Connections
Network View
Manors in the coverage area were connected through tenurial obligations, shared institutional holders, and administrative structures. The two most significant networks are the Portchester Castle serjeanty and the Southwick Priory holdings.
Portchester Castle Service
Several manors in the Portsdown hundred owed military service at Portchester Castle. Their lords were required to provide armed men for the defence of the castle, a form of tenure known as castle serjeanty that continued from the thirteenth century.
Southwick Priory Holdings
Southwick Priory, an Augustinian house founded inside Portchester Castle around 1128 and relocated to Southwick around 1150, held a substantial portfolio of manors and lands across Hampshire and Sussex until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538.