Urso de Abitot Constable Of Worcester

  General Notes:

Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. I (Abitot), 1887, p. 34, Urso sat in the great council of 1082 and 1085 according to Dugdale. Emmeline, his daughter married Walter de Beauchamp, who obtained from Henry I, all the lands of Roger de Worcester and Sheriffalty of Worcestershire to hold as freely as any of his ancestors had done. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Domesday Book: ²¹⁴
Urso de Abitot appears in the domesday book. He was also called Urso of Worcester. He was from Abbettot, Seine -Maritime, France. He was the Sheriff of Worcestershire, the brother of Robert the Bursar, and helped crush revolt of Roger of Hereford in 1075. He took land from Worcester church and of Odo of Byeus after his disgrace. He had large land holdings in Worcester, Gloucester, Herefords, and Warwicks.

Urso married Atheliza.⁷²⁶