Market Weighton

==The Manor of Weighton==

==The Manor of Weighton==

The history of the manor is extraordinarily complex because the Crown was long reluctant to treat grants of it as freehold. The first beneficiary was the northern baron Geoffrey fitz Pain, who was holding it when King Henry I died in 1135. He held it till 1163 when on his death it was taken back into the king's hand and entrusted to the sheriff of York who accounted for it at the exchequer. In 1177 [[Hugh de Puiset|Hugh du Puiset, bishop of Durham]], secured possession of the ''regium manerium de Wicthtun'' from [[Henry II of England|King Henry II]] to enhance the estate of the bishop's son Henry. Henry du Puiset held it uncontested until 1204, when the several heirs of Geoffrey fitz Pain of the Trussebut family began a series of lawsuits to recover it as if Geoffrey had held it in fee of the king, which it is unlikely that he did. Nonetheless by 1219 several heirs had secured shares.As explained by Prof. Nicholas Vincent, ''Letters & Charters of Henry II'' (6 vols, Oxford UP, 2020), 4, no. 2106, 5 n. 2690a Until the 14th century Weighton manor was in two halves, one half further divided into a third share and a two-third share. The senior half-share was awarded to the eldest daughter of William Trussebut, Rohese, who had married the Yorkshire baron Everard de Ros. It stayed in the baronial family of Ros, lords of Helmsley, into the 14th century, when it was reunited with the other shares, which had been allotted to the Fitz Herbert and Daubigny families. Agnes daughter of Robert (III) de Ros married Payn de Tibetot and the manor eventually came to Thomas Broomfleet, Lord Vesci, from whom it passed to the Lords Clifford, who held it with their manor of [[Londesborough]] and the two manors followed the same succession until the modern period.

The history of the manor is extraordinarily complex because the Crown was long reluctant to treat grants of it as freehold. The first beneficiary was the northern baron Geoffrey fitz Pain, who was holding it when King Henry I died in 1135. He held it till 1163 when on his death it was taken back into the king's hand and entrusted to the sheriff of York who accounted for it at the exchequer. In 1177 [[Hugh de Puiset|Hugh du Puiset, bishop of Durham]], secured possession of the ''regium manerium de Wicthtun'' from [[Henry II of England|King Henry II]] to enhance the estate of the bishop's son Henry. Henry du Puiset held it uncontested until 1204, when the several heirs of Geoffrey fitz Pain of the Trussebut family began a series of lawsuits to recover it as if Geoffrey had held it in fee of the king, which it is unlikely that he did. Nonetheless by 1219 several heirs had secured shares.As explained by Prof. Nicholas Vincent, ''Letters & Charters of Henry II'' (6 vols, Oxford UP, 2020), 4, no. 2106, 5 n. 2690a Until the 14th century Weighton manor was in two halves, one half initially further divided into a third share and a two-third share, each in 1276 owing the service of a single knight's fee. The senior half-share (which included a soke court) was awarded to the eldest daughter of William Trussebut, Rohese, or rather to her son, Robert II de Ros, lord of Helmsley.See ''Rotuli Hundredorum'', ed. W. Illingworth (Record Commission, 1812) i, 104. It stayed in the baronial family of Ros, lords of Helmsley, into the 14th century, when it was reunited with the other shares, which had been allotted to the Fitz Herbert and Daubigny families. Agnes daughter of Robert (III) de Ros married Payn de Tibetot and the manor eventually came to Thomas Broomfleet, Lord Vesci, from whom it passed to the Lords Clifford, who held it with their manor of [[Londesborough]] and the two manors followed the same succession until the modern period.

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