Lordship Title of Maidencourt ID1552

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The tenant in demesne in the time of Henry II was Osbert de la Herloteria, who was dead before 1190. The next tenant was Alice de Colville, who made a grant of 6 quarters of wheat here to the priory of Sandleford for the souls of John le Marshal and his son William Earl of Pembroke. She evidently had two daughters and co-heirs, of whom one, Sibyl, married a Birmingham and the other married Robert Beauchamp of Hatch, Somerset. Robert Beauchamp, nephew of Sibyl, and William de Birmingham held Maidencourt in the middle of the 13th century. Robert Beauchamp had a son John, his heir, who died in 1283. John's son John succeeded him, and seems to have made grants of this manor for a term of years, for in 1316 Robert de Viall was holding it and in 1325 John de Hurtrigge. John Beauchamp, however, paid subsidy in 1327 and 1333. He died in 1336, leaving a son and heir another John. John son of the latter was succeeded on his death in 1361 by his sister Cicely and John Meryet, son of another sister Eleanor John Meryet held the manor of Maidencourt in 1372, but seems to have conveyed it with half of Silverton in Devonshire to Matthew Gurney and Philippa his wife. They in 1403 conveyed both manors to William Oterhampton and others, who granted them five years later to John Upford, subject to the lifeinterest of Philippa and her second husband Sir John Tiptoft. The reversion subsequently passed to the king, and was assigned by him to the duchy of Cornwall in 1421. Maidencourt was granted in 1511 by Henry VIII to Sir Henry Wyatt; his son Sir Thomas sold it in 1542 to Richard Bridges, who also acquired the second moiety of the manor. His widow Joan had a life interest in it, the reversion belonging to his son Anthony. Anthony Bridges conveyed it in 1583 to the use of his daughter Eleanor on her marriage with George Browne. Eleanor died without issue and George Browne sold the manor in 1611 to Sir Francis Moore of Fawley. Maidencourt followed the descent of Fawley (q.v.) till 1755, when it was sold by Sir John Moore to Robert and John Butler of Wantage, whose heir Joseph Butler was in possession in 1803. The manorial rights had already lapsed in 1755.
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