Adam de Bavent

Dates: fl. 1212

Holder of Bavant's Hall in Eyke, Suffolk, in 1212.

Adam de Clifton

Adam de Clifton's line

Adam de Cunteville

Dates: fl. 12th century

A twelfth-century landholder recorded in a royal fine concerning a knight's fee in Alvoceston or Alfoxton. The same source associates him by marriage with Amelia de Stringston, but…

Adam de Glodwick

Adam de Port, Member of the de Port baronial family

Dates: floruit 1173; dates of birth and death uncertain

Adam de Port was a member of the Norman de Port family and is directly connected with Abbotstone by a 1173 loan transaction secured on the estate's stock.

Adam de Port, Member of the de Port baronial family

Dates: floruit 1173-1203; dates of birth and death uncertain

Adam de Port is recorded in early thirteenth-century litigation and conveyancing involving Abbotstone property, including a mill and messuages.

Adam Everingham

Adam Felton

Dates: died circa 1697

Eldest son of Sir Henry Felton, 2nd Baronet, and holder of Mitchells for approximately seven years after his father's death.

Adam Fitz-Simon

Dates: unknown

A medieval landholder identified by the Great Wakering historical account as the proprietor associated with Adam's Fee, also called Aldermans. No reliable dates or fuller biography specific to…

Adam Hulton of Over Hulton

Adam le Lorymer and Agnes le Lorymer, Adam le Lorymer was of Leominster

Dates: active 1352-1358

A married couple who received Stockholt Barnes from John Holt in 1352.

Adam Lutley

Dates: buried 1590

Shropshire landholder whose will refers to a manor or manor-related holding in Abdon.

Adam son of Swein

Dates: died about 1159

A twelfth-century landholder associated with royal grants of vills in Cumberland. The sources identify him as the probable early holder of Ainstable, though the particular vill is not…

Admer Atule, Thegn

Dates: fl. reign of Edward the Confessor

A thegn who held Berkhampstead before the Norman Conquest, during the reign of Edward the Confessor.

Adolphus Maskell

Dates: died 1937

Adrian Fortescue, Knight, courtier and landowner

Dates: c. 1476–1539

English courtier and landowner who was executed in 1539 during the reign of Henry VIII.

Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia

Dates: died 1062

Anglo-Saxon earl and son of Leofric, Earl of Mercia. He held extensive estates in Mercia before the Norman Conquest.

Ælfrun of Afflington

Dates: floruit 1066

A woman recorded in the Domesday comparison as holding Afflington in 1066. The available evidence does not securely identify her wider family, status or later life.

Ælfwine, abbot of Buckfast

Dates: Recorded as holder in 1066; other dates not established in the source used

Ælfwine was the abbot of Buckfast identified in the Domesday material as holding Abbots Ash in 1066. The available source does not securely establish further biographical details relevant…

Aelfwynn, Wife of Ordwulf, donor in the late-tenth-century endowment tradition of Tavistock Abbey.

Dates: fl. late tenth century

Aelfwynn is identified in the surviving historical tradition as the wife of Ordwulf and donor of several North Devon estates to Tavistock Abbey, including Hame, identified with Abbotsham.

Æthelnoth Cild, Pre-Conquest English landholder, Domesday holder of Alciston

Dates: Active as holder of Alciston in 1066

Æthelnoth Cild was an English landholder recorded in Domesday-related evidence as holding the large Sussex manor of Alciston in 1066. PASE discusses the possibility that he was the…

Æthelstan, King of the English, reigned 924–939, King of the Anglo-Saxons, later styled King of the English, 924–939

Dates: c. 894–939

Anglo-Saxon king whose reign consolidated the kingdom of England. The registry records his grant of land at North Stoneham in 932.

Aethelstan, son of Aethelred II