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Spridleston
Spridleston (modern: Spriddlestone) is an historic manor in the parish of Brixton in Devon, England, long a seat of a branch of the prominent and widespread Fortescue family. The ancient manor house does not survive, but it is believed to have occupied the site of the present ''Spriddlestone Barton'', a small Georgian stuccoed house a few hundred yards from the larger ''Spriddlestone House'', also a Georgian stuccoed house, both centred on the hamlet of ''Spriddlestone'' and near ''Higher Spriddlestone Farm''. Descent Anglo-Saxons Before the Norman Conquest of 1066 the manor was held by four thanes, who held it "freely (and jointly)", as the Domesday Book records: ''Quattuor taini libe(re) teneb(ant) T(empore) R(egis) E(duardi)''. Domesday Book ''Spredelestone'' is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the 52nd of the 79 Devonshire holdings of Robert, Count of Mortain, Earl of Cornwall, (–1090) a Norman nobleman and the uterine half-brother of King William the Conqueror a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fortescue (Captain Of Meaux)
John Fortescue (died after 1432), of Shepham Pole, Sir William (died 1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon', Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, pp. 300-301. in the parish of Modbury in Devon, was an English landowner and administrator. He is said in most ancient sources to have been appointed in 1422 by King Henry V as Captain of the captured Castle of Meaux, Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) ''The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620''. Exeter, 1895, pp.352–3. north-east of Paris, following the Siege of Meaux during the Hundred Years' War, although this appointment is questioned by Ives (2005). Origins He was born in the 1370s, the second son of William Fortescue (died after 1406), of Whympston in the parish of Modbury in Devon (the earliest recorded English seat of the Fortescue family) by his wife Elizabeth Beauchamp, widow of Richard Branscombe and a daughter of Sir John Beauchamp o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
