbes Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: joint Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: According to an inquisition bearing date 1595, Henry made a settlement of this manor on his son Ferdinand in the year 1567–8, and together with him in 1591 he alienated the property by fine to Roland Lacy and William Hobbes. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 15 | 1598 William Bletsoe Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: In 1598 the latter again transferred Wymington Manor to William Bletsoe. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 16 William Bletsoe on his father's death Transfer: Passed Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: He, whose family originally came from Irchester in Northamptonshire, married as second wife Agnes daughter of Thomas Cobbe of Sharnbrook, and this manor passed to their son William Bletsoe on his father's death in 1639–40. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 17 | 1708 John Sawyer Transfer: Sale Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: Anne Pearles married a second husband, Charles Williamson, and in 1700 she and her son conveyed the manor to trustees, and finally in 1708 they sold it to John Sawyer, whose son John sold it in 1713 to Major-General Livesay. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 18 | 1713 Major-General Livesay Transfer: Sale Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 1: Anne Pearles married a second husband, Charles Williamson, and in 1700 she and her son conveyed the manor to trustees, and finally in 1708 they sold it to John Sawyer, whose son John sold it in 1713 to Major-General Livesay. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 19 | 1224 Robert de la Briwere 'in our service at Dover Transfer: Grant Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 2: In 1224 the king granted this same estate to Robert de la Briwere 'in our service at Dover,' and this grant was confirmed in 1231. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 20 | 1257 Isabella Cardun Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 2: In 1257 William Briwere alienated 2 carucates of land and two messuages in Wymington to Isabella Cardun, the wife of William le Mercer, who still held the manor in 1276. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 21 John de Exmouth Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 2: John de Exmouth held in Wymington in 1328, and died in 1347 seised of this property, which he was stated to hold at this time by the service of finding 'one Hobelar in the king's war within the realm of England at his own cost for forty days at 6d. a day.' He left as heir a son John, whose daughter Clementia died under age in 1361, when her heir was declared to be Richard son of William Harcourt. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 22 John Curteys Transfer: Conveyance Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 2: Immediately after her death Richard Harcourt alienated her lands without licence to John Curteys, to whom belonged Wymington Manor, in which this property subsequently becomes merged. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 23 | Attested 1278–1279 Isabella Quarel Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 3: This land, like other of William Spec's, became attached to the barony of Warden, and in 1278–9 was held by Isabella Quarel. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 24 Turchil Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 4: Of this 1 hide was held by Turchil, whilst 3 virgates belonged to five brothers and their mother, and had formerly been held by their father Lant. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOLDER 25 | Attested 1278–1279 Henry Bishop Transfer: Recorded holder Holding arrangement: sole Narrative / explanation: Lordship account 4: In 1278–9 Henry Bishop held 3 virgates of land in Wymington of William le Enveyse, who held them of Hemiestowe (Elstow ?) for 5s. and 1 lb. of pepper. Relationship paths: No published path recorded. END OF EXPORTED APPROVED CONVEYANCE HISTORY