. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ancellor of Salisbury andrector of Odiham in Thomas Burgess,Bishop of Salisbury, was born at Odiham in 1756 andeducated for five years at Odiham Grammar was appointed Bishop of St. Davids in 1803, andwas transferred to the see of Salisbury in 1825. Before the Conquest ODIHAM wasCASTLE held by Harold, and in 1086 it was a royalmanor. It would appear possible from theDomesday entry that there was at that time a royalresidence there. The manor had more than doubledin value, and there was a large and evidently pros-perous community
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ancellor of Salisbury andrector of Odiham in Thomas Burgess,Bishop of Salisbury, was born at Odiham in 1756 andeducated for five years at Odiham Grammar was appointed Bishop of St. Davids in 1803, andwas transferred to the see of Salisbury in 1825. Before the Conquest ODIHAM wasCASTLE held by Harold, and in 1086 it was a royalmanor. It would appear possible from theDomesday entry that there was at that time a royalresidence there. The manor had more than doubledin value, and there was a large and evidently pros-perous community of tenants,such as might be found at amanor in which was a It would seemthat Henry I had a residencehere which he visited in 1116,taand upon which repairs weremade in The castle,however, of which the ruinsnow remain, was built by KingJohn on a new site, namely on20 acres of meadow land whichhe took from Robert the Parkerof The exact date of this transaction is notknown, but ditches were being made and buildings. King leopards or. Gules erected at Odiham, presumably for the castle, in 120711under the direction of John Fitz Hugh, and in1213-14 repairs were made on the castle which mustthen have been King John was frequentlyat Odiham, evidently at the newly-built castle. Hepassed through Odiham on 28 July 1204 on his wayfrom Glastonbury to Windsor, and visited it in June1207, December 1207-8, February, June and October1209, February and May 1210, May 1212, Marchand April 1213, and in May 1215. He was therealso on 4 and 9 June 1215, and was summoned thenceby the barons to Windsor previous to granting He passed again through Odiham on 26 June,on his return from Windsor to Winchester. His lastvisit to the town was from 14 to 18 April Fitz Hugh was warden of the castle while itwas being built, but in April 1216 BartholomewPechie, then warden, was ordered to deliver thecustody of the castle to Engelard de Ci
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