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Thorsten 42

Name

Summary

Thorsten 42 was a small landowner in south Nottinghamshire. His two manors were both at places shared with other landowners; if their shares were equal, Thorsten had 6 bovates worth 22s. 8d.

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 Nottinghamshire	Phil. ref. 9,101	Vill East Bridgford	DB Spelling Turstan	Holder 1066 Thorsten 'of Oxton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Bully	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.05	Confidence E	Map
Shire Nottinghamshire	Phil. ref. 9,76	Vill Oxton	DB Spelling Turstan	Holder 1066 Thorsten 'of Oxton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Bully	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The Nottinghamshire Thorstens are difficult to distinguish with certainty, though the isolation of this group from other Thorstens and the small size of all five holdings make it clear that none of them held land outside the shire. All five estates passed after the Conquest to Roger de Bully, but that does not help with identification, since Roger’s fief in Nottinghamshire was geographical, not antecessorial, based on acquiring the ‘leftovers’ of all the smaller estates in the four wapentakes of Oswaldbeck, Bassetlaw, Thurgarton, and Lythe not assigned to other Normans (Fleming 1991: 148–9, 163).

The two manors closest to one another were East Bridgford, on the Trent 9 miles downstream from Nottingham, and Oxton, on higher land 6 miles north-west. Besides their proximity, a man with the rare name Odincar also had property in both places. At Oxton he and Thorsten had two manors of 1 carucate worth 40s. At East Bridgford Thorsten’s holding was smaller, one of three manors assessed together at 6 bovates, but Odincar’s comprised the greater part of the vill, 4 carucates (Notts. 9:100). Thorsten’s partners at East Bridgford, Roskil and Justen, held only there.

Bibliography

Fleming 1991: Robin Fleming, Kings and Lords in Conquest England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)