Robert Fitzharding, Founder and benefactor of St Augustine’s Abbey, Bristol, associated with the Berkeley lordship, Anglo-Norman royal official, founder of the Berkeley family
Dates: died 1170
Biography
A prominent twelfth-century Bristol landholder and benefactor who founded St Augustine’s Abbey and endowed it with lands, including Leigh.
Notes / Sources
The manor connection is explicitly stated by the cited sources.
Research sources:
- Historic England, Leigh Court, Abbots Leigh, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest, list entry 1000407, historic development section; corroborated by Abbots Leigh Family History Society, “Abbots Leigh”. — https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000407
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