46 THE MANORS OF KIRK LANGLEY AND MEYNELL LANGLEY. 



granted to Robert de Maisnell, or one of his ancestors, and 

 formed a part of those five Knights' fees above-mentioned, and 

 that it afterwards became the property of a younger son, who was 

 the ancestor of the Meynells of Meynell Langley. Dugdale, in 

 his Warwickshire, p. 798, says that Philippa Savage was the wife 

 of Hugh de Meinell, of Langley Meynell, in Derbyshire, where 

 their chief seat was ; and this refers to the time of Edward I., for 

 he died in the 13th year of that king's reign. 



Thus far we have traced the manor of Meynell Langley in the 

 possession of the Meynells from Henry I.'s time, 1108. In the 

 year 1268, Sir William Meynell, of Langley, was a great benefactor 

 to the religious house at Yeaveley.* In 1285, Lord Hugh de 

 Meynell resided at Langley, according to Dugdale, page 798, and 

 his son William resided here, and died 7 Edward II., 1314 ;t his 

 son, Hugh de Meinel, was a Baron of Parliament, 1 Edward III., 

 and Barnes says that he was with Edward III. at the battle of 

 Cressy, and that Lord Hugh de Meinel and several other nobles 

 were taken prisoners at Mants.J The next in succession was 

 Richard Meynell ; he died 33 Edward III., and, from the 

 authority of Barnes, was at the battle of Poictiers. In this king's 

 reign there were two gallant esquires of England slain, Richard 

 Meynell and William Muswell ; he might be son of the former. 

 The next possessor was Ralf de Meynil ; he died 10 Richard II., 

 1376. Ralf de Meynil left four daughters: — Joan, who was 

 married (1) to John Staunton, of Staunton Harold, (2) to Sir 

 Thomas Clinton Knt. ; Elizabeth, to William Crawshaw ; 

 Margaret, to John Dethick, of Newhall ; and Thomasine, to 

 Reginald Dethick. § Sir John Dethick, in right of his wife, 

 about 1458, became possessed of Meynell Langley, but he died 

 without issue male, and his estate at Meynell Langley devolved 

 upon his only daughter, Margaret, who married Ralf Bassett, of 

 Blore. William Bassett, his son, married Alice, daughter of 



* Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii., p. 54^. 



\ Vide Extinct Peerage. 



% Barnes' History of Edward III., pp. 804, 810. 



§ Vide Erdeswick's Staffordshire. 



