10 Jul Lordship Title of Potsgrove (Lucy) ID1229
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Gozelin le Breton was tenant of Potsgrove at the time of the Survey. He was succeeded by his son Hugh, whose great-granddaughter Juliana married Geoffrey de Lucy, in whose family Potsgrove Manor is subsequently found. In the early 13th century he appears as overlord of the Blankfronts (whose manor is treated below). The descent of the manor is the same as that of Woodcroft in Luton (q.v.) until 1461. In 1275–6 the whole vill of Potsgrove was held for a fee and a quarter of Geoffrey de Lucy. In 1330 Geoffrey de Lucy, grandson of the lastnamed, claimed view of frankpledge in Potsgrove and Gledly as appurtenant to his adjacent manor of Gledly. An inquisition taken in 1461 on the possessions of Sir William Lucy states that he held Potsgrove Manor (here first definitely so called) for one-twentieth part of a knight's fee. His heirs were Elizabeth and Walter, children of his sister Eleanor Hopton, and William Vaux, son of another sister Maud. To William passed Woodcroft, which henceforward followed a different descent. Potsgrove and Gledly were divided between Elizabeth wife of Roger Corbet and Walter Hopton her brother, whose heir she became on his death within half a year of his uncle. The manor, which appears to have included little more than the site and a view of frankpledge, now follows the same descent as Gledly (q.v.). No mention has been found of it after 1602, but as the Duncombes, who owned Blankfront Manor, eventually obtained Gledly it seems likely that it became absorbed in their Potsgrove estate.
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