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Stoborough
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to foreshore on rivers and beaches, or lakes, rights to commons of fishing and hunting, rights to commons of
minerals, water, or elements, rights to estover and wood, rigts of ways and servitudes, Offices, which are a right
to exercise a public or private employment, and to the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also
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like, Dignities, rights to Franchises, liberties, palatines, court leets, holding pleas, markets and fairs,
forests, chases, Free-warren, river water, lake water, ocean water, rocks reifs, ocean islands, inland islands,
bays, waterways, boating and water rights, rights to treasure, rights to mineral rights, landscape pictures,
satellite images, Annuities, rents, or any honor dignity or title related to former grants in relation to the lands
or territories.
- Annaly and Longford are at the center of Ireland
- Under DeLacy's Lordship of Meath, he granted western meath to Lord Delvin or Baron Delvin of the
Nugent/Nogent family.
- Baron Delvin or Lord Westmeath received various other Longford and Annaly grants of baronies and
seignories from King Edward, Philip and Mary, and King James.
- The Nugents intermarried with the Irish clans and their families.
- Baron Delvin and Lord Westmeath is a descendant of the princes and kings of Annaly,
Breifne, Meath and many other local clans.
- The grants were held by Baron Delvin who is and was an Irish Citizen.
- The Republic of Ireland became independent.
- The rights, perquisites, dignities, designations, and hereditiments of Ireland remain legally
viable to those who have either purchased or inherited the incorporeal property.
- The Fief Thomas Blondel was SOLD in 2017 at Auction by Manorial Auctioneers in the
UK by: Count Marcov, Seigneur de Fief Thomas Blondel 2000-2017.
- Style of a Seigeur Law is listed in 1980 Laws.
- It is said that there are only 23 Private Fiefs in the Guernsey Island. See Map:
http://sog.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Viewer/index.html?appid=b72b10ff812b4f58a2895a08b8d10cb1
.
- This is an Ancient Fief which pre-dates most UK law and titles.
- This Fief pre-dates the use of typical baronial titles.
- This Fief Title and Owner's Dignity is similar to a Scandinavian Barony or Free Lord such
as a Freiherr or Free-Holder Property.
- This Fief and Lordship is said to have existed by 1179.
- The charters issued by the Kings of England allow for this Fief to exist independently of English or UK
law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_charters_applying_to_the_Channel_Islands
- The Fief Holders rights from time immorial have included rights to things such as: water, common
areas, rain, land, soil, mineral rights, beaches, foreshores, hunting, fishing, airspace, trees, foliage,
treasure from shores, and so forth.
- The Fief and its citizens may have immunity from the Vatican from a Papal Bull.
- The Bailiwick of Guernsey includes the separate jurisdictions of Alderney
and Sark and the islands of Herm, Jethou and Lihou. The island of Brecqhou is part of Sark. Jersey,
Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not part of the UK but are self-governing dependencies of the
Crown.
- Guernsey has been placed on EU tax haven
blacklist.
- The Crown dependencies are the Isle of Man in the Irish
Sea, and the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel. They are independently administered
jurisdictions, and do not form part of either the United Kingdom or the British Overseas
Territories
- The Island of Guernsey is a self-governing
Island.
- The Channel Islands are part of the territory annexed by
the Duchy of Normandy in 933 from the Duchy of Brittany. This territory was added to the grant of land given in
settlement by the King of France in 911 to the Viking raiders who had sailed up the Seine almost to the walls
of Paris.
- In 1204 the title and lands of the Duchy of Normandy and
his other French possessions were stripped from King John of England by the King of France. The Channel Islands
remained in the possession of the King of England, who ruled them as Duke of Normandy until the Treaty of Paris
in 1259.
- King Henry III of England renounced the title of Duke of
Normandy by that treaty, and none of his successors ever revived it. The Channel Islands continued to be
governed by the Kings of England as French fiefs, distinct from Normandy, until the Hundred Years' War, during
which they were definitively separated from France.
