Royal Lordship & Ladyship of High Easter
Price £7,500 Now £4,000
Brief Description:
The name ‘High Easter’ refers not to the Christian festival ‘Easter’, but to the 11th-century Estre (in the Domesday book as Estra), from the Old English eowestre meaning a sheep fold, or ‘a place at the sheep fold’.
Before the Norman Conquest, High Easter belonged to Ely Abbey, but it passed to an Anglo-Saxon landowner known as Asgar the Staller until, like many of Asgar’s lands, it was granted after the Conquest to the Norman Geoffrey de Mandeville.
Family Names:
Following family names once held the Title:
- Mandeville
- Fitz-Piers
- Bohun
- Stafford
Held by Royalty:
Once held by:
- Queen Victoria
