Wroxall Manor (also Warochesselle, Wrockeshal, Wroxhale) was a manor house on the
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (Help:IPA/English, /waɪt/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''WYTE'') is an island off the south coast of England which, together with its surrounding uninhabited islets and Skerry, skerries, is also a ceremonial county. T ...
, situated in the
Newchurch parish.
History
It was held before the Conquest by Countess Gytha (Gueda) of her husband Earl Godwin as a free manor, and at the time of the
Domesday Book
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was in the king's hands, being one of the most valuable holdings in the Island. It belonged to the lords of the Island, and passed on the death of
Isabel de Fortibus in 1293 to
Edward I
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, who leased it in 1304–5 for life to Matthew son of John.
Matthew died about 1308 and in 1309 the manor was granted by
Edward II
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to
Piers de Gaveston and his wife Margaret, the king's niece, on whom the lordship of the Island had been conferred, but in the same year they restored it to the king. The manor was evidently granted with the lordship of the Island to Edward, Earl of Chester, and was given in 1355 to the Princess Isabel for life. It remained a Crown possession until 1624, when
James I James I may refer to:
People
*James I of Aragon (1208–1276)
* James I of Sicily or James II of Aragon (1267–1327)
* James I, Count of La Marche (1319–1362), Count of Ponthieu
* James I, Count of Urgell (1321–1347)
*James I of Cyprus (1334†...
granted it with
Apse Manor
Apse Manor is a manor house on the Isle of Wight, situated just within the eastern boundary of the Newchurch parish. The house is pleasantly situated just to the north of the high road from Shanklin and as of 1912 retained a room with a stone ...
and
Bleakdown Manor to Edward Ramsey. He sold it in the same year to Richard Baskett, who held the manor courts from 1627 to 1634.
At the end of the century it was in the hands of the Hopson family. It afterwards came to
Thomas Cotele, and passed from him with Niton to
Lord Mount Edgcumbe, who owned it in 1771, when it was divided into North and South Wroxall; the former, comprising Winford, Queen Bower, Borthwood and Hill Farms, was sold in different lots in 1787.
The latter, including Wroxall Farm and Hide Place, also put up for sale in 1787, was bought in for
Lord Mount Edgcumbe. (The whole has since been split up and is now in the hands of numerous owners.
In the reign of Henry II, Richard Earl of Devon bequeathed to the monks of
Quarr Abbey
Quarr Abbey (French language, French: ''Abbaye Notre-Dame de Quarr'') is a monastery between the villages of Binstead and Fishbourne, Isle of Wight, Fishbourne on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The name is pronounced as "Kwor" (r ...
twenty solidates of land in his manor of Wroxall. The land was confirmed to the abbey by Isabel de Fortibus and her grant was confirmed by the king in 1333.
Nothing further is known about the holding.
References
''This article includes text incorporated from William Page's "A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5 (1912)", a publication now in the public domain''
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Country houses on the Isle of Wight
Manor houses in England