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Coleshill Manor then passed to this branch of Sir Simon de Montford who moated the manor houses at Coleshill and Kingshurst. King Henry VII granted Coleshill Manor and its lands to Simon Digby in 1496 following the execution and forfeiture of Sir Simon de Montford for supporting the rebellion of Perkin Warbeck. The (Wingfield-Digby) family ...
Sir Simon Montford (died c. 30 January 1495 [1]) was an English Lord of several manors who was executed for treason. [2]Simon Montford was the son and heir of Sir Baldwin Montfort, Knt, of Coleshill Manor, Warwickshire (1410 – c. 1458) by his spouse Joan, daughter of Sir Richard Vernon, Speaker of the House of Commons.
Historians have been left stunned by the ancient discovery near Coleshill on the outskirts of Birmingham. Perfectly preserved 16th-century manor gardens uncovered by HS2 Skip to main content
Sir Robert Digby PC(I) (1574 – 24 May 1618) was an English courtier who owned an estate at Coleshill, Warwickshire. His marriage to Lettice FitzGerald, heir-general to the 11th Earl of Kildare, led him to spend his life litigating over her claims to the Kildare lands. He divided his time between local business in Warwickshire and in Ireland.
Simon Digby (died 1519 [1] [2]) was lord of Coleshill, in Warwickshire, England. He was the second son of Sir Everard Digby, Lord of Tilton and Drystoke in the County of Rutland. [1] Sir Everard and four of his sons were killed at the 1461 Battle of Towton, [1] a part of the Wars of the Roses.
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Coleshill House was a double-pile building, influenced by Jones's Queens House in Greenwich, and combining Italian, French, Dutch and English architectural ideas. It measured approximately 120 by 60 feet (37 m × 18 m), with two main floors of nine bays, above a rusticated basement, and an attic with seven prominent dormer windows and four tall ...
The family was descended from Sir John Mountford, the illegitimate son of Peter Mountford (d. 1369), third lord of the manor of Beaudesert, Warwickshire by his mistress Lauren Ullenhall. (No barony "of Beaudesert" existed until 1550, when the "Barony of Paget de Beaudesert, County Stafford" was created for the Paget family. [ 4 ] )