Robert Malet, Norman baron, tenant-in-chief in Domesday Book
Dates: Died circa 1106
Biography
A Norman landholder who held numerous English estates directly from the Crown after the Conquest, including the principal Aldeburgh Domesday holding.
Notes / Sources
The Aldeburgh entry identifies him as the tenant-in-chief; the source does not establish the later mechanism by which the manor passed to William Martel.
Research sources:
- Open Domesday, Aldeburgh, Domesday Book, Phillimore reference Suffolk 6,130; corroborated by Suffolk Heritage Explorer, Aldeburgh parish history. — https://opendomesday.org/place/TM4656/aldeburgh/
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