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Alveston, the Glossary

Alveston is a village, civil parish and former royal manor in South Gloucestershire, England, inhabited in 2014 by about 3,000 people.^[1]

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Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury OSB (1033/4–1109), also called (Anselme d'Aoste, Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and (Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was an Italian Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher, and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archenemy

In literature, an archenemy (sometimes spelled as arch-enemy) or archnemesis is the main enemy of someone.

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Aust

Aust is a small village in South Gloucestershire, England, about north of Bristol and about south west of Gloucester. Alveston and Aust are civil parishes in Gloucestershire and villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Battle of Evesham

The Battle of Evesham (4 August 1265) was one of the two main battles of 13th century England's Second Barons' War.

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Battle of Lewes

The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War.

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Bec Abbey

Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region.

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Cannock Chase

Cannock Chase, often referred to locally as The Chase, is a mixed area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire, England.

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Chaddesley Corbett

Chaddesley Corbett is a village and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England.

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Chivalric romance

As a literary genre, the chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the noble courts of high medieval and early modern Europe.

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Civil parish

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government.

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Coity Castle

Coity Castle (Castell Coety) in Glamorgan, Wales, is a Norman castle built by Sir Payn "the Demon" de Turberville (fl. 1126), one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan supposed to have conquered Glamorgan under the leadership of Robert FitzHamon (d. 1107), Lord of Gloucester.

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Common land

Common land is collective land (sometimes only open to those whose nation governs the land) in which all persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance.

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Courville-sur-Eure

Courville-sur-Eure is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in France.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Demesne

A demesne or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support.

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Domesday Book

Domesday Book (the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror.

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Dover Castle

Dover Castle is a medieval castle in Dover, Kent, England and is Grade I listed.

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Earthcott

Earthcott is a hamlet in the civil parish of Alveston in South Gloucestershire, England, between Latteridge and Rudgeway on the B4059 road between the A38 road and Yate. Alveston and Earthcott are villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Edward III of England

Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England from January 1327 until his death in 1377.

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Empress Matilda

Empress Matilda (10 September 1167), also known as Empress Maud, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy.

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English feudal barony

In the kingdom of England, a feudal barony or barony by tenure was the highest degree of feudal land tenure, namely per baroniam (Latin for "by barony"), under which the land-holder owed the service of being one of the king's barons.

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Escheat

Escheat (from the Latin excidere for "fall away") is a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who has died without heirs to the crown or state.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law.

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Forest of Braydon

The Forest of Braydon (anciently Bradon) is an historic royal hunting forest in Wiltshire, England, the remnant of which lies about 6 miles north-west of Swindon.

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Fulk FitzWarin

Fulk FitzWarin, variant spellings (Latinized Fulco filius Garini, Welsh Syr ffwg ap Gwarin), the third (Fulk III), was a prominent representative of a marcher family associated especially with estates in Shropshire (on the English border with Wales) and at Alveston in Gloucestershire.

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Fulk FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin

Fulk FitzWarin, 1st Baron FitzWarin (14 September 1251 – 24 November 1315), sometimes styled as Fulk V FitzWarin, was an English landowner and soldier who was created the first Baron FitzWarin in 1295, during the reign of King Edward I.

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Fulk I FitzWarin

Fulk I FitzWarin (born 1115, died 1170/1) (alias Fulke, Fouke, FitzWaryn, FitzWarren, Fitz Warine, etc., Latinised to Fulco Filius Warini, "Fulk son of Warin") was a powerful marcher lord seated at Whittington Castle in Shropshire in England on the border with Wales, and also at Alveston in Gloucestershire.

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Gilbert Denys

Sir Gilbert Denys (c. 1350–1422) of Siston, Gloucestershire, was a soldier, and later an administrator.

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Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (abbreviated Glos.) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school.

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Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson (– 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king.

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Henry II of England

Henry II, also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.

