Talk:Earl of East Anglia

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Earl of East Anglia post 1075

A manuscript of the Abbey of Bury St Edmund describes Alan Rufus (d. 1093) as Earl of East Anglia.

Alan held many of Earl Gyrth’s estates in 1086 including the key estate of Costessey (upstream of Norwich) which has the only deer park in Norfolk.

His share of Gyrth’s vills was only slightly behind only King William’s in number.

He received many of Ralph the Staller’s estates after 1069 (dividing them with Ralph de Gael), and Domesday states that (Ralph de Gael’s) “lands were divided between the King and the Count”.

Alan was also the leading baron in Cambridgeshire. Zoetropo (talk) 04:32, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gyrth Godwinson: Correct tenure?

According to Michael John Key (2022: 155f), Gyrth 'occupied [the Earldom of East Anglia] barely six months' in 1057, the result of a peace agreement with King Edward by which the former earl, Ælfgar, 'was fully reinstated to his earldom.' Brox Sox (talk) 09:50, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]