Individual Details
Adrian Brekespere
( - )
From Visitations Hertfordshire, R. Cooke 1572, Sir R. St. George 1634, p. 141
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From The Abbey of Saint Alban, Some Extracts from Its Early History, Rev. H.J.B. Nicholson (1887), p. 16:
It was probably in his time that Nicholas, son to a servant in the Abbey, Robert Breakespeare of Abbots Langley, a village near St. Albans, applied for admission into the monastery. In the Catalogue of Benefactors and of those admitted into the fraternity of the monastery of St. Albans (Cotton MSS. Nero, D 7), record is made of John Ferrers and Agatha his wife, coheiress of Adrian Brekespere of Langley—and also Bernard Brekespere, clerk, her uncle. There is a farm in this parish which still preserves the name of Breakspear ; and local tradition has always accounted it the place of the nativity of the only English Pope.
[A genealogy on p. 13 mentioned above has an abbot and a monk named Geoffrey in 1100's.]
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From British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp323-328
Parishes: Abbot's Langley
Pages 323-328
A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1908.
In the hamlet of Bedmond there is a farm-house called BRAKESPEAR'S, which takes its name from the samefamily as Nicholas Brakespear, Pope Adrian IV, the only pope of English birth, said to have been born at Abbots Langley. (fn. 73) It is said in the chronicles of the monastery of St. Albans that 'in 1154 there succeeded a pope, Nicholas, a religious man and born in the territory of St. Albans.' (fn. 74) And, further, we read that Pope Adrian granted privileges to St. Albans, (fn. 75) and a cup to that monastery which was always used with reverence. (fn. 76)
Mention is made of a certain Adrian Breakspear living in Langley in the middle of the fifteenth century, (fn. 77) and the name is not unfrequently found in Hertfordshire. In 1575 Brakespear's belonged to Sir Richard Lee, who sold it to the queen (fn. 78) in that year, and in 1590 she granted it to Richard Thekeston. (fn. 79) By two fines of the eighteenth century it was conveyed in succession to John Deacon (fn. 80) and Edward Shippery. (fn. 81) It now belongs to Mrs. Solly of Serge Hill.
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From The Abbey of Saint Alban, Some Extracts from Its Early History, Rev. H.J.B. Nicholson (1887), p. 16:
It was probably in his time that Nicholas, son to a servant in the Abbey, Robert Breakespeare of Abbots Langley, a village near St. Albans, applied for admission into the monastery. In the Catalogue of Benefactors and of those admitted into the fraternity of the monastery of St. Albans (Cotton MSS. Nero, D 7), record is made of John Ferrers and Agatha his wife, coheiress of Adrian Brekespere of Langley—and also Bernard Brekespere, clerk, her uncle. There is a farm in this parish which still preserves the name of Breakspear ; and local tradition has always accounted it the place of the nativity of the only English Pope.
[A genealogy on p. 13 mentioned above has an abbot and a monk named Geoffrey in 1100's.]
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From British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol2/pp323-328
Parishes: Abbot's Langley
Pages 323-328
A History of the County of Hertford: Volume 2. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1908.
In the hamlet of Bedmond there is a farm-house called BRAKESPEAR'S, which takes its name from the samefamily as Nicholas Brakespear, Pope Adrian IV, the only pope of English birth, said to have been born at Abbots Langley. (fn. 73) It is said in the chronicles of the monastery of St. Albans that 'in 1154 there succeeded a pope, Nicholas, a religious man and born in the territory of St. Albans.' (fn. 74) And, further, we read that Pope Adrian granted privileges to St. Albans, (fn. 75) and a cup to that monastery which was always used with reverence. (fn. 76)
Mention is made of a certain Adrian Breakspear living in Langley in the middle of the fifteenth century, (fn. 77) and the name is not unfrequently found in Hertfordshire. In 1575 Brakespear's belonged to Sir Richard Lee, who sold it to the queen (fn. 78) in that year, and in 1590 she granted it to Richard Thekeston. (fn. 79) By two fines of the eighteenth century it was conveyed in succession to John Deacon (fn. 80) and Edward Shippery. (fn. 81) It now belongs to Mrs. Solly of Serge Hill.
Events
| Alt name | Alexander Breakespeare | ||||
| Alt name | Adrian Breakspear | ||||
| Residence | Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, England |
Families
| Child | Agatha Brekespere ( - ) |
| Father | Unknown Father Brekespere ( - ) |
| Sibling | Bernard Breakspear ( - ) |