- A unique constitutional position has arisen as successive
monarchs have confirmed the liberties and privileges of the Bailiwicks, often referring to the so-called
Constitutions of King John, a legendary document supposed to have been granted by King John in the aftermath of
1204. Governments of the Bailiwicks have generally tried to avoid testing the limits of the unwritten
constitution by avoiding conflict with British governments.
- The Proper fee or the fee payable to the Crown in respect of obtaining "congé" at the rate such
as 2% on the purchase price has been paid to the Crown for the rights to this Fief.
- The "congé" or "permission" of the Crown is still required in respect of the conveyance or ownership of a
Freeholder Feudal Fief. (Congé was formerly payable in respect of the majority of Real Property
transactions in Guernsey but was abolished in respect of all but transactions involving Fiefs on 1 April
2003 upon the commencement of The Feudal Dues (General Abolition of Congé) (Guernsey) Law, 2002).
- Fief Blondel legally claims any rights to potential seastead property and buildings offshore of the fiefs
foreshore and beaches. Seasteading is the concept of creating permanent dwellings at sea, called
seasteads, outside the territory claimed by any government.
- Accretion - Fief Blondel Claims any new beach or accretion of property or new islands along with any other
associated land rights.
- Other Lands Claimed - Fief Blondel claims ownership of: Marie Byrd Land which is a massive bit of land
(620,000 square miles) in Antarctica
- Fief Blondel also claims the Bir Tawil which is no man's land south
of Egypt.
- Style of Seigneur - As per the The Feudal Dues (Guernsey) Law,
1980 Style of Seigneur of a fief etc. Section 4. The foregoing
provisions of this Law shall be without prejudice –(a) to the right of any person to use, in the case of a male
person, the style of Seigneur and, in the case of a female person, the style of Dame, of a fief, (b) to the
feudal relationship between Her Majesty and any person holding an interest in a private fief on or at any time
after the commencement of this Law, or to the feudal relationship between any person holding an interest in any
fief and any person holding an interest in a dependency of that fief, and (c) to the right or obligation of any
person by virtue of that person holding an interest in any fief which is not a right to which those provisions
apply or any obligation correlative thereto.
www.guernseylegalresources.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=71301&p=0
- All Seigneurs are in charge of their own feudal courts and maintaining the timeless customs of the
Fief. https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Feudal_Court
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secondary beneficiary and contingent beneficiaries.
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the company activities.
The Norman Fief de Thomas
Blondel came about through the medieval fragmentation of Fief Au Canelly and consequently, of
the initial half of Guernsey given by Duke Richard II in 1020 to Neel, Vicomte of the Cotentin. The Canelly family owned land near Cherbourg in Normandy in
addition to the Guernsey territory (There is no existing record of the grant of the fief. It may be granted to the
Canely family but there is a gap of at least 100 years before any record of that family’s connexion with the fief).
In 1270, on the death of Sir Henry Le Canelly, the Guernsey fief was divided
between his daughters. Guilemette, the wife of Henry de Saint Martin obtained a considerable part of the island
originating later the fiefs of Janin Besnard, Jean du Gaillard, Guillot Justice and Thomas
Blondel. This was confirmed by the tenants and officers of the Fief in letters patent issued by Guernsey's
Royal Court under the Bailiwick Seal in 1463. A Thomas Blondel was a jurat of Guernsey’s Royal Court from 1421-45. The
Blondel family has given several jurats to the island. Later the Columbines and Fiotts were the holders of the
title. For a time, the rights over the Fief were divided in two. Pierre Robillard of Maison de Pleinmont, Torteval,
was the Seigneur of Fief de Thomas Blondel. The title passed to his son and
grand son. The rights over the Fief again joined during the XIX century as shown in documents of 11/10/1800 (Reg
Tome 26, p 420) and 19/05/1798 (Date tome 25, no pages in the tome).
