notes on Ickworth

Suffolk and Norfolk

At Domesday the manor was held by the Abbot of St edmund’s and listed as having a Church and Mill.

Thomas de Ickworth, was granted land here by Henry III in 1254. Prior this this it would appear that like much of the land in West Suffolk it was still under the control of the Abbey of St Edmund.

Ickworth was inherited by a number of descendents named Thomas. In about 1400 one of these Thomas de Ickworth married Agnes Tamworth daughter of John Tamworth, they had a son Ralph de Ickworth born in 1405.

Thomas died leaving the estate in trust to his son Agnes having the use of the estate until her death. Agnes when on to marry the local rector of Horringer (Nicholas Hethe or Heath) He took up the post in 1393 and married in about 1394/95 it is believed he would have had to give up this living to wed. he died a few years later in 1409.

Agnes then married Edmund Fitz Lucas of Weststow. Agnes died in 1437; Lucas did not die until 1452. Ralph de Ickworth died prior to Agnes.

In 1473 Ickworth was awarded to William Drury after a legal dispute.

William Drury born 1400 (died 1471) in Rougham, Suffolk was made a Knight of the Bath on May 19, 1426. On Feb 28, 1446, he witnessed the Charter of Richard of York at Bury St. Edmund's.

He married Katherine Swynford, who was step first cousin of King Henry IV and a blood relative to the Stewart Kings of Scotland and the future Tudor Kings and Queens, through her grandmother Katherine de Roet Swynford, who married John of Gaunt, son of Edward III and father of Henry IV.

Jane Drury daughter of Henry Drury was sole heir. Her first husband was Thomas Hervey by which they produced William Harvey (born 1462 died 1538-St Mary's BSE) Simon (died infant) John (died infant about 1475), Mary (Margaret [married Grimstone] and Elizabeth

Secondly she married Sir William Carewe, by whom she had a son Roger who died in infancy in 1479 and a daughter Elizabeth (1472-0 1496) who married John Croft of Little Saxham in Weststow in 1487

William Harvey married Jane Cockett and had sons John (1487-1556) and Nicholas (1490-1538)

Hervey family, later Marquises of Bristol, since 1467

Thomas Hervey (d. 1467)

1428 and 1431

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ICKWORTH ESTATE