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Henry III of England

Henry III (1 October 1207 – 16 November 1272), also known as Henry of Winchester, was King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine from 1216 until his death in 1272.

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Hide (unit)

The hide was an English unit of land measurement originally intended to represent the amount of land sufficient to support a household.

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High Sheriff of Somerset

The office of High Sheriff of Somerset is an ancient shrievalty which has been in existence since the 11th century.

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Hundred (county division)

A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region.

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Iron Acton

Iron Acton is a village, civil parish and former manor in South Gloucestershire, England. Alveston and Iron Acton are civil parishes in Gloucestershire and villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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John, King of England

John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216.

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Langley and Swinehead Hundred

Langley and Swinehead was an ancient hundred of Gloucestershire, England.

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Lent

Lent (Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, before beginning his public ministry.

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List of animal names

In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups.

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Magna Carta

(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Majority

A majority is more than half of a total.

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Manorialism

Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably France and later England, during the Middle Ages.

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Marcher lord

A marcher lord was a noble appointed by the king of England to guard the border (known as the Welsh Marches) between England and Wales.

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Marlwood School

Marlwood School (founded 1606) is a state-funded co-educational secondary school currently part of the CSET multi-academy trust.

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Olveston

Olveston is a small village and larger parish in South Gloucestershire, England. Alveston and Olveston are villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Peter de Montfort

Peter de Montfort (or Piers de Montfort) (1205 – 4 August 1265) of Beaudesert Castle was an English magnate, soldier, and diplomat.

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River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren), at long, is the longest river in Great Britain.

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River Trent

The Trent is the third longest river in the United Kingdom.

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Robert Atkyns (topographer)

Sir Robert Atkyns, (1647 – 29 November 1711) was a topographer, antiquary and Member of Parliament.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational aerospace and defence company incorporated in February 2011.

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Round barrow

A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments.

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Rudgeway

Rudgeway is a village in South Gloucestershire in south west England, located between Alveston and Almondsbury on the A38 trunk road. Alveston and Rudgeway are villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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Selwood Forest

The ancient Selwood Forest ran approximately between Gillingham in Dorset and Chippenham in Wiltshire.

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Shropshire

Shropshire (historically SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name. and abbreviated Shrops) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England, on the border with Wales.

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Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester

Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (– 4 August 1265), later sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from his namesake relatives, was an English nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the baronial opposition to the rule of King Henry III of England, culminating in the Second Barons' War.

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Simony

Simony is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things.

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Sister city

A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties.

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Siston

Siston (pronounced "sizeton") is a small village in South Gloucestershire, England. Alveston and Siston are civil parishes in Gloucestershire and villages in South Gloucestershire District.

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South Gloucestershire

South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England.

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Stephen, King of England

Stephen (1092 or 1096 – 25 October 1154), often referred to as Stephen of Blois, was King of England from 22 December 1135 to his death in 1154.

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Tenant-in-chief

In medieval and early modern Europe, a tenant-in-chief (or vassal-in-chief) was a person who held his lands under various forms of feudal land tenure directly from the king or territorial prince to whom he did homage, as opposed to holding them from another nobleman or senior member of the clergy.

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The Complete Peerage

The Complete Peerage (full title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant); first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by Vicary Gibbs et al.) is a comprehensive work on the titled aristocracy of the British Isles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveston

Also known as Alveston, Gloucestershire, Alveston, South Gloucestershire.

, Olveston, Peter de Montfort, River Severn, River Trent, Robert Atkyns (topographer), Rolls-Royce Holdings, Round barrow, Rudgeway, Selwood Forest, Shropshire, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, Simony, Sister city, Siston, South Gloucestershire, Stephen, King of England, Tenant-in-chief, The Complete Peerage, Thornbury and Yate (UK Parliament constituency), Thornbury, Gloucestershire, Tockington, Tower of London, Ward (law), Waterton, Bridgend, William II Canynges, William II of England, William the Conqueror.

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