Beorhtstan 18

Beorhtstan father of Leofstan, d. by 1086
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Name

Beorhtstan
Beorhtstan 17

Summary

Beorhtstan 18 was the father of Leofstan, a free peasant holding 7½ acres on the Bury St Edmunds manor of Rougham (Suff.) in 1086.

Profile

Leofstan, a free peasant holding 7½ acres on the Bury St Edmunds manor of Rougham (Suff.) in 1086, was the son of a Beorhtstan who can be presumed to have been dead by the date of the survey since he does not appear in the survey himself (FBB: 28).

Bibliography


FBB: ‘The Feudal Book of Baldwin, abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 1065–1098, contained in the Black Book of the abbey, MS. Mm. iv. 19, fols. 124–43b. (Cambridge University Library)’, in Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas, British Academy Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales, 8 (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1932), 1–44