Reinbert, the sheriff of Hastings

Dapifer (attested c. 1086)

Sheriff of the Rape of Hastings (attested 1086-1106)

Steward of the Count of Eu

Justiciar for Henry I and William II

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1086, 1106.

Reinbert appears in Domesday Book. Keats-Rohan (p. 357)

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Heir, probably son-in-law: Drew of Pevensey.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 357).

Nepos (probably, nephew): Warmund.

This relationship is given by the Sussex VCH (1:380) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 357), who notes that he was possibly the Wermund de Petra who attested a charter of Henry d’Eu in 1107.

Nepos (probably, nephew): Richard.

This relationship is given by the Sussex VCH (1:380).

Probable relative: Alan, son of Reimbert and Albreda.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 357), who notes that Alan made a grant to Lewes c. 1140 attested by Simon fitz Drogo.

Evidence

Reinbert’s position in Sussex:

Sussex VCH (1:352)

Reinbert’s lands in Domesday:

from the Sussex VCH (1:403, and the surrounding pages)

Reinbert (the sheriff) from Open Domesday

from the Sussex VCH (9:212):

There is no mention of Etchingham by name in the Domesday Survey, but at that date Reinbert, the sheriff of Hastings and founder of the house of Echingham, was holding one hide in the hundred of Henhurst, which had been held by Cane before the Conquest. The overlordship followed the descent of the rape. The heir of Reinbert was Dru of Pevensey, whose son Simon de ‘Achingham’ was living about 1150…

References

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 1, (Victoria County Histories, 1905).

A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 9, the Rape and Honour of Hastings, (Victoria County Histories, 1937).

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

Robert of Flamborough. Liber Poenitentialis, ed. J.J. Francis Firth (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1971).