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Jean de Gisors

This foundation of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury was to eventually become Portsmouth Cathedral.

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Sometime between 1170 and 1180 he purchased the manor of Buckland, Hampshire from the de Port family.

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One of the first acts ordered by de Gisors in Portsmouth was the donation of land to the Augustinian canons of Southwick Priory so that they could build a chapel "to the glorious honour of the martyr Thomas of Canterbury, one time Archbishop, on (my) land which is called Sudewede, the island of Portsea", Thomas Becket having spent much time in Gisors.

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Much of this original grid pattern is still visible in the Old Portsmouth district of Portsmouth.

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