Turstin

Turstin is a surname that appears in the Domesday Survey of 1086.[1] Notable people with the name include:

  • Turstin FitzRolf
  • Turstin, Count of Avranchin[nb 1]
  • Turstin, the Fleming of Wigmore
  • Turstin, the Sheriff, who held 27 manors in Cornall. [nb 2]
  • Turstin de Crispin de Bec Crispin[nb 3]

Notes
  1. Alfred Ellis in his 1879 article Landholders of Gloucestershire in the Domesday Book[2] suggests the existence of yet another prominent Toustain FitzRou from the family of the Viscounts of the Avranchin, even further south from Le Havre than Le Bec Hellouin mentioned above. This person he states to have witnessed a charter of William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford, to Lyre Abbey, (printed in Gallia, Chr. XI, Instr., p.123). His reasoning is that Wace referred to Turstin the standard-bearer as "Le Blanc", i.e. "white-haired", apparently in order to differentiate him from another Turstin FitzRolf, who presumably had darker hair. Richard, Vicomte of the Avranchin, was the son of Turstin Goz and the father of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester[3]
  2. Turstin, the Sheriff, is recorded in Domesday as holding 27 manors in Cornwall from Robert, Count of Mortain, 1st Earl of Cornwall. He was described consistently as “Turstin the Sheriff”. In none of these Cornwall entries is he described as “FitzRolf” or variants thereof.[4]
  3. The family of Crispin was associated with Bec Abbey at Le Bec Hellouin (also known as Bec Crispin or Bec Crespin) in the Eure departement, on the River Risle approximately 30 miles south east of Le Havre. Bec-de-Mortagne in the Pays-de-Caux, on the other hand is about 20 miles north-east of Le Havre.[5] The name Turstin was common in this family, and for this reason it seems that Stacey Grimaldi, writing in 1832, confused some of the Turstins of Domesday as the same person.[6]

References
  1. "The Domesday Book Online - Home". www.domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  2. BGAS, 1879-80, vol.4, p.186, op.cit.
  3. Douglas, D.C. & Greenaway, G.W. (eds.) English Historical Documents 1042-1189, London, 1959, p.919
  4. Lysons, Daniel & Samuel. Magna Britannia, vol. 3, Cornwall, 1814, Division of Property at the Time of the Domesday Survey, pp.50-64
  5. Michelin Road Atlas of France
  6. Stacey Grimaldi, Gentleman's Magazine, October 1832, Genealogy of Grimaldi-Crispin-Toustain FitzRou de Bec.
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