27 Jan Lordship Title of Lyford ID14332
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Six hides in LYFORD (Linford, x–xii cent.; Lifford, xiii cent.) were granted to a certain Ælfheah by King Edmund in 944, and were said later to have been conveyed by him to Abingdon Abbey. A further grant of 2 hides was made to the abbey by King Canute in 1034. The whole estate of the Abbot of Abingdon in Lyford in 1086 was assessed at 10 hides. Of these 7 were in the hands of Walter Giffard, who was not at that time an acknowledged 'man' of the abbot. The sons of Eliert, who had held the manor under the abbot in the reign of the Confessor, had commended themselves to the protection of Walter without the abbot's leave. The energy of Abbot Faritius, however, in the reign of Henry I, established the abbey's claim to the overlordship, and the younger Walter Giffard became his man. The mesne lordship of the Giffards appears in 1250, when the manor was said to be held of the heirs of the Earl Marshal for one knight's fee; in all other documents it is said to be held directly of the Abbot of Abingdon.
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