| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Manor of Temple Normanton |
| Place | Chesterfield |
| Epithet | Manor |
| History | At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086 Normanton was part of the King’s demesne lands. In the late 12th century it was held by the Knights Templars, from which it took the name of Temple Normanton. It would seem that the Knights used the manor as the administrative centre for their possessions in the north-eastern part of the county. Following the suppression of the Order of the Knights Templars in 1312, it was given to the Knights of St John, also known as the Knights Hospitallers, in 1323. The manor remained with the Knights until the dissolution of the order during the Reformation, when it became the Crown’s property again. In 1563 Queen Elizabeth I granted it to George, Earl of Shrewsbury. It was later purchased from the family by the Leakes. In 1742 the trustees of Nicholas Leake, Earl of Scarsdale, sold the manor to Godfrey Clarke, whose son remained lord until 1786. It passed to William Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormonde, by his marriage to Anna Maria Catherine Clarke in 1805. After her death in 1817, it was subsequently purchased by W.P. Arkwright, who still held it in 1895. In trade directories of 1908 and 1916 William Arkwright is described as its lord.
Geographic Extent
The manor covered a greater area than the small parish of Temple Normanton itself, with lands in Staveley, Duckmanton, Beeley, Denby, Chesterfield and Brampton. |
| Source | Magna Britannia: Volume 5: Derbyshire by Daniel and Samuel Lysons (1817) p. 87
The History, Topography and Directory of Derbyshire by T. Bulmer (1895) pp. 105-106
Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol. 78 (1958), pp. 40-88, “Temple Normanton Court Rolls, 1477-1518” by R.H. Oakley
Kelly’s trade directories, 1908 and 1916 |
| Court rolls (1447-1518) at Derby Local Studies Library |
| Authorised Form of Name | Chesterfield; Manor of Temple Normanton; Manor |
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