[3] He had been granted by William the Conqueror the feudal barony of Totnes, Devon, and held many manors in south-west England, at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, including Clawton, Broadwood Kelly, Bridford and Cornworthy.
[4][5][6][7] However, Barry Cunliffe names him as one of two Breton noblemen who held land in England prior to Norman Conquest.
According to the historian Frank Barlow (1983), King William II "replaced the Breton Judhel, whom he expelled from Totnes at the beginning of his reign for an unknown reason, with his favourite, Roger I of Nonant".
[11] Alfred's two sisters, one of whom was called Aenor while the name of the other is unknown, were his co-heiresses, each inheriting a moiety of the barony of Barnstaple.
In 1206 Juhel's great-grandson William III de Braose (1140/50–1211) regained control of half the barony of Totnes.