Beginning of Domesday Book for Cornwall; the first few lines list: I. Rex Willelmus; II. Episcopus de Execestre; III. Ecclesia de Tavestoch; IIII. Ecclesiae aliquorum sanctorum; V. Comes Moritoniensis; VI. Judhail de Totenais; VII. Goscelmus

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

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