COEL Database: Continental Origins of English Landholders, 1066-1166

UKDA study number:5687

Principal Investigators

Keats-Rohan, K.
Thornton, D.
University of Oxford. Linacre College
Wood, R.
Datacraft Development Company

Sponsor

Leverhulme Trust

Distributed by

UK Data Archive, University of Essex, Colchester.

November 2007

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Keats-Rohan, K., Wood, R. and Thornton, D., COEL Database: Continental Origins of English Landholders, 1066-1166 [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Archive [distributor], November 2007. SN: 5687, http://dx.doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-5687-1.

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Katharine Keats-Rohan, Raymond Wood and David Thornton

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5687 . COEL Database: Continental Origins of English Landholders, 1066-1166

Depositor:

Keats-Rohan, K. , University of Oxford. Linacre College

Principal Investigators:

Keats-Rohan, K. , University of Oxford. Linacre College

Wood, R. , Datacraft Development Company

Thornton, D. , University of Oxford. Linacre College

Sponsor:

Leverhulme Trust

Other Acknowledgements:

John Lyttelton Lloyd funded the development of the database.

Abstract:

The aim of the research project was to determine the continental origins of those who held land or other benefits of the king in England after the Norman Conquest, in order to understand the phenomenon of the Conquest as a continental alliance, and, by tracing the descent of those holdings thereafter, to understand the nature of any continuity or discontinuity. Tracing origins was largely done by research in French archives. The subjects of the inquiry are all evidenced in the surviving English administrative records of the period under study, 1066 to 1166, many of them abbreviated or otherwise elliptical fiscal records. Many of them were obscure persons who had attracted little, if any, attention from historians. This research identified the different persons in these lists and tried to place them in the larger groups, familial and tenurial, to which they belonged. The work is thus a prosopography providing a key to the vast mass of name records in the surviving administrative texts, often based on numerous private charters and chronicles surviving from the period.

Main Topics:

Prosopography of persons occurring in English public and private documents of the post Conquest period, 1066 to 1166, tracing the descent of fees from Domesday Book to the early to mid thirteenth century. Contains biographical notices for the majority of 12,000 identified persons, and genealogical files and tables. Full original texts of all charter and survey material is included, and tabulated versions of data from Domesday Book and the Pipe Rolls.

Coverage:

Time Period Covered: 1066 - 1242
Dates of Fieldwork: 1995;
Date digital resource created
Country: England
Spatial Units: No spatial unit
Kind of Data: Textual data; Numeric data; Alpha/numeric data

Universe Sampled:

Location of Units of Observation: National
Population: Persons holding land and other benefits of the King in Anglo-Norman England, 1066 - 1242

Methodology:

Time Dimensions: Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Sampling Procedures: No sampling (total universe)
Method of Data Collection: Transcription of existing materials; Compilation or synthesis of existing material
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Weighting: No weighting used

Language(s) of Written Materials:

Study Description: Latin, English, French
Study Documentation: English

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Date of First Release:

1 November 2007

Copyright:

Katharine Keats-Rohan, Raymond Wood and David Thornton

File last updated:

31 October 2011