Individual Details
Unknown Father Brekespere
( - )
The Abbey of Saint Alban, Some Extracts from Its Early History, Rev. H.J.B. Nicholson (1887), p. 16
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 pre
serves the name of Breakspear ; and local tradition has always ac
counted it the place of the nativity of the only English Pope.
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 pre
serves the name of Breakspear ; and local tradition has always ac
counted it the place of the nativity of the only English Pope.
Families
| Child | Adrian Brekespere ( - ) |
| Child | Bernard Breakspear ( - ) |