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	Thornbury Castle
	A history of the Manor and Castle

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Centuries:

Pevious holders			Next holders

	Alfred	Athelston	Aelfweard	Aelfweard Meaw
	?	?	?	960
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ÆTHELSTAN

c.893-939

Titles: King of the West Saxons; First King of the English

His name: Æthelstan is the original Anglo-Saxon. The modern spelling is Athelstan.

Legacy: Athelstan did not marry and passed on his lands and manors to his wider family.

The manor: Athelstan may have held the manor of Thornbury as a crown estate! There is no record of it being owned by him but it must have been his to gift it to a Haylward for services rendered.

Family: The first reference to the manor says that Athelston granted the manor to Haylward Meaw! That Haylward was possibly his half brother Aelfweard/Haylward who died young. There is no record of a wife or children but for Haylward Meaw to pass the manor on to his son Aelfgar around 100 years later then Aelfweard must have had issue to inherit the manor and pass it down through the generations!

Father Edward the Elder

Mother Ecgwynn

Further information: Read more about Athelstan on the Internet.

Not married

A timeline of the holders of the manor and castle from Saxon times to the modern day.


Alfred the Great	Edward the Elder	Altelstan	Aelfwaerd	Aylward	Aelfgar	Brictric	Mathilda	William I	William II	Robert FitzHamon	Mabel FitzHamon	William FitzRobert	Aumarie de Montfort	Amice FitzRobert	Isobel FitzRobert	Gilbert de Clare	Richard de Clare	Gilbert de Clare	Margaret de Clare	Margaret Audley	Hugh de Stafford	Edmund Stafford	Humphrey Stafford	Humphrey Stafford
?	?	?	?	?	980	1051	1062	1070	1083	1090	1107	1157	1183	1213	1213	1225	1230	1262	1295	1342	1349	1386	1403	1460

Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry VII	Edward VI	Mary I	Henry Stafford	Ursula Pole	Henry Stafford	Edward Stafford	Edward Stafford	Henry Stafford	Mary Stafford	William Howard	Henry Stafford Howard	William Stafford Howard	Thomas Howard	Philip Howard	Edward Howard	Henry Molyneux-Howard	Henry Howard	Edward Howard	Algar Howard	Kenneth Bell	Maurice Taylor	Hotel groups
1470	1483	1521	1547	1553	1554	1554	1563	1566	1603	1625	1637	1637	1693	1719	1727	1732	1750	1777	1824	1875	1916	1966	1988	?