23 Apr Lordship Title of Chilton ID14216
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A second manor of CHILTON was held at the time of the Domesday Survey by Wenric under the Abbot of Abingdon, and had previously been held by Blacheman under Earl Harold. It is stated in the Abingdon Chronicles that Blacheman, who was a wealthy priest, was holding it from the abbey in 1050, and that upon his flight from England with the mother of Harold the land was wrongfully forfeited to William the Conqueror, who, however, after much solicitation from the abbot, restored it to the abbey. The Chronicles further relate that the estate had originally belonged to one Wulfget, from whom it had been confiscated in 1015 for engaging in plots against King Ethelred, and that it had then been granted to Brihtwold Bishop of Ramsbury, who conveyed it to the abbey. Their right to it was confirmed in 1052 by a charter of Edward the Confessor, and this again was re-confirmed in the reign of Henry II by a bull of Pope Eugcnius. The abbey continued to hold the overlordship of the manor of the king in chief until the Dissolution.
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