Editing Bretby (section)

==History==
This manor (''Bretebi'') was in the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086. Under the title of "The land of the [[William the Conqueror|King]] (in Derbyshire<ref>The King had a number of manors in [[Derbyshire]]. Besides Bretby and [[Newton Solney]] he had a list that included [[Repton]], [[Milton, Derbyshire|Milton]], [[Wirksworth]], [[Weston-on-Trent]], [[Walton-on-Trent]] and [[Ashbourne, Derbyshire|Ashbourne]].</ref>" it said: <blockquote>In Newton Solney and Bretby [[Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia|Ælfgar]] had seven [[wikt:carucate|carucates]] of land to the [[wikt:geld|geld]]. There is land for six ploughs. There the king has one plough and nineteen [[wikt:villein|villans]] and one [[wikt:bordar|bordar]] with five ploughs. There are {{Cvt|12|acre|m2}} of meadow, woodland pasture two [[League (unit)|leagues]] long and three [[furlong]]s broad. TRE<ref name="tre">TRE in [[Latin]] is ''Tempore Regis Edwardi''. This means in the time of [[Edward the Confessor|King Edward]] before the [[Battle of Hastings]].</ref> as now worth one hundred [[Shilling (English coin)|shillings]].<ref name="Domesday">''Domesday Book: A Complete Translation''. London: Penguin, 2003. {{ISBN|0-14-143994-7}} p.744</ref></blockquote>
[[Image:Bretby Pond.jpg|thumb|left|Bretby ponds are nearby]]
[[Image:Bretbybradbyschool.JPG|thumb|The former Bradby School – 2007]]
In 1209, [[Ranulph de Blondeville, 4th Earl of Chester]] granted the manor of Bretby to [[Stephen de Segrave]]<ref>In 1209.[http://www.south-derbys.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0D71580C-B2E6-4A3E-8A86-3D99B467A7BE/0/BretbyA4complete.pdf PDF South Derbyshire site – Grant of Bretby] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001842/http://www.south-derbys.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0D71580C-B2E6-4A3E-8A86-3D99B467A7BE/0/BretbyA4complete.pdf |date=September 27, 2007 }}, p.1</ref> who built a church and a mansion there. There was also Bretby Castle which was destroyed during the reign of King [[James I of England]] to make way for the construction of [[Bretby Hall]].<ref name=duk/>

In 1585, Thomas Stanhope bought Bretby Hall, which from then on was the home of the [[Earl of Chesterfield|Earls of Chesterfield]]. [[George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon]] sold the property in the 1920s to pay for the [[Tutankhamun]] expedition.