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LORDS OF THE MANOR OF LIDGATE
  1. Edward SAXON Stori held Lidgate as Manor in King Edward's time
    Harold 11 Norman.
    1066 WILLIAM DE VATTEVILLE (listed among William the Conquerors knights) (tenant in chief)
    William 1 & RAINALD THE BRETON (claimed as alms of King)
    1087 RALPH William11 (held in fee to Abbot of St. Edmunds by service of Diaper /Steward)
    1110 REGINALD DE SCANCLER gives Lidgate into care of Bury Abbey on departure for Crusades
    1115 MAURICE DE WINDSOR
    Henry 1 (granted to him by Abbot Albold; confirmed by King Stephen. Had extensive properties in other counties)
    1130 gave to Norwich Cathedral a chapel of St. Edmund with lands at Hoxne there to be a convent of monks to pray for the soul of Ralph the Dapifer)
    HENRY DE HASTINGS (Steward to King Henry 1 and claimed to be hereditary steward of the Liberty of St. Edmund)
    1138 - 1153 Civil War between King Stephen and the Empress Maude
    ✤1154 RALPH DE HASTINGS
    Henry 11 (Nephew of Maurice de Windsor. The Queen's Dapifer)

    Later charter granted to:
    WILLIAM DE HASTINGS:. Margery, daughter of Roger Bigot , Earl of Norfolk, daughter of Henry, Earl of Eu.
    (Nephew of Maurice de Windsor and Ralph de Hastings. Confirmed stewardship of St. Edmunds. Held five knights fees, including Lidgate and Blunham)
    1188 HENRY DE HASTINGS
    Richard 1 (As a minor, office filled by Robert de Flamaville, one of the wardens of the Abbey. Henry accompanied King Richard to the Holy Land and died without issue), devolves to brother
    1196 WILLIAM DE HASTINGS
    John (Ancestor of the Earls of Pembroke, paid 100 marks as his relief for the lands and office of his brother Henry. A peer in Parliament held at Lincoln (1199) wherein William of Scotland did homage to the English monarch. Evidence of presence at Runneymede for Magna Carta.
    1225 HENRY DE HASTINGS
    Henry 111: (Fourth daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon and of Maud his wife, daughter of Hugh and one of the sisters and coheirs of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. Attended King in France. Taken prisoner at Zante, but released. The manor passed in the same course as the Manor of Overhall, in Otley, in Calford hundred.
    1250 HENRY HASTINGS, 1st Lord: Joan (daughter of William de Cantilupe, sister and co-heir of George de Cantilupe, Baron of Bergavenny) Inherited as a minor under wardship of Guy de Lusingnan, Henry 111's half-brother. From Fine Rolls, King committed the manor to Stephen de Spineto and Justo Guidon. Supported Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester against the King. Manor for a time under Gilbert de Clare. Distinguished at Battle of Lewes when King was made prisoner and knighted. Governor of Scarborough and Winchester Castles. 1263 reported to have attacked the castle of New Buckenham in Norfolk 1265 made governor of Kenilworth castle, which he defended after defeat at Evesham. Surrendered castle on honourable terms.


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