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From: G . EDWARD ALLEN< >
Subject: Re: Which Thorold?
Date: 7 Oct 1998 07:48:53 -0700
Paul Thomas Blay wrote:
>
> I've got a little known early 11th century "princeps" called Aelfgar with
> enough money to pay well over the odds for land threatened by the Vikings
> and whose descendants Aelfweard, Alward and Willam manage to keep their land
> through the conquest.
>
> Next door I've got a possible goldsmith called Thorold probably son of
> Geoffrey and father of Nicholas probably lord Aston. Possibly designer of
> the Bayeaux tapestry. Is he Godiva's brother? Is he Lucy's dad? Is he
> sheriff of Lincoln and / or Nottingham? Is he related to Hereward's sworn
> enemy Abbot Thorold of Peterborough? Our main car park in Maidenhead is
> named after him! His name (like Godiva's) comes in every conceivable
> version.
>
> Celia
>
> <Via Paul's internet account>
Which is part of the problem. There are several, if not many, Thorolds.
I don't think that anybody has sufficiently sorted through them.
In the Lucy problem, the question is: Is the Thorold, kinsman of Lucy
identical with Thorold the Sheriff? Farrer thought not. Keats-Rohan
and Kirk do or did think so.
Kay Allen AG
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