Hoxne Hundred · Suffolk · England
Held continuously since 1066 · Acquired into private ownership, 22 May 2024
The Manor of Stradbroke with Stubcroft has been held by approximately fifty lords across nine centuries. It is a living institution.
A nine-century institution
From its first appearance in the Domesday Book of 1086 to the present day, the Manor of Stradbroke with Stubcroft has been an unbroken thread through the history of a Suffolk village and the wider story of England.
From Edric of Laxfield, the greatest Anglo-Saxon thegn of eastern Suffolk, to the de la Pole dukes of Suffolk, the Cornwallis marquesses, and the Kerrison baronets — nine centuries of named lords and primary source documentation.
The court baron and leet records at Suffolk Archives and the Norfolk Record Office document the lives of copyhold tenants, freeholders, and parishioners across three centuries of manorial administration.
The manor was acquired into private ownership in May 2024. A comprehensive primary-source history of the manor from Domesday to the present is currently in preparation.
Little Domesday · Suffolk · 1086
Stradbroke. Edric held this in the time of King Edward. Five and a half carucates of land. Woodland for four hundred pigs. Two churches. Annual value: sixteen pounds.
Suffolk §6.308 · Robert Malet, tenant-in-chief · Edric of Laxfield, predecessor lord
The title chain
A selection of the lords of the manor, confirmed by primary archival sources at The National Archives, Suffolk Archives, and the Norfolk Record Office.