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Odo the bowman, Domesday tenant-in-chief
Dates: Flourished in the late eleventh century
A Norman landholder identified in Domesday Book by the occupational designation 'the bowman'. He held one Barthorpe component as tenant-in-chief and lord in 1086.
View historical person →Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, Earl of Kent, Archbishop of Canterbury
Dates: c. 1036-1097
Norman bishop and half-brother of William the Conqueror. His extensive English possessions, including the Domesday holding at Acrise, were forfeited after his rebellion against William I.
View historical person →Offa, King of Mercia
Dates: reigned c. 757–796
Eighth-century king of Mercia, associated with Mercian dominance in Anglo-Saxon England and the construction of Offa's Dyke.
View historical person →Oliver Calthorpe, Knight, High Sheriff of Norfolk in 1376, lord associated with Beauchamps
Dates: floruit late 14th century
Husband of Isabel Bacon and holder associated with Davillers in Brome.
View historical person →Oliver de Vallibus
Dates: fl. 1237
A member of the Vallibus, Vais, or Vaux family who held Shimpling and granted it to Richard de Rupella in 1237.
View historical person →Oliver Marton, Of Gray's Inn and Capernwray, purchaser of the Malhamdale estate
Dates: died after 1735; exact dates not established here
Oliver Marton was a Lancashire-connected gentleman who purchased the Malhamdale property in 1727 and devised his Yorkshire estates by will in 1735.
View historical person →Oliver St John, Member of the St John family
Dates: Dates not established in the consulted sources
Oliver St John was the younger brother and successor of John St John in the St John descent of Abbots Ripton Manor.
View historical person →Orc
Named with Tola as a founder and lay proprietor associated with the foundation and endowment of Abbotsbury Abbey in the 11th century.
View historical person →Orm, Pre-Conquest lord of an Acklam holding
Dates: Flourished in 1066
A landholder recorded in Domesday Book as lord in 1066 of one of the two Acklam components.
View historical person →Osbert, Immediate Domesday holder of Aldglose under William son of Tahun
Dates: Recorded in 1086
Osbert is named in the Domesday description as holding Aldelose from William son of Tahun.
View historical person →Osgod, Anglo-Saxon thegn, lessee of land at Adderbury
Dates: Active in 1043 x 1044
Osgod was the named lessee in an Anglo-Saxon charter granting him a life lease of land at Adderbury in exchange for land at Wroxall in the Isle of…
View historical person →Osgood Hanbury, Esquire, of Coggeshall
Dates: floruit 18th–19th century
Landowner of Coggeshall who purchased Bures at the Mount, together with the Hall and Fenhouse, from the executors of George Cressener.
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