Ingram de Alfreton

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The manor of Alfreton was given by Wulfric, a noble Saxon, and confirmed by Ethelred II, to Burton abbey. It had again passed into lay hands before the compliation of the Domesday Survey; in which it is described as held by Ingram, under Roger de Busli. This Ingram was the immediate ancestor of Robert Fitz-Ranulph or Fitz-Ralph, Lord of Alfreton, who founded Beauchief Abbey during the reighn of Henry II. His descendants were denominated de Alfreton.

~Magna Britannia; Being a Concise Topographical Account of The Serveral Counties of Great Britain, Vol. V, p. 3