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Robert DE DENE |
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1130 |
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Male |
| Person ID |
I13142 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
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- inherited the Kentish estates. He endowed Bayham Abbey. He married, and had, with two daughters, Alice, who further endowed Bayham Abbey, and Agnes, wife of -- De Icklisham, was s. by his son, See Cotton MSS.
HOUSES OF PREMONSTRATENSIAN CANONS
16. THE ABBEY OF OTHAM (fn. 1)
The abbey of St. Mary and St. Laurence was founded about 1180 by Ralph de Dene, who granted his land and chapel of Otham in Hailsham parish with other lands and rents in the neighbourhood to establish a house of Premonstratensian canons. The endowment was augmented by his son Robert de Dene, who gave his manor of Tilton in Selmeston; and by Ela, the founder's daughter, who married first Jordan de Sackville and afterwards William de Marci; amongst other things she granted a yearly rent of 6d. for the bettering of the meals of the convent on St. Laurence's Day.
... About 1207, however, Sir Robert de Turnham began to build an abbey at Bayham on the borders of Kent and Sussex, and Ela de Sackville, as patroness, gave leave for the transference of the canons from Otham thither. This cannot have taken place before 1208, as Jordan, the only known abbot of Otham and first abbot of Bayham, was still abbot of Otham in December, 1207. (fn. 2)
2. Cal. of Chart. of Abbey of Robertsbridge, No. 63.
[Source: "Houses of Premonstratensian canons: Abbey of Otham." A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 2. Ed. William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1973. 86. British History Online. Web. 20 November 2018. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol2/p86.]
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