b.of Atte Gate, Beckley, parents ukn
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b.of Beckley
m.dau of Leland de Allards
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b.of the Forde in Brede, East Sussex, England
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d.bef.Sept. 6, 1433
m.ukn
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b.abt.1414 Brede, East Sussex, England
d.abt.1487 Brede, East Sussex, England
m.Anne Lyvelode
b.abt.1430 of Lyvelode
d.abt.1493
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b.abt.1478 at or near Brede Place, Sussex, England
d.Feb. 10, 1531
bur.Brede Church, Sussex, England. Tomb is dated 1536, erected 6 years after his death.
m.(1?)Elizabeth Echingham d/o Sir Thomas Echingham and Margaret West
m.(2)abt. 1502 Anna Fiennes d/o Sir Thomas Fiennes and Anna Ursewick
b.abt.1484
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NOTES: In spite of being knighted by Henry VII in 1509, an unfortuate ledgend features our anscestor [copied from one of many sites with this story] This reputation is believed to be not deserved and was likely derived from the animosity of some Sussex tenants or some of his other local "enemies".:
Tiring, perhaps, of his usual diet of saddle of mutton, haunch of venison and roasted ox, Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, an early 18th century (sic) occupant of Brede Park, decided one day to tickle his jaded palate with an exquisite new sensation; that day one of the village children disappeared. Apparently the new dish pleased the squire and thereafter children were reported missing from all parts of Sussex.
Naturally the servants at Brede Park became aware of their master's nasty eating habits and soon it was common knowledge in the locality; but because Sir Goddard was, outwardly, a pious and God-fearing man of gentle birth, the gentry and clergy discounted the rumours as the wicked gossip of envious peasants. Thus the bereaved parents had little chance of retribution.So it was left to the actual victims, the children, to counter the threat to their lives. Secretly, all the children of Sussex got together and made a plan. At the entrance to Brede Park they placed a large barrel of mead, then lay in wait for the squire.
Foraying out in search of his supper, Sir Goddard chanced upon the barrel and being partial to a drop of good Sussex mead, he quaffed the lot and collapsed in a stupor in the middle of the bridge outside the park gates . Immediately the children emerged from the shrubbery, dragging with them a huge wooden saw. The East Sussex children took one end and the West Sussex children the other, and promptly they sawed the squire in half. They do say, over in Brede, that the child-eating ogre's ghost, in the form of a sawn tree trunk, still haunts Brede Park and the nearby Groaning Bridge.
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