Location: Bredon / Worcestershire

Factoid List

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Event S116      Eanwulf 1, grandfather of King Offa 7, founded the church Bredon, Worcestershire
Event S117      Eanwulf 1, grandfather of King Offa 7, founded the church Bredon, Worcestershire
Office S193    Eanmund 6 held office of Abbot (abbot of Bredon)
Transaction S1257      Hathored 3, bishop of the Hwicce, with the consent of his familia at Worcester 1, to Offa 7, king of the Mercians; surrender of 90 hides (manentes) with the minster at Bath and also 30 hides (cassati) by the river Avon, in exchange for the confirmation of 30 hides at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks., 38 at Sture (? Kidderminster Worcs., or Alderminster, Warwicks.), 14 (manentes) at Stour in Ismere and 12 at Bredon, Worcs., and 17 (cassati) at Hampton Lucy, Warwicks.
Transaction S731      King Edgar 11 to Worcester, St Mary's 1 Abbey; grant of privileges for land at Cropthorne, Overbury, Pendock, Worcs.; Teddington, Gloucs.; Mitton in Bredon, Sedgeberrow, Worcs.; Northwick in Blockley, Evenlode, Daylesford, Dorn in Batsford, Icomb, Gloucs.; Shipston-on-Stour, Blackwell in Tredington, Warwicks.; Grimley, Little Witley, Knightwick, Hallow, Harvington, Bredon, Worcs.; Blockley, Gloucs.; Tredington, Warwicks; together with the creation of the triple Hundred of Oswaldslow
Transaction S1308      Oswald 8, bishop, to Æthelstan 48, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (manentes) at Southam Delabere in Bishops Cleeve, Gloucs., and 2 at Mitton in Bredon, Worcs.
Transaction S1347      Oswald 8, archbishop, to Cynelm 1, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2.5 hides (mansae) at Caldinccotan, in Bredon, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester 1
Transaction S1363      Oswald 8, archbishop, to his two loyal men, Beornheah 8 and his brother, Beorhtstan 3; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides at Moreton in Bredon, Worcs., in return for four pounds of sterling money
Event S1833      Ealhhun 2, bishop of Worcester, to the church of Worcester; confirmation of land belonging to the minster at Kempsey, Worcs., and of land at Bredon, Worcs..
Possession GDB  173 (Worcestershire 2:22) Worcester, St Mary's 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 35 hides in Bredon, Worcestershire (in 1086)
Possession GDB  173 (Worcestershire 2:22) Wulfstan 55 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 35 hides in Bredon, Worcestershire (in 1086)
Possession GDB  173 (Worcestershire 2:22) Worcester, St Mary's 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 35 hides in Bredon, Worcestershire (in 1066)
Possession GDB  173 (Worcestershire 2:22) Wulfstan 55 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 35 hides in Bredon, Worcestershire (in 1066)