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Articles related to channel island fiefs & seigneurs
Articles About Specific Seigneurs or Fiefs
Click Here - The Seigneur de Poingdestre's efforts are featured in this edition "Rural Jersey" - bravo, sir!
Click Here - The Seigneur de Poingdestre travels 5,000 miles to pay homage to King Charles on Jersey
Click Here - More related to the Seigneur de Poingdestre's trip to Jersey to attend the King's Visit
Click Here - The BBC covers the King's Visit to the Channel Islands - spotlight on Poingdestre
Click Here - Peter de Sausmarez discusses opening his manor for the summer season in 2023
Click Here - John Dick, previous Seigneur of St. John (Jersey) is memorialized in this 2023 obituary
Click Here - "Vive La Duchesse!" QE2 is greeted correctly while in Normandy in this 2023 article
Click Here - The Seigneur of Fantôme, of Guernsey, invests personal funds to rescue Island history
Click Here - The Seigneur of Sark works hard to reinvigorate investment in his island fief
Click Here - The (late) Queen is remembered as Duke of Normandy in this Express article
Click Here - Victory at Cobo car park! The Seigneur is paid £72.5k, by the Crown, for his rights - huzzah!!!
Click Here - The owners of Fief de Carteret go to loggerheads with residents about a parking lot
Click Here - Another citation of the Cobo car park dispute related to Fief de Carteret (above)
Click Here - Yet one more citation of the Cobo car park dispute fought by owners of Fief de Carteret
Click Here - An ex-seigneur finally buys himself a football club after chasing Liverpool unsuccessfully
Click Here - The "last" American seigneur, Fief Thomas Blondel, is spotlighted here - no longer "the last"
Click Here - Vincent Obbard, Seigneur of Samarès in Jersey, offers tenants of Fief de Crapedoit a free pint
Click Here - Vincent Obbard, Seigneur of Samarès, welcomes visitors to his manorial gardens in 2015
Click Here - Pamela Bell, Dame of Trinity, is appointed an OBE for her charitable services to Jersey in 2013
Click Here - Seigneur of Samarès in Jersey, claims ownership & privileges over areas of common land
Click Here - The Seigneur of Samarès grows his own crop of "thatching straw" for restoration projects
Click Here - The previous Seigneur de St. John, of Jersey, has his dirty laundry aired for all to read
Click Here - Tom Scott, the Seigneur of Canelly (Guernsey), discusses his choice to switch islands
Click Here - The Seigneur of St. Ouen is fined for amplified music coming from his event-hosting home
Click Here - How Dame Sibyl Hathaway, of Sark, outmaneuvered the occupying German forces
Click Here - HM receives feudal homage, in the form of two dead mallards, from the Seigneur of Trinity
Click Here - The history of The Fiefdom of Sark is explored in this helpful article
Click Here - Sark faces the future without Dame Sybil - a NY Times article from 1974
Related to Seigneurial Rights
Click Here - Traditions alive today in Guernsey's Chief Pleas still recognize seigneurs & fiefs
Click Here - Ancient "communes" (common land) are investigated in this 2020 article - current rights??
Click Here - The Dame du Fief le Comte (Guernsey) tells residents to remove veg stalls from her roadside
Click Here - The Seigneur de Trinity's efforts to establish a new dairy on Jersey are highlighted here
Click Here - The Chefs Tenant du Fief de la Reine, of Jersey, seek to prevent a local festival on common land
Click Here - The Chefs Tenant du Fief de la Reine, of Jersey, approve a new beach restaurant - causes alarm
Click Here - The Chefs Tenant du Fief de la Reine establish the boundaries of Fort William - on common land
Click Here - The +800-year-old tradition of presenting dead mallards is skipped during a '05 Crown visit
Click Here - The tradition of presenting two dead mallards is photographed during HM's '01 Jersey visit
Click Here - The Queen gifts Jersey ownership of the island's foreshore - in contradiction of feudal law
Click Here - Related to the potential windfall that ownership of foreshore could bring to a seigneur
Click Here - The Seigneur of Sark begrudgingly gives up his feudal tax (treizieme) under pressure
Click Here - A beach toilet closure is closed by the Fief Court of Blanchelande due to lack of funds
Click Here - A seigneurial watermill is considered for restoration - is the seigneur still liable for repair?
Click Here - SOS Jersey writes a brief article on the "saga" of The Queen's gift of foreshore to Jersey
Click Here - The Queen's foreshore 'gift' in Jersey is questioned by the lawyer of the Les Pas settlement
Click Here - Seigneurial right to foreshore in Jersey is discussed with reference to Les Pas settlement
Click Here - A BBC article references the new owners of Fief de Carteret claiming a car park as waste land
Related to Seigneurial Courts
Click Here - Royal Court sitting of Chief Pleas is a meaningful tradition - which seigneurs are involved in
Click Here - Guernsey is gifted a treasure-trove of medieval documents by the late Hugh Lenfestey
Click Here - Fief courts of Le Comte & De Blanchelande are the only two that, reportedly, continue to meet
Click Here - Guernsey is gifted a treasure trove of historical fief court documents & livres de perchage
Click Here - The Court of the Fief de Blanchelande travels to France to conduct fief business
Fiefs for Sale
Click Here - The Fief de Poingdestre in Jersey finds a capable, new owner from Colorado, USA
Click Here - Fief de Poingdestre in Jersey goes up for sale for the first time in centuries n in 2022 (BBC)
Click Here - The sale of Fief de Poingdestre in Jersey is discussed in this Jersey Evening Post article
Click Here - The new Seigneur of St. John aims to take his estate in a "green" direction
Click Here - Fief de St. John is mentioned in this article as having sold apart from the manor for 50k in 2019
Click Here - Fief de Massy Gros goes up for auction in 2018 - login required to view final sales price
Click Here - Fief de Massy Gros, in Guernsey, sells in 2018 for 17k - Dame of Sark's motorized wheelchair too
Click Here - Fief de Fauville, Guernsey, sells for 23k in '14 with right to style oneself "Seigneur" or "Dame"
Click Here - The Fief de la Rondiole, in Jersey, goes up for sale at 25k in 2016 by Manorial Auctioneers
Click Here - Fief de la Motte, in Jersey, is auctioned by Bonhams for 20-30k in '05 - nice background info here
Click Here - An attempted sale of "the principality & lordship of Ecreho" is noted in this 2005 article
Click Here - The Fief/Principality of Ecrehous is further cited in this 2004 BBC article
Click Here - The Fief/Priory of Ecreho (Jersey) fails to sell on eBay - and then really hits the slums elsewhere
Click Here - The BBC notes that Fief de Carteret goes up for sale in 2003 for an asking price of 20-30k
Click Here - This rec.heraldry post references a Strutt & Parker sale of Fief de Canelly in 2002 - @ 35k
Click Here - The Fief de Mauxmarquis, of Guernsey, is marketed via auction by MSGB for 40k back in 1987
About Sark
Click Here - Tiny Sark attempts to double it's (shrinking) population of only 492
Click Here - Michael Beaumont, 22nd Seigneur of Sark, is remembered by The BBC in this obituary
Click Here - A rather dim look at Sir David Barclay's passing - and his complicated legal history with Sark
Click Here - "The Island of Sark (and it's seigniory) is not for sale," states the late Seigneur of Sark
Click Here - The history of The Fiefdom of Sark is explored in this helpful article
Click Here - Royal visits to Sark are recalled by Reg Guille, past Seneschal and Speaker of Sark Chief Pleas
The Fief "Title Game" - the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Click Here - Article from 1911 reports that "many of the European States" are willing to trade cash for titles