02 Aug Lordship Title of Edworth ID13754
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At the date of the Domesday Survey Edworth contained two manors. Of these, the principal, EDWORTH MANOR, formerly belonging to Alestan of Boscombe, was held in 1086 by two knights under William d'Eu; its extent was 7 hides 3½ virgates, and its value £8. As in the case of other manors (cf. Arlesey and Sundon), held by William d'Eu at the time of the Survey, the overlordship subsequently passed by marriage to the earls of Pembroke. Anselm, earl of Pembroke, by whose marriage the overlordship had come into the family, died in 1246, and his sisters and co-heirs Joan and Maud succeeded to the Edworth overlordship. Joan's share passed by the marriage of her daughter Joan to William de Valence, created earl of Pembroke in right of his wife in 1247. On the death of Aymer de Valence in 1323 the overlordship of half a knight's fee in Edworth passed to his niece, Elizabeth Comyn, wife of Richard Talbot, and the direct ancestress of the earls of Shrewsbury. The overlordship continued to be exercised by the Talbots, and their ownership of it is last mentioned in 1581, when the jurors were unable to discover the nature of the service by which it was held, but previously it was invariably valued at half a knight's fee. Through the marriage of Maud, the other coheir of Anselm, earl of Pembroke, to Hugh Bigod, Earl Marshal, the other moiety of the Edworth overlordship passed into the possession of the Earls Marshal of England. Thomas Plantagenet son of Edward I, and at that time Earl Marshal, was overlord in 1321. Twenty-five years later his daughter Margaret, claiming to be Countess Marshal, was in possession, and through her the overlordship passed to the Mowbrays, who became earls of Norfolk. The last reference found to this half of the overlordship is in 1488, when the manor is referred to as lately held by John duke of Norfolk, who died in 1475 without male issue. As he had married Elizabeth daughter of John Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, to whom belonged a share in the overlordship, the divided parts probably became reunited.
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