Tihel Helion

Born [date unknown] in Helléan, Morbihan, Brittany, France

Descendants

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Biography

NOTE 1: The death year is only a very rough indication.

NOTE 2: While it seems very likely that William is the heir of Tihel his predecessor, the exact relationship is not really known. Father is just one simple option.

A Domesday baron from Britanny. His Domesday lands:

• https://opendomesday.org/name/tihel-of-hellean/
• http://domesday.pase.ac.uk/Domesday?op=5&personkey=41896

J.H. Round made a proposal that Tihel, who was referred to as a Breton, and as being from "Herion" (later more commonly Helion was the name used by his successors) was from Helléan neat Pontivy in Brittany.

Sources

• *Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.427.
• Sanders, English Baronies, p.121.
• J.H. Round, "Helion of Helion's Bumpstead", Transactions of ESAH, New Series, vol.8.
• J. H. Round, Rotuli de dominabus et pueris et puellis de XII comitatibus <1185>, p.59.
• Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, p.510.