Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Domesday Book (/ ˈ d uː m z d eɪ / DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of King William the Conqueror. [1]
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 of 1086 shows William holding from the Crown around one-hundred estates in twelve counties. Many of these were estates formerly held by King Harold Godwinsson, Lady Godiva, Earl Algar and Ulwin, a thegn based in the Midlands. [3] William was either Lord, or tenant-in-chief. List of land held by William Fitz Ansculf in 1086:
William was a son of Rodulf or Ralph de Warenne [1] and Emma and reported to have descended from a sibling of Duchess Gunnor, wife of Duke Richard I.Chronicler Robert of Torigni reported, in his additions to the Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, that William de Warenne and Anglo-Norman baron Roger de Mortimer were both sons of an unnamed niece of Gunnor.
The Cambridge Inquisition – Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis or ICC – is one of the most important of the satellite surveys relating to the Domesday Book of 1086.. It not only offers fuller information than the latter, but has also played an important and ongoing role in the debates over the making of the Domesday Book/Survey.
The two-volume Return of Owners of Land, 1873 is a survey of land ownership in the United Kingdom.It was the first complete picture of the distribution of land ownership in Great Britain [1] since the Domesday Book of 1086, thus the 1873 Return is sometimes called the "Modern Domesday", [2] and in Ireland since the Down Survey of 1655-1656.
In addition to his ecclesiastical duties, he served as a commissioner for the Domesday Book of 1086. He was also a councillor and advisor to both King William I and his son, King William II, known as William Rufus. Following William Rufus' accession to the throne in 1087, St-Calais is considered by scholars to have been the new king's chief ...
The name Havering is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Haueringas" and means 'the settlement of the family or followers of a man called Hæfer', an ancient folk name. [2] From the 13th century the suffix -atte-Bower was added and means 'at the royal residence'. [2]