- Hoxne manor
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Hoxne manor in Suffolk, England was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Survey as a seat of the East Anglian bishops,[1] from around that date being the bishops of Norwich, a transition from the bishops of Thetford. The Domesday name of Hoxne hundred, annexed to the manor, was "Bishop's Hundred".[2][3] At this point Herbert Losinga took Hoxne as a key location from which to compete with the Abbot of St Edmunds; he rededicated the church at Hoxne to honour Edmund the Martyr, and kept control of the Hoxne manor house, though himself locating elsewhere.[4]
Bishops Thomas Brunce and Walter Lyhert died there during the 15th century.[5][1] It was a residential episcopal manor, and probably the site of a bishop's palace.[6][7][8]
The manor house still belonged to the Bishop of Norwich, under the name Hoxun Court, during the reign of Henry VIII of England; it passed to the king in 1535.[9][10][11] The manor house site was then occupied by Hoxne Hall; it was seat of the Maynard family, before passing to the Kerrisons, being the seat of the Kerrison Baronets.[12][13] Under the later name Oakley Park[14][15] it lasted until the twentieth century, but was demolished in the period 1920–1930.
References
- ^ a b http://www.hoxne.net/history/the_church.html
- ^ http://www.culturalecology.info/baywatch/baywatch1/otohydra/hund_html/TheHundreds.html
- ^ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/assembly/Anderson1.pdf, p.87 of PDF.
- ^ http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/1066-1216.cfm
- ^ Harvey, Margaret, "Brouns, Thomas", on the website of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Subscription or UK public library membership required), http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/3652
- ^ PastScape page, MONUMENT NO. 388947
- ^ http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/4276.html
- ^ http://castlefacts.info/contentpages/castledetails/castledetails.asp?country=England&countyid=38&county=Suffolk&castleid=3645&latitude=52.35249&longitude=1.20064&uin=14276
- ^ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 12 Part 1: January-May 1537, no. 1284
- ^ A Woman of the Tudor Age, Cecilie Goff, p.85
- ^ The Manors of Suffolk, pp. 50–51.
- ^ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51050#s21
- ^ http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsK.htm
- ^ The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
- ^ http://www.discoversuffolk.org.uk/userfiles/Walks/9956%20Treasured%20Suffolk%20Hoxne%20Walk%20web%20version.pdf
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