The Fief is spread over areas in the parishes of St. Pierre-du-Bois and
Torteval. The chief pleas of the Seignorial court of Fief Thomas Blondel were
held annually at the mounting block or steps (perron) of the Church of St. Pierre-du-Bois. A little over half of Fief de Thomas Blondel was exempt from chef rents
by virtue of two legal documents dated 18 July 1440 and 24 May 1447.
- A fief is an estate of land granted by the monarch in return for feudal service – the terms of service vary
for different fiefs.
- In Geurnsey the feudal-free-holder or owner of a fief is called a Seigneur –a similar position to a feudal
baronnie or freiherr who owns an allodial right in lands.
- One of the ancient feudal rigths for the Seigneur in Guernsey is to hold a feudal court which can be done
on the Feifs Beach or Foreshore.
- A duty of the Seigneur in Guernsey is maintain the rights of the fiefdom which have existed since Rollo the
Viking conquered the region of Normandy.
- The King of France lost Normandy to the Vikings, however, the fiefs have their roots in feudal allegiance
to the Viking Dukes of Normandy during the 11th and 12th centuries.
- Feudal Noble Fiefs are inherited but can be bought and sold just like Barons by Tenure where the rights are
considered timeless, natural law, honnorific and ceremonial value.
- There are 23 private fiefs in Guernsey. The rest of the fiefs are owned by the Queen or Crown.
- There are some fiefs in Guernsey which do not and have not ever pledged fielty to the Crown.
Grant of the fief of Thomas Blondel in the parishes of St Peter of the Wood and Torteval, Guernsey, made by Janet
Blondel to Thomas de la Court on 18 July 1440, attested by Jean Bonamy and Jacques Guille, jurats. GRANT of BLONDEL
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5701/grant_of_a_fief_in_the_parishes_of_st_peter_of_the?archiveRefCode=%22MS%20699%22&resultOffset=2
- Seigneur-Freihalter des Lehens Blondel in den Nordischen Kanalinseln (feudale Würde)
- Lord Freeholder of the Fief Blondel in the Norman Channel Islands (Feudal Tenure Dignity)Feudalherrschaft
Würde)
- Seigneur de la fief of Th-Blondel, St Peter of the Wood and Torteval, GUERNESIAISE
Grant of a fief in the parishes of St Peter of the Wood and Torteval ...
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/5701
Copy of a grant of the fief of Thomas Blondel in the parishes of St Peter of the Wood and Torteval, Guernsey,
made by Janet Blondel to Thomas de la Court on 18 July 1440, attested by Jean Bonamy and Jacques Guille, jurats, 5
May 1637. Seal, restored.
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intangibles and historical rights to related property around the world.This site uses photos and likenesses of
owners or rights holders. The website hasrights to use place names, ancient territory names, rights to light,
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jurisdiction of USA Colorado Federal Courts.The lords and ladys of this seignory or territory may be several people
including primary beneficiary, secondary beneficiary and contingent beneficiaries. Expenses of this research,
seignory, property rights, marketing, branding, advertising, publishing, products, services, and other necessary
travel or publications are part of the company activities including the activities of honors holders: 1) Lady
of Ennerdale 2) Dame of Fief Blondel 3) Baroness of Longford and 4) Lady and Lord of Stoborough
PROJET DE LOI
ENTITLED
The Feudal Dues (Guernsey) Law, 1980
Style of Seigneur of a fief etc.
4.
The foregoing provisions of this Law shall be without prejudice –
(a) to the right of any person to use, in the case of a male
person, the style of Seigneur and, in the case of a
female person, the style of Dame, of a fief,
(b) to the feudal relationship between Her Majesty and
any person holding an interest in a private fief on or at any time after the commencement of this Law, or to the
feudal relationship between any person holding an
interest in any fief and any person holding an interest
in a dependency of that fief, and
(c) to the right or obligation of any person by virtue of
that person holding an interest in any fief which is not
a right to which those provisions apply or any
obligation correlative thereto.
www.guernseylegalresources.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=71301&p=0
In France, a seigneur noble of a fief could claim to be a: "seigneur de la baronnie" de Blondel"
*a roturier (commoner) could only be a seigneur de la baronnie (lord of the barony).
