Juhel of Totnes

Lord of Barnstaple and Totnes

Juhel is recorded in Domesday Book holding property in Devonshire and Cornwall. [An image of the record of his holdings in Cornwall.]

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 14 August, between 1123 and 1129.

Place of Death: St Martin des Champs in Paris.

The date and place are given by Williams (p. 289).

Relationships

Father: Alured.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (1:21). Williams (pp. 271-274) notes that there are conflicting theories about the identity of Alured. Keats-Rohan (p. 285) gives his name as Alfred, and suggests that he may have been Alfred the Giant.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: a sister of Guermond de Picquigny.

This relationship is given by Williams (p. 285) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 286).

Children:

Alured.

Aenor married Philip de Briouze.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 1.

Keats-Rohan, Katharine. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 (The Boydell Press, 1999).

Turner, Ralph V. “Briouze, William (III) de (d. 1211)” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Williams, John Bryan. "Judhael of Totnes: The Life and Times of a Post-Conquest Baron" in Anglo-Norman Studies XVI (1993) pp. 271-289.