Osbern D'Arques

Osbern D'Arques, was a High Sheriff of Yorkshire following the Norman conquest of England.[1][2][3]

Domesday Book folio 301v

Born about 1064, he was the son of Guillaume d'Arques and nephew of Geofrey Tison. He died about 1115 in Thorp Arch, England.

He was a prominent landowner mentioned in the Domesday Book,[4] and seems to have given testimony in the Domesday account himself.[5]

He held lands as Tenant-in-chief in Redbourne, Scawby and Sturton, all in Lincolnshire,[6] Askham,[7] Hebden, North Yorkshire, and Craven. He also appears to have had business dealings with William Malet, his successor as High Sheriff.[8]

References
  1. Rex Welldon Finn, The Making and Limitations of the Yorkshire Domesday, Issue 41(Borthwick Publications, 1972 ) p30.
  2. Domesday People: Domesday book (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999) p314.
  3. LECHAUDE - D ́ANISY, Recherches sur Le Domesday par --- et de Sainte - Marie (C. M. Lesaulnier., 1842) p197.
  4. http://opendomesday.org/name/386100/osbern-of-arques/
  5. Rex Welldon Finn, The Making and Limitations of the Yorkshire Domesday, Issue 41(Borthwick Publications, 1972) p25.
  6. Robin Fleming, Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early Medieval England (Cambridge University Press, 2003 ) p272.
  7. St Mary, Askham Richard, Yorkshire, West Riding .
  8. Domesday People: Domesday book (Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999) p314.
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