Godric or Godric the Steward or Godric dapifer (died c. 1114) was an Englishman around the time of the Norman Conquest.
Godric was a native Englishman who was the dapifer, or steward, of the Earl of East Anglia, Ralph de Gael. Godric may have been a relative of the earl's.[1]
Godric is listed in Domesday Book as administering some royal lands in Norfolk and Suffolk, some of which were lands formerly held by Ralph[1] before the earl's participation in the Revolt of the Earls and subsequent loss of all his English landholdings.[2] Godric is also listed in Domesday Book as holding lands in his own right.[3] Godric was one of only 13 tenants-in-chief who were English listed in Domesday Book.[4]
Godric was married to a woman named Ingreda. The marriage had at least one son, named Ralph. Ingreda may have been the daughter of Edwin, whose lands Godric held in 1086. A further bit of evidence pointing to Edwin being Ingreda's father is that Edwin was married to a woman named Ingreda. Charters of St Benet's Abbey state that Godric's son Ralph had a brother named Eudo and a nephew named Lisewy, but it is not clear how these two individuals were related to Godric.[1]
Huscroft, Richard (2009). The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction. New York: Longman. ISBN1-4058-1155-2.
Huscroft, Richard (2005). Ruling England 1042–1217. London: Pearson/Longman. ISBN0-582-84882-2.
Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Domesday Book. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN0-85115-722-X.
March 05, 2023
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