10 Jul Lordship Title of North Standen ID1573
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In 1086 the manor of NORTH STANDEN (Standone, Standene, xi-xiv cent.; Staunden, xiiixvi cent.; Staunden Chaworth, Staunden Chaward, xiv cent.; North Standen, xiii-xx cent.) was held by Benzeline of Ernulf de Hesding, and it had formerly been held of Edward the Confessor by Brictric. It is believed that Maud, one of Ernulf's co-heirs, married Patrick de Chaworth (Cadurcis, Chaurces), and this manor passed to that family. Pain de Chaworth, who was probably grandson of Patrick, married Gundred de la Ferte and had a son Patrick, who compounded for his own wardship and marriage in 1239. Under Patrick a knight's fee at Standen was held at about this time by Hugh de Standen, while Michael de Cholderton also held half a fee there. It seems possible that Hugh de Standen was the Hugh de St. Martin who was holding the larger share of the manor a little later. He was succeeded about 1247 by his son Peter, who gave up this manor to Patrick de Chaworth, his overlord, by whom it was demised before 1249 to Peter Chaceporc. Patrick had, however, resumed the manor into his own hands before his death, which occurred in 1258, though both John widow of Hugh de St. Martin and Margery, Peter's widow, held dower there. Standen then formed part of Patrick's barony of Kempsford (co. Gloucs.), and besides the manor he held a mill there of Sir William de St. Martin as of the fee of Chisbury (co. Wilts.) The manor was assigned in dower to his widow, and it passed on her death in 1274 to her son Sir Pain de Chaworth. Pain was succeeded in 1279 by his brother Patrick, who died seised of the manor in 1283. Margery Dansey, Peter de St. Martin's widow, still held dower there. Standen was assigned to Patrick's widow Isabel, who afterwards married Hugh le Despenser. His daughter and heir Maud married Henry second son of Edmund Crouchback, who became Earl of Lancaster in 1327. Standen thus became part of the duchy of Lancaster. In 1349 it was granted by Henry Earl of Lancaster to Sir John de Walkyngton for life and it was held of the Duke of Lancaster at the time of his death in 1361 by Sir Andrew Peverel. It followed the same descent as Hungerford Manor to the Crown, and was granted in 1548 to Edward Duke of Somerset but in 1605 Edmund Hungerford is spoken of as lord of the manor when permission was granted to him to inclose the lands, as there was only one freeholder left, his father Edmund Hungerford, senior. The manor was granted in 1608 to Edward Phillips and John Seward, but Edmund Hungerford was dealing with it in 1650 and conveyed it in 1656 to Alexander Popham of Littlecote. Alexander was succeeded by his son Sir Francis Popham, who died on 28 August 1674. On the death of his son Alexander in 1705 without male issue the manor passed to his uncle Alexander, on whose death his son Francis succeeded. Francis died in 1735, and his elder son Edward was holding this manor in 1770 and died in 1779, when his son Francis succeeded. He died childless in 1780, having devised his estates to his nephew Edward William Leyborne, who then assumed the additional name of Popham. He was succeeded in 1843 by his son Edward William, on whose death unmarried in 1881 the estates passed to his nephew Francis William Leyborne-Popham. He died on 15 July 1907, and was succeeded by his brother Hugh Francis Arthur Leyborne-Popham, the present owner of the manor.
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