Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameDominus OTHER, 26G Grandfather
FatherGherardo GHERARDINI (->1006)
Web Notes notes for Dominus OTHER
A Norman who came to England with Edward. His Father was a Florentine.
In Domesday Survey occurs the name of Walter Fitz-Other, Castellan of Windsor and Warden of the Forests in Berkshire, being then possessed of two lordships in Berkshire, three in Surrey, three in Bucks, three in Dorsetshire, four in Middlesex, nine in Wiltshire, one in Somerset, and ten in Hampshire, all of which Dominus Otherus, his father, held in the time of King Edward the Confessor. This Other, or Otho, as he is sometimes called, is said to have been one of the family of the Gherardini of Florence, whence Gheraldine, Geraldine. Having settled in Normandy, he was one of the foreign favorites who accompanied King Edward the Confessor to England, and created such jealousy among his Saxon subjects.34
In Domesday Survey occurs the name of Walter Fitz-Other, Castellan of Windsor and Warden of the Forests in Berkshire, being then possessed of two lordships in Berkshire, three in Surrey, three in Bucks, three in Dorsetshire, four in Middlesex, nine in Wiltshire, one in Somerset, and ten in Hampshire, all of which Dominus Otherus, his father, held in the time of King Edward the Confessor. This Other, or Otho, as he is sometimes called, is said to have been one of the family of the Gherardini of Florence, whence Gheraldine, Geraldine. Having settled in Normandy, he was one of the foreign favorites who accompanied King Edward the Confessor to England, and created such jealousy among his Saxon subjects.34