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caput (head) of the honour, with a castle that gave its name to the honour and served as its administrative headquarters. The term honour is particularly...

part of the newly created Honour of Ewelme. Recipients of the Honour of Wallingford include Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, who was given it together...

Duchy of Cornwall in 1540. He combined it with the Honour of Ewelme, which included the rights over his existing residence and lands at Ewelme. Ewelme is...

parliaments of Great Britain or of Ireland). For acts passed up until 1707, see the list of acts of the Parliament of England and the list of acts of the Parliament...

house at Ewelme in Oxfordshire where she greeted visitors. She outlived her husband for a number of years and dwelled at Ewelme as the mistress of the house...

in The Statutes of the Realm. This is the citation in The Statutes at Large. An honour was a landholding as a feudal barony. Honour of Wallingford. Giles...

(date of licence), to (as her third husband) Alice Chaucer (1404–1475), daughter of Thomas Chaucer of Ewelme, Oxfordshire, and granddaughter of the poet...

the 16th century, when the Wallingford estates became part of the Honour of Ewelme. After the Norman conquest, Shabbington Manor represented two knight's...

his father, King George III. It is named in honour of two military saints, Michael and George. The Order of St Michael and St George was originally awarded...

Book of 1086 or in 12th-century records. In 1225 the manor was one fee of the Honour of Wallingford. In 1540 this was merged with the Honour of Ewelme in...

Duke of Normandy, thus making Aston part of the Honour of Wallingford. Aston later became part of the Honour of Ewelme. It later was the seat of the de...

in Ewelme. This was followed by a number of other offices and promotions, none of which were lucrative. In 1472 he was appointed High Steward of Oxford...

part of the Honour of Ewelme. Early in the 19th century Adwell manor was inherited by John H Birch, who took the name Newell Birch as a condition of the...

Earls of Devon until at least 1375. By 1376 it was effectively part of the Honour of Wallingford, which in 1540 became part of the Honour of Ewelme. Crowell...

estates, became part of the Honour of St Valery, and then passed to the Honour of Wallingford and from 1540 the Honour of Ewelme. Three Oxford University...

former Wallingford manors became part of the Duke of Suffolk's Honour of Ewelme. The Audley family became tenants of the manor by marriage in 1244 and built...

years, Jerome spent more time at his farmhouse Gould's Grove south-east of Ewelme near Wallingford. Jerome suffered a paralytic stroke and a cerebral haemorrhage...

Griffin William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond Seamus Heaney John Hemming Alan Hollinghurst Michael Jay, Baron Jay of Ewelme Dame Frances Kirwan Donald Knuth...

one of the executors of the will of the Duchess of York, and was by then very wealthy. Thomas Chaucer died at Ewelme Palace in the village of Ewelme, Oxfordshire...

Grants of Honour (Edinburgh: T.C. & E.C. Jack, 1904), 83-84 Morris, Susan; Bosberry-Scott, Wendy; Belfield, Gervase, eds. (2019). "Macclesfield, Earl of"....