01 Oct Lordship Title of Kintbury Eaton ID14286
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All the land in the parish to the south of the river, except that held by the nunnery of Amesbury, had been held by King Edward the Confessor, and was in the king's hands in 1086. Of this, Henry de Ferrers held 43 acres, which had been used by Godric the sheriff for the purpose of pasturing his horses. Soon after this survey had been made this royal manor seems to have been granted to Roger de Beaumont, for the gave to the Knights Templars certain lands here now known as Templeton (q.v.). He retired about 1090 to the abbey of Preaux, and his eldest son Robert succeeded him. Robert is generally considered to have become Earl of Leicester, and on his death in 1118 his elder son Waleran, who was under age at the time of his father's death, became Count of Meulan and succeeded to the Norman estates, while the English manors and the earldom of Leicester passed to the younger son Robert, better known as Robert Bossu. He granted to the abbey of Fontevrault 25 librates of land in Kintbury and the soke of Hungerford for making a convent of nuns of the order of Fontevrault. His original intention seems to have been to found the convent at Kintbury, and this foundation may even have taken place, for Gervase Paynel gave his mill of Inkpen to 'God and St. Mary of Fontevrault and the nuns of Keneteburi,' but shortly after, about 1155, he transferred the gift to the priory of Nuneaton, which Robert Earl of Leicester had founded, and Robert endowed this priory with the land he had formerly granted to St. Mary of Fontevrault. This estate was known afterwards as the manor of KINTBURY EATON. The overlordship of Kintbury Eaton descended with the earldom of Leicester until the 14th century.
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