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Badby history
The land around Badby and Newnham changed hands frequently as the forces of Mercia and the invading Danes ebbed and flowed across middle England. The shared rector or vicar arrangement goes back 750 years.
Saxon
Charters record that the land was given by a Saxon sheriff (or shire reeve) Norman, Norman, to the Abbey of Croyland (or Crowland) around the year 726. To fund defence against the invading Danes around 871, Beorred seized it back and gave it to his army officers. After Edmund’s murder in 946, the estate was returned in 948 by his brother, King Edred (or Aedred, Ædred, Edric)
Norman
Evesham Abbey built a moated grange or farm headquarters 500 yards north-east of the church. The house was built by the notorious Abbot Roger Norreys in 1189. It continued in a variety of uses after the dissolution of the abbey during Protestant Reformation.
Ecclesiastical
Since its foundation in 709, Evesham Abbey had successfully developed an independent existence. It could not avoid being dissolved in November 1539, during the Protestant Reformation. In the 9th century, the parish was in the Diocese of Dorchester (Oxon), a safer location adopted by an earlier Bishop of Leicester to avoid the invading Danes.
Later times
King Henry VIII granted the manors of Badby and Newnham in 1542 to Sir Edmund Knightley and his wife Ursula. The dower house in Fawsley Park, last inhabited in 1704, is now in ruins. The manor lands and courts were dissolved in the early 20th century.
The Root(e) family
The Root(e) family is listed as one of the early settlers in ‘A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, before 1692’ We often receive enquiries, especially from America about the family. There are no monuments, gravestones nor descendants of the family that we can identify in Badby village today.
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