During the Ancien Régime, French baronies were very much like Scottish ones. Feudal landholders were entitled to
style themselves baron if they were nobles; a roturier (commoner) could only be a seigneur de la baronnie (lord of
the barony). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron
The Ancien Régime (French pronunciation: ?[?~.sj?~ ?e?im]; French for "old regime") was the political and
social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (c.?15th century) until 1792, when hereditary
monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the French Revolution.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien_R%C3%A9gime
Allodial lands are the absolute property of their owner and not subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment
to a superior. Allodial title is therefore an alternative to feudal land tenure. However, historian
J.C. Holt states that "In Normandy the word alodium, whatever its sense in other parts of the Continent, meant not
land held free of seigneurial services, but land held by hereditary right,"[5] and that "alodium and feodum should
be given the same meaning in England."
The Fief has a Court of Chief Pleas comprised the Seigneur, the Seneschal, the Priest, the Greffier and
the Tenants, as owners of the tenements. The Chief Pleas also had power to appoint 2 police officers, the
Constable being the senior of the two, and the Vingtenier who would succeed him the following year.
Le Seigneur de Fief Blondel
AD 1179 - We find Legal Reference of Lord Seigneur of Thomas Blondel, a noble fief, in a charter of 1179AD
when he is witnessing a grant to St. Michael's Mount. He is Robert Malmarchie (Thomas Blondel).
1200's AD - The Parish of St. Andrew in which Thomas Blondel lies contained a group of four late 12 century
ecclesiastical Fiefs, one held by the Bishop of Countances, the second held by the Abbot of Cormery, Tours, the
third held by the Abbot of La Croix St. Lewfroy, Evreux, and the fourth held by the Abbess of Trinity, Caen.
The Fief Thomas Blondel derives its name, as we have already observed from the family of Malmarcher or Malmarchy
who are recorded in the charters as existing in Guernsey in the 12th Century.
In 1440, The Feifdom Grant of the Fief of Thomas Blondel in the parishes of St Peter of the Wood
and Torteval, Guernsey, made by Janet Blondel to Thomas de la Court on 18 July 1440, attested by Jean Bonamy
and Jacques Guille, jurats. See University of Leeds Library
GRANT of BLONDEL
Chevetaine Chief of the Blondel Fief -
Seigneur/Dame
Palatine, Palatiness
The ruler of a Palatinate. The highest rank available to a non-royal vassal. A palatinate is almost its
own nation. This rank is normally used as a modifier, e.g. Count Palatine
All local French lordships disappeared when feudalism was abolished in 1789 but the Channel Islands remained
independent from both France and the United Kingdom.
Baronial Fief- Sir Thomas Innes of Learney in his 'Scots Heraldry' (2nd Ed., p. 88, note 1)
states that 'The Act 1672, cap 47, specially qualifies the degrees thus: Nobles (i.e. peers, the term being here
used in a restricted seventeenth-century English sense), Barons (i.e. Lairds of baronial fiefs and their "heirs",
who, even if fiefless, are equivalent to heads of Continental baronial houses) and Gentlemen (apparently all
other armigers).'
Seigneur de la Baronnie -
During the Ancien Régime, Norman Frankish or French baronies were very much like Scottish ones, feudal landholders
were entitled to style themselves baron if they were nobles, a roturier could only be a seigneur de la
baronnie.
Palatine, Palatiness - The ruler of a Palatinate. The highest rank available to a non-royal vassal. A
palatinate is almost its own nation. This rank is normally used as a modifier, e.g. Count
Palatine
The Seigneur of Fief Blondel is considered by law and Ancient Count Palatine of Fief
Blondel.
The rights of Fief Thomas Blondel reunited in one holder (Count
Marcov) after September 2000.
