Azor (landowner)

Azor was one of the most powerful English landowners at the time of Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. He was a kinsman and chamberlain of Brihtheah, a bishop of Worcester and a former abbot of Pershore.^[1] He owned property from Lincolnshire down to the Isle of Wight in many counties and like another great landowner of the times, , he also owned urban property in addition to his vast possession of lavish country estates.^[1] He is mentioned in the Domesday Book and appears in countless histories of English counties along with his sons, Goscelin, William, and Henry who inherited his estates after his death.^[2] The sons in particular are linked with the early histories of many of the major manor houses on the Isle of Wight.^[3]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Dalton, Paul; Appleby, John C. (30 November 2009). Outlaws in medieval and early modern England: crime, government and society, c.1066-c.1600. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7546-5893-1. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
^ Freeman, Edward Augustus (1870). The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Edward the Confessor. 2d ed., rev. 1870. Clarendon Press. p. 680. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
^ Page, William (1912). "A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5. Victoria County History. Parishes: Newchurch". University of London & History of Parliament Trust, accessed through British History Online. pp. 139–151. Retrieved 6 July 2011.

External links[]

Atsere 8 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Land held by persons called Azur, PASE Domesday.

[DaltonAppleby2009-1] Dalton, Paul; Appleby, John C. (30 November 2009). Outlaws in medieval and early modern England: crime, government and society, c.1066-c.1600. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7546-5893-1. Retrieved 7 July 2011.

[Freeman1870-2] Freeman, Edward Augustus (1870). The History of the Norman Conquest of England: The reign of Edward the Confessor. 2d ed., rev. 1870. Clarendon Press. p. 680. Retrieved 7 July 2011.

[british-history.ac.uk1912-3] Page, William (1912). "A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5. Victoria County History. Parishes: Newchurch". University of London & History of Parliament Trust, accessed through British History Online. pp. 139–151. Retrieved 6 July 2011.

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