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Personal data Godric Dapifer , of Gooderstone & Little Melton 

• He was born about 1055 in Normandy, France.
• He died after 1087 in Gooderstone, Swaffham, Norfolk, England.Source 1
• This information was last updated on April 5, 2023.

Household of Godric Dapifer , of Gooderstone & Little Melton

He had a relationship with Ingrid FitzEdwin.

Child(ren):

1. Miss Godric  ± 1083-> 1113 

Notes about Godric Dapifer , of Gooderstone & Little Melton

(h) The Inquest as to Knights Fees in 1212 found that Willelmus de MonteCaniso tenuit Gurtreston . . . et fruit quondam dominicum Regis, et datafuit antecessoribus predicti Willemi per Henricum Regem avum domini Regis(a not uncommon description of Henry I in official records of the time ofKing John). This seems to purport rather that land, which had beenGodric's, passed to the Munchensy family than that Hubert, son of Godric,who witnessed a lease to his brother Ralph, 1134-40, assumed the name ofMunchensy as has been supposed. Godric dapifer - ie. steward - held in1086 many lands in Norfolk and Suffolk both in fee of the Crown and asthe King's steward, including Gooderstone (Gurreston), Wramplingham,Winfarthing and Rockland; Bergh and Appleton he held of the Bishop ofEly, and had a lease of Little Melton from the abbey of St Benet Hulme;in Essex he was in charge of Great Sampford for the King. He was aprominent figure in East Anglia already in 1080, and in 1087 and laterwas sheriff of Norfolk and (or) Suffolk. In many of his Domesdayholdings his predecessor in 1066 had been Edwin, Teinus dominicus regisEdwardi, who, with his wife Ingrid, had given Little Melton to St Benet.The fact of Godric's thus succeeding to the lands of Edwin, coupled withthe name of his wife - also Ingrid - suggests that Godric had married thedaughter of the pre-Conquest holder. Godric and his wife also gaveLittle Melton to St Benet; and Ralph, son of Godric, and his wifeLetseline, and, after his death, his widow Basile, held leases of thatmanor from the abbey for their lives. The lease of Basile, interpretedin the terms of that to Ralph, proves that he must have dsp. Thecartulary also records the names of Ralph's brother Eudo and nephewLisewy. [Complete Peerage IX:411 note (h)]

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