Lord of the manor is a title that, in Anglo-Saxon England and Norman England, referred to the landholder of a rural estate. The titles date to the English...
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Manorialism (redirect from Waste of the manor)
sometimes fortified manor house in which the lord of the manor and his dependants lived and administered a rural estate, and a population of labourers or serfs...
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the feudal system, "lord" had a wide, loose and varied meaning. An overlord was a person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or...
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A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal...
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Lord of the manor is a title of a mediaeval land-holder. Lord of the manor may also refer to: Lord of the Manor (film), a 1933 British film The Lord of...
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The Lord of the Manor is a comic opera by the British soldier and playwright John Burgoyne. It was first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre in December 1780...
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Demesne (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
-ˈmiːn/ di-MAYN, -MEEN) or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or...
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Serfdom (redirect from Emancipation of the serfs)
the lord of the manor who owned that land. In return, they were entitled to protection, justice, and the right to cultivate certain fields within the...
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Emptores, the concept of a mesne lordship technically still exists today: the partitioning of the lord of the manor's estate among co-heirs creating the mesne...
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Reeve (England) (redirect from Manor reeve)
the work which the peasants were bound to perform, as an obligation attached to their holding of land in the Manor, for the lord of the manor on the demesne...
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England Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism Manor house, the main residence of the lord of the manor Estate...
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To the Manor Born is a BBC television sitcom that first aired on BBC1 from 1979 to 1981. A special one-off episode was produced in 2007. Starring Penelope...
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Philip Livingston (1686–1749) (category Slave owners from the Thirteen Colonies)
colonial New York. The son of Robert Livingston the Elder and elder brother of Robert of Clermont, Philip was the second lord of Livingston Manor. Philip Livingston...
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Manorial court (redirect from Manor court)
subject matter and geography. They dealt with matters over which the lord of the manor had jurisdiction, primarily torts, local contracts and land tenure...
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Villein (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
class of serf tied to the land under the feudal system. As part of the contract with the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their...
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Feudalism (redirect from The Feudal System)
"counsel", so that if the lord faced a major decision he would summon all his vassals and hold a council. At the level of the manor this might be a fairly...
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Solihull (redirect from County Borough of Solihull)
to the Lord of the Manor. By the time of Edward I, Ulverlie was sub-infeudated into the newly created Manor of Solihull, and became known as the 'Old...
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Open-field system (category History of agriculture)
among the residents of the manor. The Lord of the Manor, his officials, and a manorial court administered the manor and exercised jurisdiction over the peasantry...
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legal owner of the manor land remained the mesne lord, who was legally the copyholder, according to the titles and customs written down in the manorial roll...
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Wimbledon manor house; the residence of the lord of the manor, was an English country house at Wimbledon, Surrey, now part of Greater London. The manor house...
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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...
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Esquire (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
in the service of a king or nobleman. a landed proprietor or country squire: the lord of the manor, e.g., Richard Bethell Esquire. By the end of the 16th...
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The Lord of the Manor is a former pub and road junction near Cliffsend on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. Two main roads, the A299 and A256 meet here and...
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Heerlijkheid (category Former subdivisions of the Netherlands)
today in 'lord of the manor' titles. What remains of the heerlijkheid system are many of the manors and castles. Most of them are now parts of estates,...
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Château (redirect from Chateaux (castles) of France)
[ʃɑto]; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without...
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John Winthrop (redirect from John Winthrop the Elder)
family. He trained in the law and became Lord of the Manor at Groton in Suffolk, England. He was not involved in founding the Massachusetts Bay Company...
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Squire (redirect from The Armour-Bearer)
village leader or a lord of the manor might come to be known as a "squire", and still later, the term was applied to members of the landed gentry. In contemporary...
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Advowson (category History of the Church of England)
mainly first held by the lord of the principal manor. Many small parishes only had one manor of the same name. The creation of an advowson was a secondary...
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represents the territorial designation of any peerage. "Edinburgh" represents any territorial designation in Scotland. "Birmingham" represents any manor in England...
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