The Fief was Held by Count Marcov and publicized in many venues in Europe and
worldwide on the internet which has created clear title and rights without any opposition from year 2000 until 2017
when it was sold to the present owner. Under international law, the Fief was held by Count Marcov for 17
years.
Legal Rights of the Fief Blondel
While any existing or new special rights are all claimed by the Fief and Seigneru, it is assumed that
the Fief may hold rights to the following under international law, customary law, and ancient feudal law.
- Water Rights
- Mineral Rights
- Rights to Trees or Animals
- Hunting and Fishing Rights
- Beach Front Rights
- Ocean Front Rights
- Port of Call Rights
- Cellular Rights
- Airwave Rights
- Rights to use common Areas.
- The Fief Thomas Blondel has waived NO rights to any existing or future rights.
- Rights to treasure of found items.
- Rights to use the local church or places of worship
- Rights to Feudal Courts
- Rights to appoint any feudal offices locally or internationally.
- Rights to Pardon
- Rights of Neutrality from the Pope and Vatican and from the RC Church.
- Any other rights or charter rights illuminated from the Crown or by Treaty.
- Fishing
- Seaweed
- Goods washed up by Sea
- Hunting and Shooting
- Colombier Rights
- Rainwater
- Year and a day the revenue from the real estate of any tenant who dies without direct heirs of his
body.
- Rights to build windmills or wind farms.
- Rights to Usefruct or Servitude for Power Lines, Fiber Cable, Underground Wires, Underground Pipes, and
above ground use of airspace.
Sources:
Rights
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2015/06/04/ancient-property-laws-must-be-respected-despite-foreshore-gift/
http://www.statesassembly.gov.je/assemblypropositions/2003/31891-31363-992003.pdf
Sources
Lords of Manors http://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/articles/article/lords-manors
Seigneur de la baronie "lord of the barony"
Seigneur "dignity of nobility"
Feudal Baron
Feudal Chief
Overlord
"last feudal barons ".
Norman feudal baron
Sark's 500 people are governed by the Seigneur, a feudal baron with privileges dating back to 1565, when Queen
Elizabeth I let Jerseyman Helier de Carteret and 40 men settle here.
Bankton states ('An Institute of the Laws of Scotland', II, III, 84)
that nobility 'followed the property of the estate to which it was
annexed'. Quoting Spencer-Thomas of Buquhollie v. Newell (SLT, 1992)
Craig states ('Jus Feudale', I, xii, 23) that 'where the prince makes
a grant of lands which have rank attached to them he enobles the
grantee even though no express conferrment of noble rank be made'.
Quoting Spencer-Thomas of Buquhollie v. Newell (SLT, 1992)
Lord of the Manor - A title, similar to Lord of the Manor, in French would be Seigneur du Manoir,
Gutsherr in German, godsherre in Norwegian and Swedish, ambachtsheer in Dutch and signore or vassallo in Italian.
In Italy, particularly in the Kingdom of Sicily until 1812, the feudal title signore was used; like the English
title, it came into wide use in Norman times, from the French seigneur.
Free Lord or friherre
Freeholder lord of Fief blondel Translates to: Freiherr von Fief blondel
Freiherr Lehnsherr von Fief Blondel or Freeholder of Fief Blondel or Freiherr von Lehen Blondel
Danish friherre af Fief blondel
Dutch vrijgezelle heer van Fief blondel
Norway frittstående herre av Fief blondel
A Legal Designation and Land Rights Dignity - In France, Lord (seigneur) was not a title. The owner of a
lordship, even a commoner, was its lord. The term "lord" only meant "the possessor of a certain kind of
property" in the feudal system, a mixture of actual real estate and rights over people (rents and fees could be
collected from them, certain obligations could be imposed on them, etc). Someone who was only a seigneur
was not titled. All lordships in France disappeared when feudalism was abolished in 1789 and lordships of
Germany and Austria in 1945. Thus, the only authentic Norman titles still in existance are the Feudal
Fiefs of Guernsey.
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