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Piddington, Oxfordshire

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Coordinates: 51°51′07″N 1°04′16″W / 51.852°N 1.071°W / 51.852; -1.071

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Village in Oxfordshire, England

For other uses, see Piddington (disambiguation).

Human settlement in England<br>PiddingtonSt. Nicholas' parish church

Piddington

Location within Oxfordshire

Area9.53 km2 (3.68 sq mi)Population370 (2011 Census)• Density39/km2 (100/sq mi)OS grid referenceSP6417Civil parishPiddington

DistrictCherwell

Shire countyOxfordshire

RegionSouth East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townBicesterPostcode districtOX25Dialling code01869PoliceThames ValleyFireOxfordshireAmbulanceSouth Central<br>UK ParliamentBicester and Woodstock

List of places<br>UK<br>England<br>Oxfordshire

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Piddington is an independent village and civil parish about 4.5 miles (7 km) southeast of Bicester in Oxfordshire, England. It lies close to the border with Buckinghamshire. Its toponym has been attributed to the Old English Pyda's tun.[1] The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 370.[2]

Manor<br>[edit source]

Just before the Norman Conquest of England, Hacun, a Dane, held the manor of Piddington, and also the nearby manor of Merton.[1] The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Judith, Countess of Huntingdon, a niece of William I of England held the manor.[1] After the Revolt of the Earls in 1075 Judith's husband Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria was executed and William the Conqueror betrothed her to Simon I de Senlis. She refused to marry him and fled England, so William confiscated her estates and allowed Simon to marry Judith's eldest daughter Maud. Simon received estates including Merton and Piddington as part of the honour of Huntingdon.[1]

In 1152 Simon II de Senlis inherited Piddington and almost immediately granted it to the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford.[1] In 1153 Simon II died, and his heir King Malcolm IV of Scotland, confirmed the grant of Piddington to the Priory.[1] However, Malcolm's heir-apparent William the Lion took Piddington back from the Priory.[1] In about 1174 Henry II deprived William of all his titles and lands in England and granted the Earldom of Huntingdon to Simon III de Senlis.[1] Simon acknowledged the Priory's claim to Piddington but continued to hold the overlordship himself, even ignoring a Papal bull upholding the Priory's rights.[1]

Joan of Piddington had held the manor of Simon II de Senlis, and in about 1183 she married Aubrey de Dammartin, son of Albéric I de Mello and Dammartin, Grand Chamberman of France.[1] After Aubrey's death the Crown held Piddington in escheat for several years before it passed to his heir, Reynold de Dammartin.[1] In the Anglo-French War of 1202–14 Reynold supported Philip II of France against King John, for which he was deprived of his English estates.[1] In 1213 Reynold's estates were restored but when he died in 1227 Henry III seized them again.[1]

In 1270 Henry III granted Piddington to a Breton, Alan Plukenet, in exchange for a manor in the New Forest.[1] In 1309 his son, Alan II, granted Piddington to Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester, who in turn granted it to John de Hadlow, lord of nearby Boarstall[1] in Buckinghamshire. In 1326 Despenser was executed for rebelling against Edward II and forfeited his estates, but de Hadlow was allowed to keep Piddington until he died in 1346.[1] However, Sybil, widow of Alan Plukenet, successfully claimed a third of Piddington as dower.[1] Also, in 1331 St Frideswide's Priory began a lawsuit to recover Piddington from John de Hadlow.[1]

In 1337 Edward III granted Piddington to Nicholas de la Beche of Aldworth and in 1340 de la Beche was licensed to grant Piddington to Sir John Sutton, lord of Dudley.[1] In 1347 Sir John was licensed to grant Piddington to John de Peyto for life, with reversion to Sir John thereafter.[1] Title was then disputed between the Sutton and de Peyto families, but in 1359 the Priory finally succeeded in regaining the manor.[1] St Frideswide's Priory retained Piddington until 1525, when Cardinal Wolsey suppressed the Priory to found his Cardinal's College.[1] In 1530 Henry VIII deposed Wolsey and in 1532 Piddington passed to Christ Church, Oxford.[1]

However, in 1553 Piddington was granted to Thomas Dynham, lord of the manors of Brill and Boarstall in Buckinghamshire.[1] In 1634 Thomas's...