Ancestral Glimpses » Thorold de Lincoln Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Turold (± 1030-< 1079)

Personal data Thorold de Lincoln Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Turold 

• He was born about 1030 in Warwickshire, or Spalding, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND.
• He died before 1079 in Spalding, Lincolnshire, ENGLAND.
• This information was last updated on September 17, 2017.

Household of Thorold de Lincoln Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Turold

He is married to Alvarissa de Bucknall.

They got married about 1065 at Lincolnshire, ENGLAND.

Child(ren):

1. Lucy Thoroldsdottir  1074-± 1136 

Notes about Thorold de Lincoln Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Turold

Thorold/Turold of Bucknall, Lincolnshire, Earl of Leicester and Sheriff of Lincoln.
Thorold, who may or may not be identical with a Thorold of Bucknall (both names are variants of the Scandinavian Thorvaldr); In the time of Ethelred's son, St Edward the Confessor, who reigned from 1042 to 1066.
He was evidenced in Domesday Book as a benefactor of Crowland Abbey, to which he gave a parcel of land at Bucknell. (The Historia Croylandensis does not mention Godgifu, but says that Thorold gave not Spalding but Bucknall to Crowland.) He was cognatus, or cousin, of Earl Algar Aelfgar of Mercia, son of Lady Godiva.
He md. dau. of Willelm Malet, seigneur de Graville and Elise Crespin. Turold gave further land in Bucknell to the abbey of St Nicholas bef. 1079 at Angers.
He died bef. 1079.

Citations
K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Parentage of Countess Lucy". K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, "Parentage of Countess Lucy". A spurious charter of Crowland Abbey made Turold of Bucknall (the Sheriff) the founder of the priory of Spalding as a cell of Crowland. It also called Turold brother of Godiva countess of Mercia, but subsequently described Godiva's son Earl Algar as Turold's cognatus (cousin).. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, Iuo Tillebois, p. 283.
Turold of Bucknell, Sheriff of Lincoln1 d. bef. 1079

or Turold of Bucknell, Sheriff of Lincoln was related to Lucy "the Countess" of Lincoln; per the Peterborough Chronicle and the Pseudo-Ingulf's Chronicle of Crowland, the dau. of Algar and niece or great-niece of Turold.
Turold of Bucknell, Sheriff of Lincoln was evidenced in Domesday Book as a benefactor of Crowland Abbey, to which he gave a parcel of land at Bucknell. He was cognatus, or cousin, of Earl Algar of Mercia, son of Lady Godiva. He md. N. N. Malet, dau. of Willelm Malet, seigneur de Graville and Elise Crespin. Turold of Bucknell, Sheriff of Lincoln gave further land in Bucknell to the abbey of St Nicholas bef. 1079 at Angers.[1]

Sources:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/ Keats-Rohan, K. S. B., Antecessor Noster: The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain, Prosopon, No. 2 (May 1995), p. 1, Linacre College.
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 (7th ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992.), 176A-2, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 974 W426 1992.
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999.), p. 283, Los Angeles Public Library, Gen 942.02 K25. Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, pp. 1137-8.

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