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Chaworth: the Anglicized form of Chaurtes, Chaurcis, or Cadurcis; a na m e " d e r ived," says Camden, "from the Cadurci in France ," and dating fr o m t h e C o nquest in this country. Patric de Cadurcis, of Little Brittany , w h o w a s s eated in Gloucestershire, and a benefacto r of Gloucester Ab be y i n t h e l atter years of the Conqueror's reign, founded a powerful fa m il y o f L o rds Marcher, that bore rule on the Welsh frontier up to the c l o s e o f t he fourteenth century. Pain, called by Dugdale Patric's grands o n ( t h o ugh, as he was living in 1217, a hundred and thirty years after t h e d e a t h of the Conqueror, he must have been a far more remote descenda n t ) , h e ld 12 knight's fees in Montgomery, and acquired Bridgewater Cast l e i n S o m ersetshire, with other estates, through his wife Gundred de la F e r t e , w hose mother had been the sister and co-heir of the last William d e B r i w e re.
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Abt 1183 - Bef 1237 (< 54 years)