Editing Temple Newsam (section)

=== 1066 to 1520 ===

In the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' of 1086 the manor is listed as ''Neuhusam'' (meaning new houses) and was [[Feudal land tenure in England|held]] by [[De Lacy#Ilbert de Lacy|Ilbert de Lacy]] and his sons.<ref name=":5">{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|pages=13}}</ref> Before the [[Norman Conquest]] of 1066 it had been held by Dunstan and Glunier, [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[thanes]].<ref name=":5" /> In about 1155, [[Henry de Lacy]] gave it to the [[Knights Templar]], who built [[Temple Newsam Preceptory]] on a site near the present house.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wheater|first=William|title=Temple Newsam: its history and antiquities|publisher=A. Mann, Leeds|year=1868|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f74HAAAAQAAJ&q=Preceptory&pg=PA19|pages=7–8}}</ref> The Templars farmed the estate very efficiently, with 1,100 animals.<ref name=":6">{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|pages=14}}</ref> In 1307 the Templars were suppressed, and [[Edward II]] granted the manor to Sir [[Robert Holland, 1st Baron Holand|Robert Holland]] who held it until 1323 when he was deprived of his estates.<ref name=":6" /> The [[Knights Hospitaller]] tried to acquire the estate but they were forced to surrender and in 1327 it was granted to [[Mary de St Pol]], the Countess of Pembroke, who held the manor for 50 years.<ref name=":6" /> In 1377 by royal [[decree]] the estate reverted to [[Philip Darcy, 4th Baron Darcy de Knayth]] (1341–1398).<ref name=":6" />  It then passed through several members of the Darcy family, until it was inherited by the 21-year old [[Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy]] in 1488.<ref name=":8">{{cite book|title=Temple Newsam House|publisher=The Libraries & Arts Committee of the Leeds Corporation|year=1951|pages=15}}</ref> Between 1500 and 1520 a Tudor [[manor house]], known as ''Temple Newsam House'', was built on the site.<ref name="guide">{{cite book | title =Temple Newsam: House Guide | publisher =[[Leeds City Council]] }}</ref> It has also been spelled "Newsham" in the past.<ref>
{{cite web | url = http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Whitkirk/Whitkirk68.html | title = Whitkirk: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1868 | publisher = [[GENUKI]] | access-date = 28 October 2007}} Transcribed from ''The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868''</ref>[[File:Hans Eworth Henry Stuart Lord Darnley and Lord Charles Stuart.jpg|alt=An oil on panel painting by Hans Eworth of Henry Stuart and his brother Charles Stuart in a grand interior based on a print by Hans Vreedman de Vries|thumb|An oil on panel painting from 1563 by [[Hans Eworth]] of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and his brother Charles Stuart in a grand interior based on a print by [[Hans Vredeman de Vries]] which may reflect Temple Newsam's Great Chamber]]