Reginald I de Vautort held 55[5] manors in Devon and Cornwall from Robert, one of which was Modbury.
[6] The Vautort family is believed to have originated at the manor of Torteval in Calvados, Normandy.
[8] The right to appoint a new prior continued to be held by the lord of the manor of Modbury, for many generations in the 15th and 16th centuries the Champernowne family (Latinised to de Campo Arnulphi), with the approval of the Bishop of Exeter.
[9] It survived King Henry V's Suppression of Alien Priories of 1414, but in 1441, under the priorship of William Benselyn, it was finally dissolved[10] by King Henry VI, who gave its possessions to his new foundation of Eton College.
[11] King Edward IV,[12] having deposed Henry VI in 1461, reassigned Modbury's lands in 1466 to Tavistock Abbey[13] in Devon, much favoured by him, but these were soon after restored to Eton, which continued to hold many of them until the 19th century[14] and beyond.