It was purchased by the lord of a local manor, who passed it to William Bullock for public display in London where it created a sensation.

When they died, the holding normally passed to their next heir-who might be the eldest son / daughter ( primogeniture ); or youngest son / daughter ( Borough English or ultimogeniture ); or a division between children ( partible inheritance ), depending upon the custom of that particular manor.

Donington manor is also thought to have been passed from John de la Rye to Peter of Savoy about 1255, when a charter was granted for a market to be held at the manor on Saturdays.

After the manor came into the possession of Edward III he passed it to his son Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, founder of the Yorkist line.

At the end of the 14th century Edward III acquired Blemond's manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks of the London Charterhouse, who kept the area mostly rural.

Edward III acquired Blemond's manor, and passed it on to the Carthusian monks who governed it until Henry VIII granted it to the Earl of Southampton.

After her execution, the manor returned to the King who held it until his death in 1547, when it passed to his final wife Katherine Parr, who lived in the house with her stepdaughter Princess Elizabeth.

The original lord of the manor of Ickenham was Geoffrey de Mandeville, from whom it passed to William de Brock and then, in 1334, to John Charlton whose son John owned Swakeleys from 1350.

Upon Sir Thomas ' death in 1510, the manor passed to Sir John Peeche as his executor.

The manor belonged to the Archbishops of Canterbury until the time of Henry VIII, when it passed by exchange to the Crown.

The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell ( d 1854 ), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip, Lord of the Treasury, m. Anne Augusta Wilmot-Horton ( daughter of the Governor of Ceylon d. 17 / 9 / 1843 ), m. 2 1844 Frances Byng ( daughter of Sir John Byng Earl of Staffford, d. 1846 ), m. 3.

Following the King's execution in 1649, the manor passed rapidly through various parliamentarian ownerships including Leeds MP Adam Baynes and civil war general John Lambert but, following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, was back in the ownership of Henrietta Maria ( now Charles I's widow and mother of the new King, Charles II ).

Before 1066 the manor of Wakefield belonged to Edward the Confessor and it passed to William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings.

When that family died out in 1508, the manor and castle passed to George Manners, who inherited the castle and barony through his mother.

Upon Gregory's death, the manor passed to his cousin George Gregory and then in 1860 to a distant relative, John Sherwin-Gregory.

The manor passed through several sets of disparate hands in the twentieth century.

In 1704 the manor passed to the Uthwatts, his relatives, and extended the house over time.

Charles I gave the manor of Ribbesford ( in whose parish the Borough of Bewdley lies ) to his brothers in 1627 and they passed it to him.

Abbot Gervace subsequently assigned the manor to his mother, and it passed into private ownership.

By the 13th century Count Alan ’ s manor had passed into the hands of the Lascelles family, who may have been resident landlords and were closely involved with the parish church.

This manor is earliest known to be held by Auduid, the Old English spelling of Old Swedish Ødhvidh, who once held Hanging Grimston near Kirby Underdale jointly with Godrida in the time of Edward the Confessor, but was passed to Osward and Rodmund by the time of the Domesday Book.

The other half of the manor passed to John Sigston of Allertonshire, granted free warren here, to the Pigot family and thenceforth to the Metcalfes.

The history of the manor begins in 1335 when King Edward III gave the manor of Datchet to William de Montacute, who then passed it on to Sir John Molins, who held it until 1631.

For example, a man might be lord of the manor to his own tenants but a vassal to his own overlord, who in turn was a vassal to the king.

A feudal baron was a true titular dignity, with the right originally to attend Parliament, yet even a feudal baron, lord of the manor of many manors, was a vassal to the king.

Before the passing of an Enclosure Act 1817, the freemen of York, who were occupiers of houses within a division or ward of the city, called Monk Ward, were, together with certain other persons, entitled to common of pasture and right of stray or average, and had immemorially used and enjoyed the same, in and over a parcel of ground called Heworth Moor, of which G. A. Thweng, lord of the manor of Heworth, was then seised in fee ; another piece of land, called Heworth Grange, of which the king was then seised in fee ; and certain closes and other parcels of ground, called Hall Fields, of which E. Prest and others were then seised in fee.

The king probably lodged at his nearby manor house at Writtle.

At the Norman Conquest, the king took the manor of Aylesbury for himself, and it is listed as a royal manor in the Domesday Book, 1086.

Aylesbury was declared the county town of Buckinghamshire in 1529 by King Henry VIII: Aylesbury Manor was among the many properties belonging to Thomas Boleyn the father of Anne Boleyn and it is rumoured that the change was made by the king in order to curry favour with the holders of the manor.

Three years later, in 1464 ( allegedly on Jacquetta's instructions ), the beautiful, widowed Elizabeth and her two young sons approached the young king as he hunted in Whittlebury Forest near the Woodville manor.

The Duke of Anjou, another brother of the king, constructed another manor near Beauty, of which no trace remains.

She died at the manor of Mesnil, in Normandy, while she had left to rejoin the king, in February 1450, three days after her delivery, most likely of complications of childbirth.

James Graham rose for the king during the English civil war, and in 1645, as the army of the Duke of Argyll passed through the Airthrey estate on its way to the battle of Kilsyth, they burned down the manor house.

During the reign of king Canute the manor of Saltwood was granted to the priory of Christ Church in Canterbury, but during the 12th century it became home of Henry d ' Essex, constable of England.

The affix ' Royal ' was given to the village in the late 11th century by the king, who gave the lord of the manor of Farnham Bertram de Verdun the Grand Serjeanty, on the condition of providing a glove and putting it on the king's right hand at the coronation, and supporting his right arm, while the Royal sceptre was in his hand ( see also Manor of Worksop ).

The hamlet name ' Kingshill ' means a hill in possession of the king, which local folklore suggests was King John ; there is certainly evidence of King John granting the manor at Kingshill to Hugh de Gournay in 1213, although this same document states that the land was previously possessed by Geoffrey fitzPeter.

In 1623 the manor was given by the king to the Goodwin family, who expanded the manor house into a fine mansion.

His son Roger II ( d. about 1131 ) and grandson Roger III ( d. post 1177 ) also held the manor of Dursley in-chief of the king.

In the days of Edward the Confessor the manor of Aldeberie was held by Alwin, the king ’ s thegn.

Shortly after, in June 1536, the St Saviour ’ s Abbey of Bermondsey was induced to ' grant ' its land to the king, part of the Dissolution process, hence he now owned all of the Abbey ’ s manor west of the high street.

The land in question moved to had been in the monastery's ownership since 1422, in which last year of the life of Henry V that king had by Act of Parliament separated the manor of Isleworth from the Duchy of Cornwall and given it to Syon.

On 28 September 1309 Fulk V obtained royal license to grant the manor of Alveston, which was held in-chief from the king, to Walter de Gloucester ( d. 1310 ) for life.

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Before 1426 a wooden hunting manor for king Władysław Jagiełło was built in the middle of the Białowieża Forest on the Lutownia stream.

In 1548 the king, in consideration of the compulsory surrender of certain lands in Surrey, granted to Anne of Cleves the priory and manor of Dartford.

Part of the treaty laid out that if the archbishop laid an interdict or excommunicated anyone in the lands of King Philip or any subject of King Richard in the archdiocese of Rouen, then the archiepiscopal manor of Andali should be forfeit to either king until after a special tribunal had determined if the archbishop's punishment was valid.