Hoxne manor in Suffolk

Suffolk

Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, England

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 was mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Survey as a seat of the East Anglian bishops, from around that date being the bishops of Norwich

Bishop of Norwich

The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers most of the County of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. The see is in the City of Norwich where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided...

, a transition from the bishops of Thetford

Bishop of Thetford

The Bishop of Thetford is an episcopal title which takes its name after the market town of Thetford in Norfolk, England. The title was originally used by the Normans in the 11th century, and is presently used by a Church of England suffragan bishop....

. The Domesday name of Hoxne hundred, annexed to the manor, was "Bishop's Hundred". At this point Herbert Losinga took Hoxne as a key location from which to compete with the Abbot of St Edmunds; he rededicated the church at Hoxne to honour Edmund the Martyr

Edmund the Martyr

St Edmund the Martyr was a king of East Anglia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom which today includes the English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.D'Evelyn, Charlotte, and Mill, Anna J., , 1956. Reprinted 1967...

, and kept control of the Hoxne manor house, though himself locating elsewhere.

Bishops Thomas Brunce

Thomas Brunce

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 and Walter Lyhert died there during the 15th century. It was a residential episcopal manor, and probably the site of a bishop's palace.

The manor house still belonged to the Bishop of Norwich, under the name Hoxun Court, during the reign of Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

; it passed to the king in 1535. The manor house site was then occupied by Hoxne Hall; it was seat of the Maynard family, before passing to the Kerrisons, being the seat of the Kerrison Baronets

Kerrison Baronets

The Kerrison Baronetcy, of Hoxne Hall in the County of Suffolk, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 8 August 1821 for the soldier and politician Edward Kerrison. He was succeeded by his son, the second Baronet. He sat as Member of Parliament for Eye...

. Under the later name Oakley Park it lasted until the twentieth century, but was demolished in the period 1920–1930.