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[Roger DE WASHBOURNE.FTW]

ID: I006913
Name: Urse DE ABITOT 1 2 3 4
Sex: M
Birth: ABT 1040 in St.Jean-d'Abitot, Normandy 1 2 3 4
Death: AFT 1108 1 2 3 4
Reference Number: QKCAAAA2
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Source: Richard Washburn Family Genealoby by Ada C Haight
        The Ancestors & Descendants of Abraham Daniel Washburn and his
                wife Flora Clarinda Gleason-Utah Pioneers 1805-1962
                by Ella L. Turner
        Washburn Family Foundations in Normandy, England & America
                by Mabel Tacher Rosemary Washburn
        The Washbourne Family by Reverend James Davenport, Vicar of
                Wichenford (lst published in 1907)

!It has been said that the first ancestor in England (Urse) was knighted during he Battle of Hastings by William the Congueror. (1066) 
He is said to have een created Earl of Worcestershire in 1076 and is also mentioned as Earl,Viscount and as the Sheriff of
Worcestershire.  He had far-spread lands inEngland  and he was considered tenant-in-chief (the King owned all the land andunder Feudal law, he held them directly from the King)  Tenant-in -chief's were also known as Barons.  Such Lordships he possesses in Worcesters hire,
Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Warwickshire.  In the Domesday Survey, 1086, he is called Sheriff of Worcestershire.  From history, his personality seemsto show deep-rooted conflict of soul.  Despotic seizure of what they wanted, outbreaks of barbaric fury, even ferocious cruelty, these evil traits sometimes demoralizing them to the worst of sins, sacrilege, were a wild storm in the beings of these near descendants of the fierce Vikings. With the Viking, heathen blood, however, they had the Christian heritage from their French
mothers, for the Northmen who invaded and won the land named for them brought few Scandinavian women to Normandy, and married daughters of the Frnkish people, Christianized for centuries.  When their conversion to Christ brought them into the influences of civilization, gradually, they learned to respect Law in itself, for all people. The only wrong doing that can be found to be contributed to Urse is one act of sacrilege.  It seems that Urse did "lawlessly and sacreligiously, encroach on the Monks' cemetery adjoining Worcester Abbey, in order to build there the ditch of his great castle.  Urse, was a supporter of King William (the conqueror) and helped to put down a rebellion that the Earl of Hereford had hatched.  Urse d'Abitot was the Founder of Malvern Priory, one of the beneficient religious institutions of the Monks of Saint Benedict. The foundation of the Prior by Urse d'Abitot was in 1083 .  The Prior Church was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Michael the Archan gel. Urse died sometime between 1108 and 1112.[Direct Linage1.FTW]

Father: Almeric DE ABITOT b: ABT 1010 in Tancarville, Normandy

Marriage 1 Adelisa DE ABITOT b: ABT 1040 in of Normandy, France
Married: ABT 1060 in Worcestershire, England 1 3 4
Children
Roger or Ernaldus De Powis DE ABITOT b: ABT 1060 in ,Worcestershire, England

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