Urse d'Abitot, Sheriff of Worcestershire, Norman tenant-in-chief or substantial tenant under Odo, Bishop of Bayeux
Dates: died c.1108
Biography
Urse d'Abitot was a Norman landholder and sheriff of Worcestershire who held Acton in 1086 under the fee of Odo, Bishop of Bayeux.
Notes / Sources
The d'Abitot family continued to be associated with the estate into the later thirteenth century, but individual intervening holders are not securely identified in the sources used.
Research sources:
- Domesday evidence as discussed in Victoria County History, Worcestershire, volume I; C. W. M. Pratt, 'An Interpretation of a Tudor Manorial Survey of Acton Beauchamp,' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, volume 50, 2001, pp. 215-216. — https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AVCH_Worcestershire_1.djvu/339
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