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Goldstan 6
Goldstan ‘of Cornilo’ (Kent), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
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Summary
Goldstan 6 shared with Swithgar 1 a small estate in east Kent TRE assessed at 1 sulung and with a value of £4; the estate belonged to St Martin’s minster at Dover, and the men may have been secular canons of that church.Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB
List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB
Holder 1066
| Shire | Phil. ref. | Vill | DB Spelling | Holder 1066 | Lord 1066 | Tenant-in-Chief 1086 | 1086 Subtenant | Fiscal Value | 1066 Value | 1086 Value | Conf. | Show on Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | M11 | St Margaret's at Cliffe | Goldstan | Goldstan 'of Cornilo' | unnamed canons of Dover | Unnamed canons of Dover in 1086 | Robert Trublet | 1.00 | 2.00 | 1.50 | B | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
Goldstan 6’s little estate cannot be identified precisely but was probably an estate belonging to St Martin’s minster at Dover and located in Cornilo Hundred in east Kent. The entries relating to this and the preceding holding in DB appears slightly confused, but comparison with the corresponding entry in the Exerpta (IA: 27-8) suggests that the two holdings formed a single estate of 1 sulung that constituted a prebend of the minster TRE and certainly did so in 1086. This land was shared by Swithgar 1 (omitted from the DB entries) and Goldstan TRE and was located in the hundreds of Bewsbury and Cornilo, with Goldstan’s share lying in the latter according to the DB version. However, given that the Robertus Trublet who held the prebend in 1086 according to the Excerpta entry is rendered as Turbatus and isdem Robertus respectively in the two corresponding DB entries, no certainty is possible.St Martin’s, Dover, was an originally royal minster of secular canons until reformed and refounded in the early twelfth century (Page 1926: 133). The men’s holding was regarded as a prebend of the minster in 1086 and was very probably so TRE. It is therefore likely, but is not explicitly stated in either DB or the Excerpta, that Goldstan and Swithgar were canons of St Martin’s.
Goldstan 6’s estate was too small and too far distant for any connection with other people of that name to be considered.
Bibliography
IA: An Eleventh-Century Inquisition of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, ed. Adolphus Ballard, British Academy Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales 4 (2) (London, 1920)
Page 1926: A History of the County of Kent: Volume 2, ed. W. Page (London, 1926)