Thorsten 43

Thorsten ‘of Perlethorpe’ (Notts.), fl. 1066
Male
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Name

Thorsten
Thorsten 42
Thorsten 44

Summary

Thorsten 43 was a small landowner in north Nottinghamshire who held one of two manors together assessed at 10 bovates and worth 40s.

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
Nottinghamshire 9,37 Perlethorpe Turstan Thorsten 'of Perlethorpe' - Roger de Bully Richard 'the man of Roger de Bully' 0.63 1.00 0.65 E Map
Nottinghamshire 9,38 Gleadthorpe - Thorsten 'of Perlethorpe' - Roger de Bully Richard 'the man of Roger de Bully' 0.25 0.00 0.00 E Map
Totals

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).

Perlethorpe stands on a tributary of the Idle and is only 8 miles from Ordsall; it is conceivable that the landowner at Perlethorpe was one or other of the two Thorstens at Ordsall (Thorsten 40 and Thorsten 41), but the small size of the holdings concerned tells against the identification.

Bibliography


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