07 Nov Lordship Title of Tilbrook ID13927
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In 1086 Tilbrook belonged to William de Warenne. It was assessed at 5 hides and valued at 100s. There were twenty sokemen there, who had held in the time of the Confessor, and could assign their land to whom they pleased and put themselves under another lord. William de Warenne had added this property to his fief by force, and Hugh de Beauchamp as the successor of Ralf Taillebois claimed the land from him, but without success. Documentary evidence is wanting concerning the early history of Tilbrook, but as William de Warenne also held the manor of Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire, and as Tilbrook in 1298 is spoken of as a hamlet appertaining to Kimbolton Manor, it is probable that their early history is identical, and that by 1199 Tilbrook, like Kimbolton, was in the hands of Geoffrey Fitz Piers Earl of Essex, the husband of the heiress of the Mandevilles. Some time after the death of William de Mandeville (the younger son of Geoffrey Fitz Piers) the earldom of Essex with much of his property passed to his sister's son Humphrey de Bohun second Earl of Hereford. Six portions of knights' fees were held of the latter in Tilbrook of his honour of Kimbolton. His son Humphrey de Bohun declared in 1287 that the whole vill of Tilbrook belonged to his fief, and that the tenants there attended the view of frankpledge that he held at Kimbolton.
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