Open Domesday
by Anna Powell-Smith

Name: Chester (St John), bishop of

This landowner is associated with 87 places before the Conquest; 94 after the Conquest. (Note that the same name is not necessarily the same person.)

Before the Conquest

Lord in 1066:

After the Conquest

Tenant-in-chief in 1086:

Tenants-in-chief held land directly from the Crown.

Lord in 1086:

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