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The court cases are part of a large collection of pleadings, at this time, against a process of Normanization that within a decade saw 64% of land in England consolidated into the hands of just 150 individuals, and many of the nobility deprived of their estates.
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Although the charge of Æthelwig misappropriating lands is possible, Odo had already been in court actions with Ealdred over occasions where Odo had confiscated of lands held by
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belonged to his holding, so that the abbot ought to do him service from them like his other tenants". The bishop also argued that
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Walter is known for his varied legal actions, at a time that the newly established Norman kings were taking lands from the
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Knowles, Brooke and London (eds.), The Heads of Religious Houses : England and Wales. 1, 940–1216, p. 47.
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Wulfstan argued that these rights which Walter had refused to provide had been set in the time of
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and steward, and making the office of steward hereditary within his own family.
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in France. It is not known if he was born in the village or had lived in the
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there, do military service and the other royal services required from these
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was an 11th-century abbot and church leader in England under the
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Chron. de Evesham (Rolls Ser.), 95, 96. V. C. H. Worc. i. 306–8.
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Walter appears to have been involved with the dispute between
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had been successful in acquiring the lands they had claimed.
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Walter died in 1104, according to the chronicle ascribed to
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Index

Abbot of Evesham
Evesham Abbey
Æthelwig
Maurice
Cerisy
Norman conquest
Domesday Book
Cerisy
Bayeux
abbey
Cerisy-la-Forêt
Æthelwig
abbot of Evesham
dean
nobility
ecclesiastical
Bishop Wulfstan
pleaded
Bengeworth
Worcester
sake and soke
Hampton, Worcestershire
Oswaldslow
geld
hides
Edward the Confessor
Odo of Bayeux
William the Conqueror
Abbot of Evesham Abbey
abbot

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