10 Jul Lordship Title of East Hanney or Philiberts ID1458
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The tenant of the manor about 1240 was Roger de la Hyde, who was holding it for a knight's fee. He seems to have held it in right of his wife Mabel, for a release of 6 hides was made by Matthew de Columbars to Roger, Mabel and the heirs of Mabel in 1240. In 1288 Philiberts was in the possession of Edmund de la Hyde, but in his case also it seems to have been his wife who was in fact the tenant. Edmund had a release of the estate from Walter de la Rivere in that year; four years later he and Amice his wife conveyed it to Hugh de St. Philibert. It remained for three generations in the family of St. Philibert. John son of Hugh had a grant of free warren here in 1317. At his death in 1333 the manor included a capital messuage, seventeen free tenants, a bond tenant, a watermill and a free chapel. His heir was his son John, who proved his age in 1348. He entered into an agreement with the king that he would not alienate his lands except to the Crown, but in 1355 he had licence to raise money on his manor of East Hanney in order to equip himself for an expedition to Gascony. By this means it came temporarily into the hands of Sir John Brocas, who held it in 1359. It probably afterwards came into the possession of the Crown according to the agreement, and was granted to Alice Perrers, who held it in 1372. On her forfeiture the king granted the manor to John Holland, his brother, afterwards Earl of Huntingdon, for his life. The reversion was granted to William Wyndsor, the husband of Alice Perrers; the grant in fee-tail in 1388 to the Earl of Huntingdon and his wife Elizabeth was therefore invalid. On the forfeiture of the earl's estates in 1400 a further grant of this manor was made to John Wyndsor and his heirs. Meanwhile Elizabeth, the widow of the earl, with her second husband John Cornwall had entered upon the manor, and William Wyndsor had disposed of his reversion to a certain William Calseby. The heir of William Calseby, his nephew Ralph Symond, claimed the manor against John Cornwall and Elizabeth in 1406, and granted it before 1418 to Robert Skern and several others. Robert Skern, who had married Joan, daughter and heir of Alice Perrers, established his claim in that year against the Cornwalls. His feoffees subsequently conveyed the manor to John Cottesmore, John Stopyndon, John Hyde and others, who had licence in 1437 to convey it to John Golafre, Thomas Fettiplace and other feoffees. They evidently held it to the use of John Golafre, for with his manors of Fyfield, Garford and Eaton (q.v.) it was settled in 1448 on William Marquess of Suffolk and Alice his wife for their lives. The reversion belonged to William James, who probably held it in trust for the heirs of the Marquess of Suffolk. The manor was forfeited by Edmund Earl of Suffolk in 1503–4 and was granted with Fyfield to Katherine Gordon in 1510 and to her husband James Strangways and herself in survivorship two years later. The reversion, subject to a lease to Christopher Ashton, was sold in 1538 to John Williams, master of the Jewels. He had licence six years later to alienate the manor to Alice Yate, widow, and Thomas Yate. Philiberts followed the descent in the Yate family of their estate at Lyford (q.v.). When last mentioned it was in the possession of William Boote and Mary his wife, who conveyed it in 1753 to Robert Dowsett. In 1803 it had lost its identity as a separate manor.
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