Eustace the sheriff of Huntingdon, tenant-in-chief in Domesday Book
Dates: Active in the late eleventh century; exact dates not established here
Biography
A royal official and Domesday tenant-in-chief who held the Alconbury Weston estate in 1086. The available evidence does not establish that he held the later consolidated manor under the same legal form.
Notes / Sources
Do not equate his Domesday tenant-in-chief status automatically with later freehold lordship.
Research sources:
- The National Archives, Great Domesday Book, E 31/2/2/77, Place name: Alconbury Weston, Huntingdonshire, folio 206r, dated 1086; corroborated by the Open Domesday entry for Alconbury Weston. — https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7307068
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