Helgot (Castello) de Castello

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Biography

Helgot's land holdings in the 1086 Domesday book are near the Welsh border, mainly in Shropshire, and are the basis of the feudal barony of Holgate or Holdgate.^[1]

In 1086 he held his lands not directly from the king, but mainly from Roger de Montgomery, the Earl of Shrewsbury.

• https://opendomesday.org/name/helgot-of-holdgate/
• https://domesday.pase.ac.uk/Domesday?op=5&personkey=48030

Keats-Rohan says that he was first succeeded by a son named Eutrop, and then by a younger son Herbert.^[2]

Research notes

It is not clear why the PASE website seems to connect Helgot to Furches, but it presumably means that there is a belief that Helgot was related to another his contemporary in Shropshire, Herbert de Furches (Keats-Rohan, p.249).

The same understanding appears in a 2017 thesis, but the references to Eyton and Wightman do not seem to justify an equation of Helgot's son Herbert with Herbert of Furches who was a Lacy tenant, and had different heirs.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Sanders, English Baronies, p.28
2. ↑ Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.246
3. ↑ Moore, J. (2017). The Norman aristocracy in the long eleventh century: three case studies [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford. p.380 https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8982f540-1890-4469-ae16-3c78c1ecac1e/files/m4bd57fe1f072ea28401ddbcc4f58a477

• Eyton, Antiquities of Shropshire, Vol.4, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175035527541?urlappend=%3Bseq=72
• Eyton, 'Pedigree of the Baronial Houses of Mauduit', Herald and Genealogist, vii. 385–94 https://archive.org/details/heraldgenealogis07nich/page/385