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Goldstan 10

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Summary

Goldstan was one of 112 minor tenants on a manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham in 1086.  

Profile

Goldstan 10 is named in FBB (28) among 112 minor tenants on a manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham, 3¾ miles to the east-south-east of Bury, in 1086.  The corresponding DB entry records 90 free men and 11 bordars (and 1 slave) on the non-demesne part of the manor in 1086 but does not include their names.  FBB records Goldstan 10 as holding 15 acres rendering 12d and service in 1086, placing him among the better-off of these minor tenants at Rougham.  The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE and 1086 in DB neither proves nor precludes the possibility that Goldstan 10 already held his land before the Conquest.

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