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Domesday Book encompasses two independent works (originally in two physical volumes): "Little Domesday" (covering Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex), and "Great Domesday" (covering much of the remainder of England – except for lands in the north that later became Westmorland, Cumberland, Northumberland, and the County Palatine of Durham – and parts of Wales bordering and included within English ...
Domesday Book was an item of great interest to the antiquarian movement of the 18th century. This was the age of the county history, with many accounts of the English shires being published at this time, and Domesday Book, as a property record of early date that happened to be arranged by county, was a major source for the medieval history of all the counties encompassed by the survey.
"The Domesday Book records over 200 manors given to Henry de Ferrers" Henry de Ferrers (died by 1100), magnate and administrator, was a Norman who after the 1066 Norman conquest was awarded extensive lands in England.
Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3. Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115 ...
Shortly after 1066 there were four rapes: Arundel, Lewes, Pevensey and Hastings. [75] By the time of the Domesday Book, William the Conqueror had created the rape of Bramber out of parts of the Arundel and Lewes rapes, so that the Adur estuary could be better defended.
This property produced an annual income of "3 pounds in 1086; 2 pounds 10 shillings in 1066". [4] [5] It is possible that the Hugh fitz Baldric who witnessed a charter of Robert Curthose's in 1089 is the same person as the former sheriff. [1] The Domesday Book records that Walter de Rivere and Guy of Croan were sons-in-law of Hugh. [1]
Domesday Book records Osbern as owning lands adjacent to his father's lands in 1066, while his father was still alive. [ 3 ] Osbern added to the lands he had held in 1066 not only by inheritance from his father, but also from his marriage, from royal gifts, and by enfeoffment from other landholders such as the bishop of Worcester and Roger de ...
Page describing Warwickshire in the Domesday Book of 1086. This sophisticated medieval form of government was handed over to the Normans and was the foundation of further developments. [ 108 ] They kept the framework of government but made changes in the personnel, although at first the new king attempted to keep some natives in office.