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| Birth: | ABT 1478 in Brede Place, Sussex, England |
| Death: | 10 FEB 1531 in Sussex, England |
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Burial: Brede Place, Sussex, England
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| Anna Fiennes (Wife) b. ABT 1500 in Claverham In Arlington, Sussex, England |
| Marriage: BEF 1525 |
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 Margaret Oxenbridge b. ABT 1525 in Brede Place, Sussex, England
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BIOGRAPHY: ---Source: Keith W. Taylor,[ Australia]:
" I am intrigued that you have Sir Goddard as giant. Giant as I know it comes from a ghost story made up by some smugglers. By the way he was only 5 foot 3 or 4 inches tall."
http://brede_with_udimore.homestead.com/Stories.html
BIOGRAPHY: "THE LEGEND OF THE BREDE GIANT" - [An interesting tale fromthe16th Century is of Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, a giant of a man who was saidto eat a child every night for supper, and who could not be killed bymetal, but only by wooden weapons. It is believed that this story wasspread by the smugglers in the area, to scare away the curious from BredePlace, which was one of their bases. These stories were probablynotdeserved, it seems all the men so ac cused were Catholics duringtheReformation. Sussex was noted for supporting the Reformation and theParlimentarian movement, so those who clung to their faith were not toopopular. The story ends with a very drunken Sir Goddard being killedwitha wooden saw at Groaning Bridge at Stubb's Lane, between the Churchand Brede Place. ]
BIOGRAPHY: "Tiring, perhaps, of his usual diet of saddle of mutton, haunch of venison and roas ted ox, Sir Goddard Oxenbridge, an early 18th.century occupant of Brede Park, decided one day to tickle his jaded palate withan exquisite new sensation; that day one of the village children disappeared. Apparently the new dish pleased the squire and there after children were reported missing from all parts of Sussex.
Naturally the servants at Brede Park became aware of their master's nasty eating habits and soon it was common knowledge inthelocality; but because Sir Goddard was, outwardly, a pious and God-fearingman of gentle birth, the gentry and clergy discounted therumours as the wicked gossip of envious peasants. Thus the bereaved parents had little chance of retribution.So it was left to the actualvictims, the children,to counter the threat to their lives. Secretly, all the children of Sussex got together and made a plan. At the entrance to Brede Park they placed a large barrel of mead, then lay in wait for thesquire.
Foraying out in search of his supper, Sir Goddard chanced uponthe barrel and being partial to a drop of good Sussex mead, he quaffed the lot and collapsed in a stupor in the middle of the bridge outside the park gates. Immediately the children emerged from the shrubbery,dragging with them a huge wooden saw. The East Sussex childrentook one end and the West Sussex children the other, and promptly theysawed the squire in half. They do say, over in Brede, that the child-eating ogre's ghost, in the form of a sawn tree trunk, still haunts Brede Park and the nearby Groaning Bridge."
m. Anna Fiennes; father of Robert who m. Alice Fogge. [Holly Forrest Tamer]
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