10 Jul Lordship Title of Peasemore (Donnington) ID1583
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Oidelard held this manor of Ralph de Mortimer at the time of the Domesday Survey, but it soon passed into the hands of Richard de Peasemore, who was the owner of another manor here, and who appears to have acquired this manor early in the reign of Henry I. Richard had a son Philip, who was associated with him in a quarrel with the abbey of Abingdon, and another Richard, possibly the grandson of the former, owed a mark in 1204 for having recognizance of novel disseisin for his free tenement here, which he was holding later in this century. He died before 1263, when his widow Julia claimed one-third of the manor from his son William, also from another son Richard, and her dower in other lands there from Reginald Fitz Peter and others. William de Peasemore died before 1280, when his son Richard was under age. In due course Richard obtained seisin of the manor and died seised of it in 1300, when his heir was his daughter Agnes, an infant less than a year old. The following year the king ordered a dower to be assigned to Richard's widow Agnes, and it appears that a third of the manor was held in dower by Alice the widow of William. Alice had taken as her second husband Robert le Poer, and they were holding their share of this manor in 1307, and Robert Power, either this man or a son of the same name, was holding it in 1322–3 and in 1325. Before 1320–1 the manor, with the reversion of Alice's dower, seems to have passed into the hands of Richard de Abberbury of Donnington (q.v.), for in that year he granted it to Simon son of Robert de Norton and his wife. The subsequent history is obscure, but Simon was holding the manor in 1324 and 1327, when part of it was held of him by Warin de Lisle, lord of the adjoining manor of Beedon. How long Simon continued to hold it is uncertain, nor are his heirs known, but it is probable that William Nououn or Noioun, who held the manor in 1360, was his son. At this point there is another difficulty in the descent. A William Noion or Noun was holding this manor in 1398, but twenty years before, in 1377–8, the manor or the reversion of it seems to have been conveyed by William Lemere and his wife to Sir Richard de Abberbury. How the grantees obtained their right in the manor has not been found, but it seems clear, at any rate, that Sir Richard obtained the manor in 1377–8 and attached it to his manor of Donnington, which he sold in 1415 to Thomas Chaucer, whose only daughter married as her second husband Thomas de Montagu Earl of Salisbury, who was holding this manor in 1425 and in 1428, just before his death that year. This manor like the others seems to have continued a parcel of the manor of Donnington (q.v.) and with that manor to have passed to the Crown in 1535.
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