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A History of the County of Essex
… (Suff.), held by Robert fitz Wimarc in 1066 and by his son Sweyn of Essex (d. 1100 × 1114) in 1086, included RIVERS HALL in Boxted. It was held of Sweyn's honor of Rayleigh and the overlordship was recorded …
A Survey of London
… I remember to haue read, that in the yeare of Christ, 994. Sweyn king of Denmarke besieging the Citie of London, both by …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… The town and church having been nearly destroyed by Sweyn, King of Denmark, in 1010, were restored by Canute, who …
Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… He had bought the land from Waltheof, who acquired it from Sweyn ( DB I, f. 32; cf. Harmer, 357, no. 92, where Sweyn, a kinsman of Edward the Confessor, is named as the …
Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… 9. English writ of W I, ordering William bp. of London, Sweyn the sheriff and the thegns of Essex, that the abbey is … soke, as he first granted them. Whosoever holds the lands, Sweyn is to convey them to the abbey, and all alienated goods … Synods, ii, 607), but d. later that year ( Fasti I, 1). Sweyn the sheriff was in office before the Domesday Survey ( …
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541
Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… of his wife Matilda, he has confirmed the gift which Sweyn of Essex, grandfather of Henry of Essex, made to St …
Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… Grant by Abbot G[ilbert] and the convent to Robert son of Sweyn, of the land of Wheatley (Essex), which his father gave … no. 97. Date: Prob. following on Robert's confirmation. Sweyn still held Wheatley 1086 ( DB II, 43), although he was …
Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066 - c.1214
… convent donated 1. 10 s. of the alms given to the abbey by Sweyn, father of Robert of Essex, and Ailmar the priest … Anglo-Saxon Charters, nos. 894, 1040, 1043, 1450. On Sweyn of Essex and his s. Robert, see Sanders, 139. 250. …