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Thorsten 38

Name

Summary

Thorsten 38 was a sokeman of Ely abbey in south-west Norfolk, with a holding of unknown size perhaps 1 bovate in extent.

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. 8,89	Vill Didlington	DB Spelling Torstinus	Holder 1066 Thorsten 'of Didlington'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Warenne	1086 Subtenant Thorsten	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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. 8,89	Vill Didlington	DB Spelling Torstinus	Holder 1066 Thorsten 'of Didlington'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Warenne	1086 Subtenant Thorsten	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

In 1066 the 4 carucates of Didlington in south-west Norfolk were divided among 32 free men who remained tenants under William de Warenne in 1086. Not mentioned in LDB but recorded in IE was the fact that Ely abbey had sake and soke and commendation over one of them, Thorsten by name (nomine Torstini) (IE: 140). Whether each of the 32 had exactly the 1 bovate that an equal division of the 4 carucates implies is uncertain. Didlington stands on the river Wissey amid the sandy soils of the Norfolk Breckland, nearly 25 miles across the Fens from Ely. Ely’s sokeman here was clearly not the same Thorsten as at any of the other places in East Anglia where the name occurs. In particular, Thetford is only 12 miles away, but the rich burgess Thorsten of Thetford (Thorsten 37) cannot conceivably have been Ely’s Breckland sokeman.

Bibliography

IE: Inquisitio Eliensis, in Inqusitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis, nunc primum e manuscripto unico in Bibliotheca Cottoniana asservato typis mandata, subjicitur Inquisitio Eliensis, ed. N. E. S. A. Hamilton (London: John Murray for the Royal Society of Literature, 1876), 97–195