31 Oct Lordship Title of Blagrave ID14317
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Land in BLAGRAVE (Blacgrave, xii cent.) was granted by Henry II to Ralph de Lanvalei, presumably the Ralph who held Eastbury (q.v.). From 1190 to 1194 it was in the hands of Robert Burdon. In 1196 it was restored to a Ralph de Lanvalei, but seems to have been successfully claimed against him in the next year by William the son of the first Ralph. William, who was holding Blagrave about 1210, must have died shortly afterwards, for the sheriff was ordered in 1215 to grant his lands here to Richard Walens, claimant in right of his wife, the daughter of Ralph de Lanvalei. In spite of this order William's son William retained them, and his daughter and heir Hawise and her husband John de Burgh had an overlordship in about 1240. Meanwhile Geoffrey Arsic appears to have been enfeoffed as tenant in demesne. He granted one-eighth of a knight's fee in Blagrave to John de Rivers in 1230 to hold of him. The rights of the various tenants are subsequently a little difficult to understand. William le Breton and John de Rivers held a quarter of a knight's foe of John de Burgh about 1240, the heir of Geoffrey Arsic presumably holding a mesne lordship. Reginald Arsic in 1256 granted to Henry de Bathe the homage and service of Henry de Sewelle. Land in Blagrave 'put to farm' then appears among the possessions of the descendants of Henry de Bathe till in 1331 Edmund de Bohun granted the manor to Richard de Rivers. John son of Richard de Rivers granted it before 1348 to Henry Dale, who appears to have conveyed it to John de Estbury. John de Estbury died in possession in 1374, and a John de Estbury, 'junior,' perhaps a cousin, was in possession in 1387. Margaret Estbury, who held the manor in 1428, was apparently widow of the latter John. The John Estbury who died in 1508 directed his feoffees to make estate of his land in the 'Woodlandes,' probably this manor, to John Dawnete in reversion after the death of his wife Elizabeth. Shortly afterwards Blagrave was in the possession of Oliver Hyde and others, who in 1510 conveyed it to William Essex. The manorial rights then followed the descent of the manor of Plukenets (q.v.), the Earl of Craven being the present owner.
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