Cornwall Domesday Book tenants-in-chief explained

The Domesday Book of 1086 lists in the following order the tenants-in-chief in Cornwall of King William the Conqueror:

• Osbern FitzOsbern (died 1103), Bishop of Exeter
• Tavistock Church, Devon
• The churches of various saints
  • St Michael's Church
  • Canons of St Stephen's
  • St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
  • Canons of St Achebran's
  • Canons of Probus
  • Canons of St Carantoc's
  • Canons of St Piran's
  • Canons of St Buryan's
  • Clergy of St Neot
• Robert, Count of Mortain (died 1090), half-brother of the king
• Juhel de Totnes (died 1123/30), feudal baron of Totnes
• Gotshelm, brother of Walter de Claville

Sources

• Thorn, Caroline & Frank, (eds.) Domesday Book, (Morris, John, gen. ed.) Vol. 10, Cornwall, Chichester: Phillimore, 1979