LORDS OF THE MANOR OF WINGFIELD*

Compiled by Jocelyn Wingfield, WFS Historian

 

1042 - 1087

Bishop of Thetford; 4 freemen including Ailmar.

1087 - 1275

 Walter,  son of Grip, Robert de Glanville and Loernic from Robert Malet’s mother, Bishop of Thetford; Abbot of Ely & Roger Bigod,  Robert de Wingfield “6 generations before M. de la Pole, 1384,” [Vis. Norfolk, 1563, 1589, 1613, p.312]. (Bigods until 1306).

1276 - ?

 Prior of Thetford, Richard de Brews and Geoffrey Frombauld, then William Frombald Flemings.
1276 -pre- 1307

Sir John de Wingfield I, husband of Anne nee Peche.
Pre - 1307-pre- 1326

Sir John de Wingfield II, husband of Elizabeth Honypott.

1326 - 1362

 Sir John de Wingfield III (Chief of Staff of the Black Prince), through Sir John Wingfield III’s wife, Eleanor daughter of Sir Gilbert de Glanville, Earl of Suffolk.
1362 - 1388

Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk (husband of Katherine nee Wingfield).

1389 - 1397

 The Crown (King Richard II).

1397 - 1415

 Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.

Sep - Oct 1415

 Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk.

1415 - 1450

 William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, K.G.
1450 - 1487 John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, K.G. (m. sister of Edward IV & Richard III).

1487 - 1495

 The Crown (King Henry VII).

1495 - 1504

 Edmund de la Pole, 4th Earl of Suffolk.

1504 - 1509

 The Crown (King Henry VII).

1509 - 1538

 The Crown (King Henry VIII).

1538 - 1544

 Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk (grandson of Elizabeth Wingfield).

1544 - 1571

 Sir Henry & Lady Jerningham.

1571 - 1619

 Henry Jerningham, Esquire.

1619 - c.1625

 Thomas Jones, Esquire & Robert Leman, Esquire.
c.1625 - 1636 Thomas Catelyn, Esquire

1636 - 1660s

 Richard Catelyn.

1660s - 1702

 Sir Neville Catelyn.

1702 - 1735

 Sir Charles Turner, Baronet.

1735 - 1758

 Philippa Leman.

1758 - 1779

 Robert Leman, Doctor of Divinity.

1779 - 1796

 Henry W. Wilson, Esquire.

1796 - 1838

 Robert Wilson, 9th Baron Berners.

1838 - 1851

 The Reverend Henry Wilson, 10th Baron Berners.

1851 - 1856

 Henry W. Wilson, 11th Baron Berners.

1856 - 1886

 Sir Robert Shafto Adair, 2nd Baronet.

1886 - 1902

 Sir Hugh Adair 3rd Baronet.

1902 - 1915

 Sir Frederick Adair, 4th Baronet, High  Sheriff  of Suffolk.

1915 - 1949

 Sir Robert Adair, 5th Baronet.

1949 - ?

 Sir Alan Adair, 6th Baronet.

? - 1989

 Lady Darrell.

1989 - 1991

 Vance Gray Wingfield.

Apr - May 1991

 Wilsie Wingfield Carr.

1991 - 1994

 Robert Warren Wingfield.

1994 - 1997

 Dale Wingfield Ruf.

1997 - 2000

 Vance Gray Wingfield.

2000 - 2003

 Robert Eugene Carr, husband of Wilsie Wingfield Carr.

2003 - 2006

 Le Bron Camp Preston (in right of his late wife, Charline Harmon Preston).
2006 - 2009 Charles "Billy" Wingfield
2009 - 2011 Wingfield Hughes

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*The 3rd  &  4th Wingfield Manors, of Esham and of Chickering, were merged with the Main and Old  Hall Manors in the 1330s. [Sources: Domesday; Copinger’s Manors of Suffolk, IV, p.108; Aldwell,  Wingfield, Its Church, Castle & College, pp. 2-4, 1925; p. 116, 1994; L&D, WFS, pp. 60-61].