10 Jul Lordship Title of Campton ID1047
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Ralph de Langetot held the manor as undertenant at Domesday, but there is no evidence of its existence between 1086 and 1228, at which latter date it was in the possession of Henry son of Gerold, who gave it to Warine son of Gerold. The manor then passed to the latter's descendant Warine de Lisle (Insula) of Rougemont, who died seised of it in 1296. As his son Robert was then only six years old, Edward I in 1301 granted the custody of two parts of the manor, then extended at £12 13s. 6d., to Robert de Ispannia, yeoman of Edward Prince of Wales. The other third was held by Alice widow of Warine, as part of her dower, and the whole manor was held for a knight's fee. Robert came of age and was holding the manor in 1316, but alienated it in 1334 to his son John and his wife Maud, without licence from the king, for which omission John and Maud had to obtain pardon. Robert died in 1342–3, having become a monk shortly before his death. John, who was one of the first founders of the order of the Garter, was summoned to Parliament from 1350 to 1354, and died in 1356, the manor then descending to his son Robert, who sat in Parliament in 1357 and 1360. Robert died in 1399, having in 1368 given eighty-six knights' fees to the king. It is not known whether he left a son, although the visitation of Somersetshire for 1623 states that Sir William de Lisle was the son of this Robert. This Sir William, who was holding the manor of Campton in 1392, was more probably the brother of Robert, who apparently alienated the manor to him before his death, and he seems to have died without issue, when the manor escheated to the crown, and was probably granted to Reginald de Grey, who was holding in 1428, and it descended to his great-grandson George earl of Kent, who was lord of the manor in 1492. In 1499 the latter settled the manor on his son Richard Lord Grey and his wife Elizabeth, who were holding in 1504. Between that date and 1508 the manor was alienated to Giles Lord Daubeny, who died seised of it in the latter year, and his son and heir Henry probably conveyed the manor to Sir William Compton, who died seised of it in 1528, when it passed to the king as the result of a settlement made previously by Sir William Compton in order to ensure the observance of his will. Two years later it was leased to John Gostwick, auditor of the king, and Edward Copley, for twentyone years at an annual rent of £4. In 1543 Campton was again in the king's hands, and was annexed to the honor of Ampthill. Thomas Viscount Fenton, steward of the manor, surrendered his office in 1613, and Edward Lord Bruce was appointed in his stead. The office continued in the family of the earls of Elgin and Aylesbury, Robert Bruce holding in 1673; it was sold by them to the duke of Bedford in 1738, and the lease of the stewardship was renewed in 1771 and 1773, the then duke of Bedford still holding in 1839. The manorial rights were afterwards resumed by the crown, who holds them at the present day.
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