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Leofstan

Male


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  • Name Leofstan   [1
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I16473  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 4 Dec 2023 

    Children 
    +1. Ordgar   d. Between 1142 and 1143
    Family ID F10088  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 Aug 2018 

  • Notes 
    • He may have been a son of Ailwin Horne of Walkern, Hertfordshire, thegn in Middlesex and Bedfordshire before 1066. One of this Ailwin's great-granddaughters was the wife of William Blemund, a Norman landowner whose possessions included a rural area north of London called Blemondsberi, later Bloomsbury.

      According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on Henry fitz Ailwin, first mayor of London, Henry's grandfather Leofstan "was later believed to have been the reeve of London associated with the royal foundation (1108) of Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate" and "may have been the domesman who died in 1115 and was buried in Bermondsey Priory." We follow Anthony Wagner's pedigree for Henry fitz Ailwin, in which Henry's great-great grandfather Leofstan, not Henry's grandfather of the same name, is identified as "portreeve of London, 1066." This certainly seems more chronologically plausible.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2158] Pedigree and Progress: Essays in the Genealogical Interpretation of History by Anthony Wagner. London: Phillimore & Co., 1975.