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Thorsten 39

Name

Summary

Thorsten 39 was a small landowner in west Norfolk with 100 acres worth 12s. He was commended to a neighbouring lord, Thorketil.

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
Shire Norfolk	Phil. ref. 66,16	Vill Wallington	DB Spelling Turstinus	Holder 1066 Thorsten 'of Wallington'	Lord 1066 Thorkil	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hermer de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.83	1066 Value 0.60	1086 Value 0.60	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The larger of two holdings in the small vill of Wallington, on the edge of the marshlands of west Norfolk, was 100 fiscal acres worth 12s. which belonged TRE to the free man Thorsten (Turstinus liber homo). It was listed in LDB among the illegal annexations made by Hermer de Ferrers, illegal because ‘In this [he had] nothing except the commendation’ (In hoc nisi commendatio). This statement can only be understood as meaning that Hermer’s regular antecessor Thorketil was the commended lord of Thorsten but had no rights over Thorsten’s land at Wallington, and that Hermer had overstepped what was rightfully his by annexing Thorketil’s men, including Thorsten. Thorketil’s nearest manor to Wallington was immediately to the west at Thorpland (Norf. 13:6).

Wallington is only some 12 miles from another Norfolk Thorsten, but there are no grounds for identifying the substantial free man at Wallington with Ely abbey’s small sokeman at Didlington (Thorsten 38).