Baudri or Baldric of Lindsey, or de Bocquencé, was a son of Baldric "the German" (teutonicus) who arrived in Normandy before 1026.[1]
Baldric (the son) apparently died by about 1091-1101, because his wife Billehildis made a grant in France in that period.[2][3] Billehildis the wife of Baldric also made a grant of Cheshire lands (Peckforton) to St Werburgh in Cheshire "Billeheld uxor Baldrici [gave] Pecfortunam", thus confirming that Baldric the tenant of the Earl of Cheshire, was the same as Baldric of Bocquencé.[4]
In England, George Sitwell proposed, and Keats-Rohan among others accepts, that Baldwin had a son Richard who was holding Hemingby in Lincolnshire in 1115/1118 when the Lindsey survey was compiled. This had been held by a Baldric in 1086 for Domesday Book. The identity of these Baldrics seems confirmed because that Baldric gave land to Saint-Evroult in Farforth and Oxcomb. This was confirmed by Count Ranulf of Chester about 1121-1129, and that was witnessed by Baldric's son named Richard.[5][2][6]
In 1086, when Domesday Book was made, Baldric therefore apparently held several lands in Lincolnshire under Hugh, the earl of Chester:
In a reply to a criticism by J. H. Round, doubting that Baldric of Lindsey and Cheshire were the same person, Stilwell pointed out that the Baldric in Lincolnshire and the Baldric of Cheshire and Bocquence (the husband of Billeheldis), were not only both tenants of the Earl of Cheshire, but also both families who made grants to Saint-Evroult.[7]
Two sons are named in the French grant of Billehildis:[2]
Perhaps Baldric of Lindsey's son Richard, who as Round pointed out is not mentioned by Billehildis, had a different mother?
Although Keats-Rohan says Baldric of Lindsey was the same as Baldric de Bosco, her own source, Judith Green, says these two men must be distinguished, and suggests that Baldric de Bosco was a son of Nicholas of Basqueville, and therefore a nephew of Baldric of Lindsey.[9]
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Categories: Estimated Birth Date | Domesday Book
1.A birth date should not be more than 60 years before or after a sibling's birth date.
We know only with some likely certainty, that Baldric died bef. 1053 ... some of his children's b. dates are yet unknown and currently show as being b. with this same date (bef. 1053) ...