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A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor in Europe. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets.
The Vernon family acquired the Manor of Haddon by a 12th-century marriage between Sir Richard de Vernon and Alice Avenell, daughter of William Avenell II. Four centuries later, in 1563, Dorothy Vernon , the daughter and heiress of Sir George Vernon , married John Manners, the second son of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland .
Lord Denning, in Corpus Christi College Oxford v Gloucestershire County Council [1983] QB 360, described the manor thus: In medieval times the manor was the nucleus of English rural life. It was an administrative unit of an extensive area of land. The whole of it was owned originally by the lord of the manor.
The manor on which the castle was situated was termed the caput of the barony, thus every true ancient defensive castle was also the manor house of its own manor. The suffix "-Castle" was also used to name certain manor houses, generally built as mock castles, but often as houses rebuilt on the site of a former true castle:
In the generic plan of a medieval manor [16] from Shepherd's Historical Atlas, [17] the strips of individually worked land in the open field system are immediately apparent. In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, formerly walled, while the ...
As landowners, the Calverleys were frequently called to military service. Sir William Calverley (died 1506) was summononed to fight Perkin Warbeck 's army in Cornwall in September 1497. [ 4 ] Walter Calverley (1483-1536) was knighted at Lille in October 1513 following the battle of the Spurs . [ 5 ]
Each tenant of the manor cultivated several strips of land scattered around the manor. The village of Elton, Cambridgeshire, is representative of a medieval open-field manor in England. The manor, whose Lord was an abbot from a nearby monastery, had 13 "hides" of arable land of six virgates each. The acreage of a hide and virgate varied; but at ...
In 1470, the manor was attacked by Sir Robert Welles over a clash about lands, status, and honour, but it was not severely damaged. In 1484 Thomas entertained King Richard III in his hall. [ 2 ] Henry VII intended to raise Thomas to the pre-eminence of a Barony, but no second writ was issued, nor was a patent.