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Offering a chance to add your name to a list of illustrious former titleholders, including Hugh de Audley, a favourite and ...
On his death the manor passed to the 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, who fought in the bloody War of the Roses, where he eventually ...
As modest students of medieval history, we see that your demands provide a status for the peasants – the students, the vassals – the faculty, but none for the role of the Lord of the Manor.
A manor that imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots was also home to an advisor to Henry VI and a scientist who had a major influence on modern astronomy during its near 600 years of existence.
You would think that there would be just a few occupations during the Middle Ages. There would be the lord of the manor, the knights, the lord’s household and the peasants. But this is just a broad ...
Two care homes in High Wycombe are opening their doors to the community to mark 80 years since the end of World War II.
Old Manor Farm is a Grade II*-Listed country house that comes with two cottages, outbuildings and equestrian facilities. It ...
As modest students of medieval history, we see that your demands provide a status for the peasants – the students, the vassals – the faculty, but no one for the role of the Lord of the Manor.
Villages have been evacuated for many reasons over the years, including flood, fire and plague, but one Surrey village was emptied purely on the whim of a lord of the manor. In 1784, Capt William ...
But from the French Revolution onwards, a piecemeal emancipation allowed wealthy Jewish merchants, industrialists and bankers to buy estates, often displacing the dispossessed or impoverished old ...