Landholding

Domesday Book is largely about landowners and landholding. The concepts involved can seem difficult and are complicated by the apparent differences between Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman practices.

For the main concepts and formulae employed in Domesday Book, see:

• landholding concepts

• as a manor

• bookland

• commendation

• could go

• could grant

• could sell

• could withdraw

• could not go

• could not grant

• could not sell

• could not withdraw

• feudal

• fiefs, Holding

• freehold

• freely

• Honour

• jointly, parage

• predecessor

• reeveland

• sergeant

• subinfeudation

• tenant-in-chief

• tenure

• tenurial

• thaneland

• tributary

• vavassor

See also:

• codes for landholders

• codes for tenures.