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Devon Domesday Book tenants in chief

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Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists in the following order the tenants-in-chief in Devonshire of King William the Conqueror:

  • Osbern FitzOsbern (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter
  • Geoffrey de Montbray (died 1093), Bishop of Coutances
  • Glastonbury Church, Somerset
  • Tavistock Church, Devon
  • Buckfast Church, Devon
  • Horton Church, Dorset
  • Cranborne Church, Dorset
  • Battle Church, Sussex
  • St Mary's Church, Rouen, Normandy
  • Mont Saint-Michel Church, Normandy
  • St Stephen's Church, Caen, Normandy
  • Holy Trinity Church, Caen
  • Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester (died 1101)
  • Robert, Count of Mortain (died 1090), half-brother of the king
  • Baldwin de Moels (died 1090), Sheriff of Devon, feudal baron of Okehampton,
  • Juhel de Totnes (died 1123/30), feudal baron of Totnes, Devon
  • William de Mohun (died post 1090), feudal baron of Dunster, Somerset
  • William Cheever, (Latinised to Capra, "she-goat"), feudal baron of Bradninch, Devon. He was brother of Ralph de Pomeroy (see below), feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy Devon
  • William de Falaise, feudal baron of Stogursey, Somerset
  • William de Poilley, whose lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Plympton
  • William II, Count of Eu (died 1097)
  • Walter of Douai (died c. 1107), Feudal baron of Bampton, Devon
  • Walter de Claville; his lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Gloucester
  • Gotshelm, brother of Walter de Claville; his lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Gloucester
  • Richard fitz Gilbert (died c. 1090), elder brother of Baldwin de Moels, Sheriff of Devon, feudal baron of Okehampton,
  • Roger de Busli (died c. 1099)
  • Robert of Aumale (Latinised to de Albemarle); his lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Plympton
  • Robert Bastard, whose lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Plympton
  • Richard Fitz Turold (died post 1103-6) (alias fitzThorold, fitzTurolf), whose lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Cardinham, Cornwall
  • Ralph de Limesy, most of his Devon manors passed to the Feudal barony of Bradninch
  • Ralph Pagnell
  • Ralph de Feugeres
  • Ralph de Pomeroy, feudal baron of Berry Pomeroy
  • Roald Dubbed, whose lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Plympton
  • Theobald FitzBerner, whose lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Great Torrington. He was the father-in-law of Odo FitzGamelin
  • Turstin FitzRolf, Feudal baron of North Cadbury, Somerset
  • Alfred of Spain
  • Alfred the Breton
  • Ansger
  • Aiulf
  • Odo FitzGamelin, son-in-law of Theobald FitzBerner. His lands later formed part of the Feudal barony of Great Torrington.
  • Osbern of Sacey
  • The wife of Hervey of Hellean
  • Gerald the Chaplain
  • Gerard
  • Godbold
  • Nicholas
  • Fulchere ("Fulchere the Bowman"), most of his lands later became part of the feudal barony of Plympton
  • Haimeric
  • King's Servants
  • King's Thanes
  • References

    Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief Wikipedia