Herluin (Hunstanton) de Hunstanton (abt. 1038 - 1086)

Born about 1038 in Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died 1086 at about age 48 in Norfolk, England

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Biography

This profile is primarily about a man associated with Norfolk and Suffolk who had a son named Ralph mentioned in Domesday book in 1086.

Keats-Rohan suggests that this Herluin is the same as Herluin fitz Ivo (also known as Herluin of Panworth) who also appeared in Domesday book.

• https://opendomesday.org/name/herlewin-son-of-ivo/
• https://domesday.pase.ac.uk/Domesday?op=5&personkey=49972

This would mean that the father of Herluin would be named Ivo, and that Herlewin was probably a brother of Rainald or Reginald fitz Ivo, who is overlord to a Herluin fitz Ivo in several places in the Domesday Book..^[1]

Douglas, in his book of Bury-related documents, shows Reginald was also referred as "fitz Levohi" or fitz "Levoni".^[2]

Research notes

Secondarily, there was a father and son named Herluin and Ralph associated with the London area in roughly the same period. Potentially these should be given a different profiles.

Round, in his work on Geoffrey de Mandeville, drew attention to a London family involving both Normans and Ango-Saxons, also with a Herlewin and a son and heir named Ralph. He adds more children of Herlewin: William (living 1130), Herlewin (living 1130), and Ingenolda, the wife of a sheriff of London named Roger. ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Herluin Filius Ivo is in Domesday Descendants p.252. Radulf Filius Herluini is p.340. Rainald Filius Iuonis is p.349.
2. ↑ http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015040789920;view=1up;seq=98
3. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/geoffreydemande00roungoog#page/n337/mode/1up