Although domesday book, the most complete survey of any medieval landed. The world of domesday exhibition depicts life in 11th century england. Find out how to search for your town or village, and how to access images of domesday along with an english translation, using our research guide. The majority of these still exist in some form today. Pase the prosopography of anglosaxon england, a database of the inhabitants of england from the late 6th to the late 11th century, including information from the domesday book. Domesday book and the transformation of english landed. This page simply lists all places mentioned in domesday book. I blogged about the fantastic pase domesday project yesterday, which is an online reference tool to access data about people and places from the domesday book. Domesday database launched online university of cambridge. Domesday book etc description of class e 31 in the national archives online catalogue the domesday book alan stanier see the internet archives copy of this page, from november 2004.
Welcome to pase domesday offline, which enables users to download the pase domesday dataset in the following ways formats. You can compare land ownership as listed in the domesday book of 1086 with land ownership at 1066 so as to show how. Tracing the history of your town or village has become easier with the launch of an online version of the domesday book, the most important historical record of medieval england. Domesday book is a manuscript record of the great survey of much of england and parts of. For a more detailed introduction to domesday, and england at the end of the 11th century, when domesday was compiled, consult our online domesday exhibition. Wikipedia the domesday book entry, with useful links. He had earlier given a small manor in middlesex to westminster abbey.
The research for pase 2 also involved the creation of a new web interface which provides enhanced access to the entire database, together with a new dataset linked to mapping facilities designed to facilitate the identification of english landholders in domesday book. Online edition of domesday book, housed on the national archive website. The national archives is the home of domesday book, the oldest surviving public record. If you have a local history site that you would like to be included on these pages please get in touch via the contact page. In the documentary, dr stephen baxter seeks to prove that the domesday book could not have been used to collect taxes, arguing that it is about something far more important than money.
Name gender pase name description holder 1066 lord 1066 tic 1086 tic 1086 subtenanted subtenant 1086 editor editorial status. Anyone can key in the details of where they live to find out who the landowner would have been in 1066, the year of the norman conquest, and who it was by 1086. The first element, wulf wolf, was used to form many different personal names, both male and female. Now, pase domesday has made the entire book available online in an extensive database, including statistical and narrative information with all its locations mapped. The national archives education service domesday book. Whats not in the pase domesday book online mark lords. Selected from three nominated people, they hold his office over the duration of a year. The name domesday book middle english for doomsday book came into use in the 12th century. Pase domesday is also freely available online, so that anyone curious to know who held land in their village at the time of the conquest can find this information quickly and generate maps of where these lords held land throughout the. Searchable index of landholders in 1066 and 1087, prosopography of anglosaxon england pase project.
They have judicial, ceremonial and administrative functions and executes high court writs. In 1086, king william i the conqueror wanted to find out about all the land in his new kingdom. The second, wynn joy, rapture, pleasure, was a grammatically feminine noun and is diagnostic of female names. The domesday book was commissioned in december 1085 by william the conqueror, who invaded england in 1066. In the domesday book, landholdings and names of landowners are listed in separate counties, but the new database pase domesday enables you to search a place or a landowner across the whole of england at once.
Pase domesday forms part of a longterm research initiative which aims in due course to identify all the landholders named in domesday book and to produce a major study of landed society in england in 1066 and 1086. Bbc domesday reloaded a project originated in 1986 to record a. Domesday database launched online an online database which promises to change our understanding of english society on the eve and in the aftermath of the norman conquest has been launched online. The site provides information about the 1086 domesday survey, the domesday book, background information on life in england at the time, links. The first draft was completed in august 1086 and contained records for,418 settlements in the english counties south of the rivers ribble and tees the border with scotland at the time. The namedescription filter function searches the first, third and fourth columns of the table of contents, and filters out only those rows of the table which match the search criterea. The pase domesday website includes masses of data from the saxon era, as well as material gathered for the domesday book. In domesday book the name was written in four different ways which all represent the same pronunciation. In fact there are two domesday books little domesday and about england in the 11th century.
This section explains the nature of those challenges and the way pase has sought to address them. Domesday is now available online, and you can search for your town or village, and download images of domesday along with an. The domesday book online contents of the domesday book. Domesday book domesday book is the oldest government record held in the national archives. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of todays information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone. The following pages include domesday placenames and landowners, and beneath some are links to websites containing the local history of that place.
A new online database of the domesday book has just been launched by the prosopography of anglosaxon england project, which will allow. Domesday book, the original record or summary of william is survey of england. Pase domesday online database launches ahead of bbc two. Pase domesday, which is released today, links information from the domesday. The first draft was completed in august 1086 and contained records for,418 settlements in the english counties south of the rivers ribble and. The pase domesday site has been created by teams at the university of cambridge and kings college, london. Learn more about out why and how domesday was created, and how to interpret it, in discover domesday. The site was built as a nonprofit project by me, anna powellsmith, using data created by professor j. It is principally, therefore, a research tool, but it has been published online in the belief that it will also prove useful to. Essentially, its now possible for anyone to do in a few seconds what it has taken scholars weeks to achieve in the past.
But what william the conqueror didnt have in the domesday book was an easy way of searching its. Domesday book is a unique source which poses specific challenges to historians and prosopographers. By contemporaries the whole operation was known as the description of england, but the popular name domesday i. Before 1066 refers to information used in domesday from records originating from the reign of king edward the confessor.
Domesday records list property and land values before the conquest, after it and contemporary values. A bundle of materials which enable users to explore the pase. Domesday book details made available in map form bbc news. The high sheriff of devon is the queens representative for the county of devon, a territory known as hisher bailiwick. Bbc cambridge university connects communities with domesday. Pase domesday, search online prosopography of anglosaxon. The alphabetised list on the following pages contains brief notes on almost 200 of the most wellknown landholders at the time. In 2011, the open domesday site made the manuscript available online. B an abbreviation of berewic in domesday see below.
The manuscript is held at the national archives at kew, london. A database which can be downloaded as an microsoft excel or microsoft access database. Cyneweard of laughern or simply cyneweard died 1079 x 1086 was a mid11th century anglosaxon thegn and sheriff in worcestershire, england. Searchable index of landholders in 1066 and 1087, prosopography of anglosaxon england pase. Tracing the history of english villages or pieces of land is to become easier with a new online database that helps map out records from the domesday book.
Welcome to pase domesday online, the first databse of domesday book, which can be analysed directly over the internet. The original domesday book itself can no longer be consulted except in very rare circumstances. The pase online database presents details which it calls factoids of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with, anglosaxon. A new online database derived from records contained in the domesday book has just been launched that should prove of immense interest and value to scholars and local and family historians alike. Click on a county name on the map to continue, or use the list of links below it.
The prosopography of anglosaxon england pase is a database and associated website that aims to collate everything that was written in contemporary records about anyone who lived in anglosaxon england, in a prosopography. There are some 418 towns and villages recorded in the domesday book, covering 40 of the old counties of england. The majority of landholders in england at the time of the domesday book had accompanied william the conqueror from france in 1066, and were granted areas of land previously held by english natives. This research guide explains how to access and understand the information within domesday book. Domesday book national archives information leaflet internet archive copy from august 2004 exchequer. It is principally, therefore, a research tool, but it has been published online in the belief that it will also prove useful to anyone who may be interested in. Domesday book is the collective term for these two volumes.
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