History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . battle of Bosworth Field that the triumphantking knighted him on the battlefield, August 22, 1485, together Bicknell Genealogy XV sentiment of that early English type of men and women of ourname and blood. One is also impressed with the utter vanityof planning and endowing for ages to come, for we find arrange-ments establishing chantries, obits, priests and scholars, l
History and genealogy of the Bicknell family and some collateral lines, of Normandy, Great Britain and AmericaComprising some ancestors and many descendants of Zachary Bicknell from Barrington, Somersetshire, England, 1635 .. . battle of Bosworth Field that the triumphantking knighted him on the battlefield, August 22, 1485, together Bicknell Genealogy XV sentiment of that early English type of men and women of ourname and blood. One is also impressed with the utter vanityof planning and endowing for ages to come, for we find arrange-ments establishing chantries, obits, priests and scholars, legaciesto cathedrals, abbeys, churches, with ordinances solemnly en-rolled, to last for all future time. And yet within a generation,the decrees of the rapacious and capricious Henry VIII, and hisharsh and dogmatic son, Edward VI, confiscated, appropriatedall the moneys and artistic treasures of the churches and mon-asteries, and eventually despoiled and ruined the very shrinesand sanctuaries. Gifts and donors were involved in one commondoom, and thenceforth the history of the wealthy and powerfulPaveley-Bicknells, their descendants and many of their friends,recedes into a mediaeval twilight, obscure to the Pave lev , France. XVI Bickxell Genealogy CHAPTER Sixteenth Century Bicknells. We have seen that the Bicknell family is descended from theancient Pavilly family of France and is of Teutonic Normanstock, clearly traceable to Sir Amalbert de Pavilly, founder of amonastery at Pavilly, in Normandy in 664, A. D. We havetraced the family line to the marriage of Robert de Pavilly andJohanne de lEstra in Somersetshire, England. An interesting bit of romance is gleaned from the ancientrecords concerning the Paveley-de lEstra marriage. It was lawand custom in the thirteenth century that a maid with an estate,without parents, could not marry without the consent of the III was as jealous of his marital rights as was his notoriousdescendant,
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