| History | The manor of Barlborough was given to Burton Abbey by the will of Wulfric Spott in1002, but it reverted to lay hands before 1066. At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086 Barlborough belonged to Ralph Fitzhubert, being held by Robert. The manorial history of Barlborough is complex, with several divisions into moieties. The overlordship remained with the descendants of Ralph Fitzhubert, passing to the Stuteville family in the early 13th century. In the mid-14th century the Darcy family had the overlordship, which had passed to the Strangeways family by the 16th century.
The underlordship passed to the Menill family, who may have the descendants of the Robert who held it at the time of the Domesday survey. By 1244 the underlordship was divided equally between Matthew de Hathersage and Adam de Cridling. The Hathersage manor was later divided but reunited as what became known as the Park Hall estate; the Cridling manor became what was known as the Barlborough Hall estate.
The half manor held by Hathersage was divided between his co-heirs, who married into the Goushill and Longford families. The Goushill moiety remained with that family until 1498, when it was shared between the Stanley (earls of Derby) and Wingfield families. The Stanley portion was sold to the Crown in 1546, who granted it to the Stanhope family. In 1561 Sir Thomas Stanhope had licence to sell it to Sir Richard Pipe. Pipe already held the Longford moiety, which had remained with the Longford family until 1536, when it was mortgaged to Sir William Holles, whose son, Sir Thomas Holles, sold it to Pipe in 1542. In the 1590s Pipe’s son, Humphrey would claim to be sole lord of the manor against Sir John Rodes of Barlborough Hall. Humphrey Pipe’s estate later passed to a branch of the Pole family before the mid-17th century. The Wingfield portion remained with the family of that name until purchased by George Foljambe in the 1540s. After 1592 it was shared by co-heirs. One share belonged to Joan, wife of Godfrey Foljambe alias Brownlowe, but was mortgaged in 1609 to Peter Columbell, who sold it to Sir Peter Frescheville in 1621. The other share belonged to Katherine, wife of Henry Leake, but came into the possession of Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, in 1602, before being sold by her descendants in 1628 to Sir Peter Frescheville, re-uniting the Wingfield portion. In 1665, John, Lord Frescheville, sold the portion to John and Francis Pole, uniting the half manor. It then remained with the Pole family until 1755, when it passed by will to the Pole family of Radbourne, later the Chandos-Pole family, with which it stayed until at least 1895. The Park Hall estate was broken up after the Second World War.
The other half manor remained with the Cridling family until sold in 1289 to Sir William de Fauconberg. In 1340 Henry de Fauconberg sold it to Thomas, son of Alan Redness. In 1370 it was shared between William Constable and John Redness, who sold his share to William in 1378. It largely remained with the Constable family until 1527, when sold to Stephen Hatfield. In the 1530s it passed to William and John Selioke, and in the early 1570s it was sold by George Selioke to John Rodes. It remained with the Rodes family until the death of C.H.R. Rodes with male heir in1844, when it was left to his wife’s nephew, William Hatfield Glossip, who changed his name to Rodes. It then passed to his daughter Sophia Felicité (married to G.L.T. Locker-Lampson in 1905), on whose death it passed to her eldest daughter Felicité (married to Henry E. Remington-Wilson in 1928). |