07 Oct Lordship Title of Westcourt or Shalbourne Dormer ID14301
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Another Wiltshire manor, consisting of a hide and 3 virgates, was held of King Edward the Confessor by a thegn and in 1086 was in the hands of Hugh Lasne. This manor with other of Hugh's estates passed to Robert de Ewyas of Ewyas Harold, whose only daughter and heiress Sybil married Robert de Tregoz. Her son Robert succeeded to his mother's estates in 1236 and was holding the overlordship of this manor in the 13th century. The manor was still held of the barony of Ewyas in 1428, but some rights of overlordship had passed before 1275 to Roger de Chandos, lord of Snodhill, of which barony it was still held in 1413. In 1411–12 it was said to be held of Humphrey son and heir of Edmund late Earl of Stafford as of his manor of Wexcombe (co. Wilts.), and in 1413–14 it was held by Sir John Chandos during the minority of the heir of Edmund. In 1501 it is again returned as held of the manor of Wexcombe.
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