1086) of Montacute was one of the Devon Domesday Book tenants-in-chief of King William the Conqueror.
The Domesday Book of 1086 lists "Ansger de Montagud" as holding seven manors in Devonshire from the king.
These were:[1] His holdings later became the property of the feudal barony of Gloucester,[2] the Devonshire caput of which was Winkleigh.
He is apparently the same man as "Ansgar the Breton" who held other estates in Devon and Somerset from Robert, Count of Mortain,[3] half-brother of William the Conqueror, in Devon namely:
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