1086), whose 46 Domesday Book holdings later formed the feudal barony of Bradninch, Devon.
[6] His sister was Beatrix, who held from her other brother William Cheever the manor of Southleigh.
[7] He participated in the Norman Conquest of England[8] in 1066, for which services he was rewarded by the grant of 58[9] manors or other holdings in Devon and 2 manors in Somerset.
[10] He is said by historian John Lambrick Vivian (1895) to have been a benefactor to the Hospital of St John the Baptist at Falaise in Normandy,[11] which was not, however, founded until 1127,[12] therefore after his supposed date of death of 1100.
He was one of the two commissioners appointed to carry to the royal treasury at Winchester the tax collected in Devon resulting from the assessment made upon the Domesday Book survey.