Deprecated: preg_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /home/u626884147/domains/manorialregistry.com/public_html/wp-includes/kses.php on line 2025
Search Menu

Drogo son of Poyntz

Sponsored by William James Dalrymple West, Esq,. Lord of Watlington-West, Norfolk

← Back to Historical People

Drogo son of Poyntz, Tenant-in-chief in Domesday Book

Dates: fl. 11th century

Biography

Norman landholder who held one of the two Alderton holdings directly from the Crown in 1086.

Notes / Sources

He is also rendered in the sources as Drogo FitzPoyntz or Drogo son of Poynz.

Research sources:
- Domesday Book, Wiltshire 49,3, as transcribed by Open Domesday; corroborated by Tony Pratt, The Manor of Alderton, 3rd ed., pp. 9-11. — https://opendomesday.org/place/ST8382/alderton/

Corrections / Challenges

Sign in to challenge or submit evidence against a recorded assertion.