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| Name |
Ralph DE DENE |
| Suffix |
Lord of Buckhurst, SSX |
| Born |
Bef 1066 |
of Buckhurst, Sussex, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I13146 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
18 Oct 2021 |
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| Notes |
- living in the time of 20th William, the Conqueror, lord of Buckhurst, in Sussex, who wedded Sybella, sister of Robert de Gatton, and had a son, Robert, his heir, and a daughter, Ella,* m. to Sir Jordan Sackville, ancestor of the dukes of Dorset. He founded Otteham Abbey for Premonstratensian monks.
* This Ella, who inherited by will from her father Buckhurst and other estates in Sussex, in her widowhood endowed Bayham Abbey. See charter in the British Museum, by which she gives permission to the abbot and community to remove their establishment from their convent at Otteham for monks of the Premonstratensian order. , founded by her father Ralph Dene, to Bayham.
This Ralph de Dene, who possessed large estates in Romney Marsh in Kent and Sussex, as Lord of the manors of Buckhurst, Chaverham, Chalvington (near Lewes), Buggeley, Horsey and Omleford and founder of the Premonstratensian abbey of St. Mary and St. Laurence, Otham, in the parish of Hailsham, 1182. He married Sybella de Gatton, sister of Robert de Gatton (Inquisition Post Mortem 1264, C 132 30/16) and had a son, Robert, his heir and a daughter and co-heir Ella, as noted above.
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