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Founded
The Manorial Guild ® was founded on 21st September 2009.
Location Registered Office
The Manorial Guild ® Second Floor, 262, Corporation Road, Newport, Gwent, South Wales, NP19 ODZ
Our Email Address: lord@manorialguild.com
About Us
The Manorial Guild ® exists to promote the study, interest, and knowledge of manorial heritage and manorial history and traditions. The Guild is non-profit making organization.
Membership is open to all. As well as enjoying the privileges and advantages of membership, subscriptions help to further the aims of the Guild.
The Manorial Guild ® has a membership comprising of lords of the manor, feudal barons and earls, as well as historians. Members are mainly from the United Kingdom and Ireland, but also many from other countries.
The Manorial Guild are:
A Worldwide association for lords and ladies, and anyone else, who are honourable and interested in the old fashioned values, manorial heritage and history.
We maintain a The Manorial Register of Feudal Lords and Barons of the Manor.
We organising charity fund raising events, formal banquets and other social events.
The Manorial Guild aims are:
To promote the study of manorial heritage and history.
To organise social events and meetings as desired by the membership.
To promote the manorial system and to support the British Monarchy.
To develop The Manorial Guild ® that members will feel proud to belong to.
To bring together honourable people for the purpose of charity, benevolence and social activities.
Lord of the Manor ® The Lordship of a manor is recognised today in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland as a form of property and one of three elements of a manor that may exist separately or be combined and may be held in moieties.
Tenant in Chief Lordship
Historically a lord of the manor might be a tenant-in-chief if they held a capital manor directly from the Crown.
Mense Lordship
Otherwise they were mesne lords if they did not hold directly from the Crown, yet had their own tenants.
The origins of the Lordship of manors arose in the Anglo-Saxon system of manorialism, following the Norman Conquest. Land at the manorial level was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.
A Manorial Title cannot be subdivided.
This has been prohibited since 1290 in the Statute of Quia Emptores that prevents tenants from alienating their lands to others by subinfeudation, instead requiring all tenants wishing to alienate their land to do so by substitution.
Feudal Baron
Tenure by barony was the higher feudal tenure of a lord who had subordinate knights. Originally, a barony was the land subject to a baron and could, in England after the Norman Conquest, consist of estates scattered throughout the country or in several regions (see, for example, the barony of the Earl of Pembroke, with estates in England, Ireland, and Normandy).
A medieval barony might comprise more than one manor or fief, and the principal manor often had a castle. It is sometimes difficult to be sure whether a particular estate was considered a barony or not, partly because at times the status of a baron was more than a matter of mere tenure. Not to be confused with Baronage.
Manor House
The manor house was the dwelling house, or “capital messuage”, of a feudal lord of a manor, which he occupied only on occasional visits if he held many manors. As such it was the place in which sessions of his “court baron”, or manor court, were held. Sometimes a steward or seneschal was appointed by the seigneurial lord to oversee and manage his different manorial properties. The day-to-day administration was delegated to an official, who in England was called a bailiff, or reeve. The primary feature of the manor house was its great hall, to which subsidiary apartments were added as the lessening of feudal warfare permitted more peaceful domestic life.
Manorial Records
The Manorial Roll or Court Roll is the roll or record kept in connection with a manorial court, in particular containing entries relating to the rents and holdings, deaths, alienation's and successions of the customary tenants or copyholders. A copy of the court roll constitutes the tenant's title to his holding.
Manorialism
An essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practised in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market economy and new forms of agrarian contract,
Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord of the manor, supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under the jurisdiction of himself and his manorial court. These obligations could be payable in several ways, in labour in kind, or, on rare occasions, in coin.
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