Domesday Landholders (Pagan)
Chris Phillips
> I've just begun the task of looking for information on the Domesday
> Landholder, Payne (or Pagan).
Keats-Rohan's "Domesday People I" lists a pageful of Domesday tenants called
Pagan/Pagen. As most of them lack any other description, it's difficult to
know whether they are all different men or not.
The first is the tenant of Harduin de Scalariis, called Harduin's dapifer
(steward) in the Inquisitio Eliensis, and considered by K-R to have perhaps
been related to Harduin. She notes that a Juliana, widow of Robert fitz Payn
in 1214 sought dower in Conington, Cambridgeshire, one of Pagan's Domesday
holdings,
against Geoffrey de Sackville.
The second she calls "Pagan de Capellis" (she implies he may have come from
La Chapelle-Haute-Grue, in Calvados), a Suffolk tenant of Richard de Clare;
later succeeded by Alberic de Capellis.
The others listed are just called Pagan or Pagen, and are tenants of (i)
Gilbert de Bretevile (ii) (succeeded in 1166 by Ralph and Walter Mansel;
Buckinghamshire) William fitz Ansculf of Picquigny (iii) (father of Robert;
Northamptonshire) William Peverel (iv) Swein of Essex (v) Roger Bigod (vi)
(probably ancestor of the Westbury family) Roger de Ivry (vii) Earl Hugh of
Chester (viii) (Sussex) earl Roger of Shrewsbury.
Chris Phillips