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Grafton Manor (13 miles north-east of Worcester and 2 1/2 miles south-west of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) was established before the Norman Conquest. [1] Grafton means "settlement at or near the wood" and may indicate a role in woodland management within a larger estate, for instance.
It dates back beyond 1542, in the reign of Henry VIII when a bill for its management is known before parliament. [1]As with all honours there were exclusions for church lands (such as glebe), waste, land freed of the manor (freeholds) who nonetheless paid tithes to the rectories, many of which belonged to the honour, among which some lesser manors of parishes.
Sir John Talbot of Grafton, Worcestershire (1545 – 28 January 1611 [1]) was a prominent recusant English Catholic layman of the reigns of Elizabeth I of England and James I of England. He was connected by marriage to one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, and by acquaintance or family ties to other important Catholic figures.
Sir Humphrey Stafford (c. 1427 – 8 July 1486) of Grafton Manor in Worcestershire, was an English nobleman who took part in the War of the Roses on the Yorkist side. He was executed by Henry VII following his fighting for Richard III and his role in the Stafford and Lovell rebellion.
Elizabeth (died 1490) who married firstly Thomas Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Masham, and secondly, Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG (died 1517/18). Her second husband was the lord of the manor of Grafton Manor in Worcestershire. Sir Robert Greystoke (c. 1443-1483), who married Elizabeth Grey, daughter of Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent.
Dodford Priory: Dodford, Dodford with Grafton, Bromsgrove: Farmhouse: Early 17th century: 23 April 1952: 1100095: Upload Photo: Grafton Manor and Chapel Adjoining to South West : Dodford with Grafton, Bromsgrove
Grafton Regis is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, on the border with Buckinghamshire. The village is east of the A508 road , on which it has a short frontage and two bus stops, and is around 8 miles (13 km) south of Northampton and 9 miles (14 km) north of Milton Keynes .
Sir Gilbert Talbot of Grafton, KG (1452 – 16 August 1517 or 19 September 1518), was an English Tudor knight, and younger son of John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and 2nd Earl of Waterford, and Elizabeth Butler.