William de Bidun1

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     In 1086, he held 5 hides in Lathbury & 4 hides & 2/5 of a virgates of land in Lavendon in Buckinghamshire. He was the bishop's sewer (dapifer) holding of his lord [Geoffrey bishop of Coutances] a virgate of land in Newton Bromswold (a parish chielfly in Northamptonshire).2 William de was born.

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  1. [S506] Note: hide - a land measurement which varied from 80 acres to 120 acres; a common measurement in the Domesday Book, it represented an amount of land that would support a family, or as much land as one could plow in a year's time.
    virgate - 1/4 of an acre or 1/4 of a carucate or about 30 acres.
    carucate - a measure of land, it was as much as could be tilled with a team of eight oxen in one year.
  2. [S1417] William Farrer, Honors and Knights' Fees, pages 1-2 - William (the sewer) held of Geoffrey bishop of Coutances, in 1086, 5 hides in Lathbury and 4 hides and two fifths virgate of land in Lavendon, Bucks., . . .It is from the Bedfordshire survey that we learn William was the bishop's sewer (dapifer) holding of his lord a virgate of land in Newton Bromswold (a parish chielfly in Northamptonshire) . . . In the time of Henry I or Stephen, William's fees at Lavendon was in the possession of Hadenald de Bedun. . He himself afterwards [1143] took the same course, becoming a monk in St Andrews, Northampton. On this occasion he gave to the abbey for himself, Anneta his wife and John his son, whom he appointed his heir. . .