The Charnwood Manors
CHARNWOOD FOREST THE CHARNWOOD MANORS BY GEORGE F. FARNHAM, F.S.A. THE CHARNWOOD MANORS BY GEORGE F. FARNHAM, M.A., F.S.A. In his History of Charnwood Forest, Potter gives the medieval descent of the four manors of Barrow, Groby, Whitwick and Shepshed in the portion assigned to the "parochial history of Charnwood ". In this part of his work Potter has trusted almost entirely to Nichols, and has done very little research work from original documents. The result is rather unsatisfactory, for while the manorial descents are in the main correct, the details are in many instances extremely inaccurate. In order to illustrate my meaning I will select a few paragraphs from his history of Barrow on page 59. Potter writes " that in 1375, Sir Giles de Erdington, knight, died seised of the manor of Barrow, leaving a son and heir, Sir Thomas de Erdington, kt., who (probably from the proximity of Barrow to Segrave) formed a matrimonial alliance with Margaret, daughter of Thomas de Brotherton, earl of Norfolk. This lady had before been twice married; first to Sir Walter Manny, and secondly to John, lord Segrave, who, dying in 1355, left her a widow with an only daughter. In 1404, it was found (by inquisition) that Margaret, then duchess of Norfolk, widow of Sir Thomas de Erdington, died seised of the Barrow manor. Her son, Thomas Erdington, then succeeded to his father's moiety of the manor; and, on the death of his relation Raymond de Sully, to the other portion too." These extracts, copied by Potter from Nichol's History, iii, p.
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