28 Nov Lordship Title of Totternhoe ID14090
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In the early part of the 13th century William de Landas held an estate in this parish by knight service, which was described as a messuage and a carucate of land. In 1234 it was released by his son Nicholas to William de Eltesden in return for an annual rent of 12 marks of silver. Nicholas de Landas died before 1241, in which year his widow Valentina also quitclaimed her right in this property to William on condition that 4 marks were reserved to her out of the estate during her lifetime. William de Eltesden is returned as part owner of one knight's fee in Totternhoe in the Testa de Nevill, and before 1247 he was succeeded by his son John, who in that year was defendant with the Prior of Dunstable in an action brought by William Russel and Hawise his wife to regain a carucate of land in Totternhoe and Whipsnade. In 1257 John de Eltesden mortgaged his land of Totternhoe 'sub Duna' and 'super Duna' to Thomas Inge for 16 marks. In the same year he sold part of his arable land and a grove on the Downs to Dunstable Priory, for which he was paid 35 marks and released from his mortgage to Thomas Inge. The necessity for raising money, however, seems to have remained, and shortly afterwards the 'sub Duna' property was purchased from John by the former mortgagee, together with the rents and homages of his tenants there. Thomas was succeeded by William Inge, who was seised of this estate in 1302, and died leaving as co-heir a daughter Joan. She afterwards married Eudo la Zouche, who died in Paris in 1326. Their son William inherited this Totternhoe estate from his mother, and in 1352 from William la Zouche, his paternal grandfather, he inherited the larger manor of Totternhoe. From this date the two properties have been amalgamated and held as one manor. William de Watford held lands in Totternhoe from which he owed knight service in 1346. The same property was held by Giles de Watford in 1428, and his descendants remained in Totternhoe during the next century.
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