GURDON

The Seigneurie of Gourdon near Cahors, on the borders of Perigord, was the patrimony of this Norman adventurer. His descendant, Sir Adam de Gurdon, Knt., living temp. Henry III., was in that monarch's reign Bailiff of Alton : but joining the Mountford faction, he suffered outlawry, which was not removed until the following reign, when Sir Adam received the custody of the forest of Wolmer. From this celebrated knight, whose lands at Selborne, Hants, known still as Gurdon manor, belong to Magdalen College, Oxford, spring the GURDONS of ASSINGTON, co. Suffolk, and the GURDONS of LETTON, co. Norfolk. The former estate was purchased from Sir Miles Corbet, by Robert Gurdon, Esq., in the 16th century, and the latter acquired by his son, John Gurdon, Esq., in marriage with Amy; daughter and heir of William Brampton, Esq.

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey Roll).