30 Oct Lordship Title of Harrold ID13834
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Gilbert de Blosseville was the Domesday tenant of this manor, and the Blosseville family remained in Harrold certainly for the next 146 years, for in 1232 Simon de Blosseville acknowledged the right of Ralph Morin to 4 hides of land here. The Morin family had at this time been established in the parish for some years, for as early as 1194 Ralph Morin paid the sheriff 62s. 1d. for a half fee here. Between 1202 and 1235 Ralph Morin was engaged in various suits concerning small portions of land, and in 1235 was acknowledged to hold two knights' fees in Harrold. Ralph Morin (presumably a son of the aforenamed Ralph) and John his son obtained a charter of free warren in their demesne lands in 1253, and in 1271–2 they were accused of unjustly distraining Hugh Gobion and Maud his wife, free tenants in Harrold. Between this date and 1278 an alienation of the manor took place to John de Grey, who held it in that year, and who in 1286–7 claimed free warren in Harrold Manor of the inheritance of Ralph Morin, who came and joined himself with John in proving the latter's claim. From John de Grey, who died in 1323, Harrold Manor passed to his younger son Roger de Grey de Ruthyn, and from this date onwards the manor follows the same descent as that of Wrest (q.v.), passing through the Earls of Kent, the ownership being vested at the present day in Lord Lucas and Dingwall. In 1706 Henry Grey Earl of Kent was created Earl of Harrold. He died without male issue surviving in 1740, when the earldom of Harrold, with the dukedom, earldom and marquessate of Kent and other of his dignities, became extinct, the marquessate of Grey and barony of Lucas devolving on his granddaughter Jemima Campbell.
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