Manor of North Molton

The Manor of North Molton was a medieval manor estate in North Molton, Devon, England.

North Molton was a manor within the royal demesne (known as Nortmoltone in 1086) until it was granted to a member of the la Zouche family by King John (1199–1216). In 1270 Roger la Zouche was granted licence to hold a weekly market in the manor and an annual fair on All Saints' Day.Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby (1267–1314), son of Roger de la Zouche, was born in North Molton on St Denis's Day (9 October) 1267 and was baptised in the church there, as was testified by his uncle "Henry la Zuche, clerk" at his proof of age inquisition in 1289. In 1313 he donated the advowson of the church to Lilleshall Abbey in Shropshire, which retained it until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. The family's mansion-house was at Burcombe, the castellated remains of which were still visible in about 1750. The site, which is today Burcombe Farm, is 1 1/4 miles SW of the church on the ridge road leading to South Molton.

A member of the family of St Maur (or "Seymour") married a co-heiress of la Zouche, and thereby acquired the manor of North Molton. The Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640) gives the arms of "Nicolas, Lord St. Maur, of Northmolton" and of "Richard, Lord St. Maur, sonne of Nicolas" as: Argent, two chevronels gules a label of three points vert.

During the reign of King Edward IV (1461–1483) William Bampfylde married Margaret St. Maur, and thus the manor passed to the Bampfyldes,lords of the manor of Poltimore.

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