The Manor House, Mansfield

Mansfield

By David Reid

The Royal Manor of Mansfield was held by the King. In 1042 Edward the Confessor possessed a manor in Mansfield. William the Conqueror later owned two carucates, five sochmans, and thirty-five villains; twenty borders, with nineteen carucates and a half in demesne, a mill, piscary, twenty-four acres of meadow and pasture' in Mansfield. In 1199 the Manor was owned by King John. The Manor then owned by King Henry III passed the Manor to Henry de Hastings. In 1329 Queen Isabella, mother of Edward III, was the Lady of the Manor of Mansfield.

In 1516 during the reign of King Henry VIII an act of parliament settled the Manor to Thomas the Duke of Norfolk. The Manor was then passed to the Dukes of Newcastle and Portland.

Reference

Horner Groves W, 'The History of Mansfield' (1894)