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    Penenden Heath is a suburb of the town of Maidstone in the English county of Kent. As the name suggests, it was developed on an area of heathland, an area...
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  • The trial of Penenden Heath occurred in the decade after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, probably in 1076, and involved a dispute between Odo,...
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    abbey at Boxley, hospitals and a college for priests. Today's suburb of Penenden Heath was a place of execution in medieval times. Maidstone played a key role...
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    at the trial of Penenden Heath, Odo was tried in front of a large and senior assembly over the course of three days at Penenden Heath in Kent for defrauding...
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  • his time, and was even brought from his prison to attend the trial on Penenden Heath where he gave testimony about English law before the Norman Conquest...
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    Church in synods. In the cases of Odo of Bayeux (1082) (see Trial of Penenden Heath) and of William of St Calais, Bishop of Durham (1088), he used his legal...
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    with the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1076 when he faced the Trial of Penenden Heath and finally with William himself in 1082. Odo was tried on a variety...
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    Council. Retrieved 7 April 2024. "STATEMENT OF PERSONS NOMINATED - Penenden Heath" (PDF). Maidstone Borough Council. Retrieved 7 April 2024. "STATEMENT...
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  • Kent and Essex. The Kentish Royalists assembled outside Maidstone at Penenden Heath with over 10,000 men raised for the Earl of Norwich. The force then...
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    period. Cooper, Alan (2001). "Extraordinary privilege: The trial of Penenden Heath and the Domesday inquest". English Historical Review. 116 (469): 1167–92...
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    counties bordering Wales and Scotland. A decade after the Norman conquest, Penenden Heath near Maidstone was the scene of a successful trial of Odo of Bayeux...
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  • Yorkshire (c.1068) Wulfstan v Thomas (1070) R v Roger de Breteuil Trial of Penenden Heath (1071) regarded by some commentators as "one of the most important events...
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  • Godfrey was hanged at Penenden Heath. Henry Youens 18 August 1814 Trial at the Kent Assizes in Maidstone, hanged at Penenden Heath. Ottaway, 33, and Youens...
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    to the monastery" is similar to a reference of 1076 in the Trial of Penenden Heath to the "lands and houses which Livingus, priest, and his wife, had in...
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  • Foley Park is a suburb of Northern Maidstone. Its closest village is Penenden Heath and is very close to the A249 and has easy access to the M20 motorway...
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  • Nettlestead • Nettlestead Green • Otham • Otterden • Park Wood • Platts HeathPenenden Heath • Pollhill • Ringlestone (hamlet) • Ringlestone (suburb) • Sandling...
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    a year. He presided at a very large and influential meeting held on Penenden Heath, Kent, on 10 October 1828, when strongly worded resolutions in favour...
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    begins that lasts until April 1077. Approximate date – The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to...
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  • Newton Heath, a district in the city of Manchester, England Northumberland Heath, a neighbourhood within the London Borough of Bexley Penenden Heath, a suburb...
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    Canterbury, amongst others, brought Odo to account at the trial of Penenden Heath c. 1072. Following Odo's final fall, Gundulf was appointed as the first...
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  • Aylesford. Heathland to the north of the town (today the suburb of Penenden Heath) was the site of shire moots or regional assemblies and the location...
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    1049/50-1097’, Speculum, 50 (1975), 1-20. ‘The Land Pleas of William I’s Reign: Penenden Heath Revisited’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 51 (1978)...
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    the lands that once belonged to Rochester Cathedral. At the Trial of Penenden Heath in that year the land was recovered. In 1077 Gundulf was consecrated...
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  • begins that lasts until April 1077. Approximate date – The Trial of Penenden Heath is held, with an important ruling regarding land rights subsequent to...
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  • fifty-strong group were eventually captured with three executed on Penenden Heath near Maidstone and a further fifteen transported to Tasmania. The abolition...
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    Old English meaning "a place of assembly". Its proximity to nearby Penenden Heath (the site of shire moots during the Middle Ages) indicates that it may...
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  • ISBN 0-582-78440-9. Bates, David (May 1978). "The Land Pleas of William I's Reign: Penenden Heath Revisited". Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research. LI (123):...
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    it was in connection with Pullen's death. He had just been hanged on Penenden Heath near Maidstone for stealing a sheep and five bushels of wheat. No cricket...
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  • August. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to death, and was hanged at Penenden Heath, near Maidstone on 21 August. The fratricide proved a theme for the...
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    Antiquarian Jottings, pp 5–6. Clinch, George. p6. See also the "Trial of Penenden Heath" – the inquiry ordered into the activity Of Bishop Odo by William I...
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