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Robert Arden

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  • Name Robert Arden  [1
    Birth of Cotesford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I16260  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 10 Dec 2024 

    Family (Unknown) Samwell 
    Children 
    +1. William Arden,   b. of Cotesford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F9976  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Dec 2024 

  • Notes 
    • "In the late 14th century the Prior of Ogbourne had adopted the practice of leasing Cottisford manor. Edward Metteley, who held a lease of land in Cottisford as early as 1375, obtained a lease of the manor for nine years in 1391. This was renewed in 1400, for the lives of himself and his wife Margaret. Eton College continued the practice, and its leaseholders came to be termed lords of the manor. In 1450 the estate was leased to Robert Arden for a term of 20 years and in 1469 for 60 years to John Samwell. He was apparently Arden's brother-in-law and the bailiff of Cottisford and Fringford (where Eton also owned a small property). John Samwell died before 1505, since from that year until 1512 his son Roger paid rent to the college. Roger Samwell's widow Eleanor was the leaseholder in 1513–14, and her second husband Thomas Danvers of Banbury paid the rent from 1515 to 1521. Thomas and Eleanor Danvers then quitclaimed their rights in the manor of Cottisford, and in 1522 the lease returned to the Arden family in the person of John Arden (d. 1535), grandson of Robert Arden. In 1542 the leaseholder was his son, John Arden (d. 1556), who in his turn was succeeded by his son, a third John Arden, who obtained a renewal of the lease." [The Victoria County History of Oxfordshire, citation details below]

  • Sources 
    1. [S777] The Victoria County History of Oxfordshire. Portions online, linked from medievalgenealogy.org.uk.

    2. [S2154] The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Years 1566 by William Harvey, Clarencieux; 1574, by Richard Lee, Porticullis; and in 1634 by John Philpott, Somerset, and William Ryley, Bluemantle. Edited and annotated by William Henry Turner. London, 1871.

    3. [S8009] Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, "The Warwickshire Ardens." The Genealogical Magazine 2:151, 1898-99.