Giles Codrington

____ - 1580

• DEATH: 1580

• MARRIAGE: 1576, Gloucester, England

1. +Richard Codrington

                                             _Thomas Codrington __+
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 _Francis Codrington _|
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[3862]
Sometime of Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, England, later of Dodington,Gloucestershire, England, and of Pucklechurch near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England.

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The grant of Standish manor in 1547 to the Duke of Somerset included the abbey's possessions in Saul and Framilode, and in 1558 Thomas Winston, who then had part of Standish manor, was licensed to grant Saul manor and c. 200 a. to Giles Codrington. Giles died in 1580 and his second son Richard, who made a settlement of the manor in 1596, sold it in 1599 to Richard Bird and his three grandchildren Thomas, Sibyl, and Anne Lloyd or Floyd.
Source: British History Online

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DODINGTON, anciently Dodintone, Is three miles s. E. from Sodbury, and twenty-eiglrt from Gloucester s. The soil in the lower parts is clayey, but becomes lighter on the more elevated lands. Sixty acres only of 1200 are under tillage in the parish.

The manor was given by the Conqueror to the Bishop of Constance, under whom Roger de Berkeley, of Dursley, and his descendants, held it for many years. In 1403, it passed by marriage into the family of De Cantilupe; and in 1473, by similar means, to Thomas Wekys, whose descendants had the possession of it till about the reign of Elizabeth, when it was sold to Giles Codrington, who was great grandson of Thomas, a younger son of Robert Codrington, of Didmarton. Samuel, the great great grandson of Giles,re-sold the manor to his kinsman, Christopher, son of the celebrated Christopher Codrington, Governor of the Leeward Islands. On his death, in 1702, he left it by will to his relative, William Codrington, who was created a Baronet in 1721. He was succeeded in title and estate by the late Sir W. Codrington, and on his death, about 1790, the title descended to his son; but the manor and estates at Dodington, with other property, came by virtue of his willto Christopher Codrington, Esq. his nephew, the present lord of the manor.

Source: The History of the County of Gloucester v. 2, Thomas Rudge, Robert Atkyns, 1803, p.281