Ebrington Manor
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Ebrington Manor is a grade II listed manor house in the parish of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, England. Since 1476 it has been a seat of the Fortescue family, since 1789 the Earls Fortescue.
Entrance gate piers
John Fortescue (judge)
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Sir John Fortescue, of Ebrington in Gloucestershire, was Chief Justice of the King's Bench and the author of De Laudibus Legum Angliae, first published posthumously circa 1543, an influential treatise
Ebrington Manor
…fourteenth or fifteenth century, and was significantly altered twice, in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. It was built on land purchased by Sir John Fortescue (c.1394-1479), who was Chief Justice of the King's Bench. An heraldic cartouche above the entrance door displays the arms of Fortescue impaling Aylmer…
Depiction of a Chief Justice of the King's Bench contemporary to Fortescue's term in office
A drawing of Fortescue in anachronistic 17th-century dress with an oversized Great Seal of England, from the Legal Portrait Collection of Harvard Law School Library
Monument with recumbent painted effigy of Sir John Fortescue in the Church of St Eadburga, Ebrington
The title page of Fortescue's De laudibus legum Angliæ (In Commendation of the Laws of England, 1616 edition)