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William Peche

The family name of Peche is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. One of the records also references Belchamp Walter (Thunderlow).

The geni.com page for Guillaume de Péché, I

There is a lot of information on this page and although there is a button that when pressed encourages you to join Geni, there are quite a few "curators notes". These will have to be pursued further but the first I have extracted from them is the reference to Aubrey de Vere as a "progenitor of the earls of Oxford".

It is known that Guillaume Pecche (William Peccatum), progenitor of the Cloptons of Suffolk and the Pecches, Barons of Bourn in Cambridge, was an undertenant to Richard de Bienfaite (FitzGilbert) at the Domesday Survey in 1086; of whom he held Clopton and Dalham in Suffolk and at Gestingthorpe in Essex. However, he was also an undertenant of Aubrey de Vere, progenitor of the earls of Oxford, at Belchamp Walter in Essex, in the immediate vicinity of Gestingthorpe;

I don't have a problem with that Aubrey was the "progenitor of the earls of Oxford" but I am less sure that Peche was an undertenant of his at the time of Domesday.

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Rishbridge, Suffolk

Rishbridge is not far from Hinkford, the current location of Belchamp Walter, the communities of Clopton and Dalham are located in Rishbridge. Gestingthorpe is also in Hinkford.

Risbridge is a hundred of Suffolk, consisting of 58,468 acres (236.61 km2).[1]

Risbridge Hundred forms the south western corner of Suffolk extending 15 miles (24 km) from north to south and between 4 and 9 miles (14 km) in breadth. It is bounded on the west by Cambridgeshire on the south by Essex, on the east by Babergh and Thingoe Hundreds and on the north by Lackford Hundred. It is in the Franchise or Liberty of St Edmund, in the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, Deanery of Clare and Diocese of Ely.

Progenitor of the earls of Oxford

This statement comes from the notes on the geni.com page for Guillaume Pecche (I will have to check was the source for this was),

Enisant <h;of Belchamp>

The immediate lord over the peasants after the Conquest, who paid tax to the tenant-in-chief.

Again, this shows a deficiency with the recording of Domesday in a database.

Enisant could be just another term (Old English/Nirman/Latin) for undertenant (underlord) to the tenant-in-chief. It may not be an actual name. The way that it is displayed in OpenDomesday is with <> brackets, this is not clearly explianed. The map of the location is the same as it is for Belchamp Walter and there is no additional information on the OpenDomesday page.

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References:

  • Risbridge Hundred - https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Risbridge_Hundred
  • Guillaume Pecche aka William Peccatum - https:// www.geni.com/people/ Guillaume-Pecche-aka-William-Peccatum/ 6000000001531387075
  • Enisant-of-Belchamp - https://opendomesday.org/name/enisant-of-belchamp/

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