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Hamon FitzHamon

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Hamon FitzHamon

Birth
Creully, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France
Death
1100 (aged 67–68)
Kent, England
Burial
Battle, Rother District, East Sussex, England Add to Map
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Also known as: Hamo Dapifer Torigny-sur-Vire, "Le Seneschal", "the Counsellor", Hamon Fitz Haimo, Baron Thoringni, "Haimo".
He was an Anglo-Norman royal official under both king William I of England and King England II of England. He was one of five of the recognizable stewards of the Exchequer to both kings. He witnessed documents and served in the higher levels of government in the absence of William II from England in the late 1090's and in 1099. He was one of the main assistants to Flambard who was left in charge of England in the King's absence.

He held the office of dapifer or seneschal as well as the office of sheriff of Kent.

According to the Doomesday Book, Haimo held lands in Kent, Surrey and Essex, the largest estates being in Essex.

Place of burial from Doomesday Book.
Also known as: Hamo Dapifer Torigny-sur-Vire, "Le Seneschal", "the Counsellor", Hamon Fitz Haimo, Baron Thoringni, "Haimo".
He was an Anglo-Norman royal official under both king William I of England and King England II of England. He was one of five of the recognizable stewards of the Exchequer to both kings. He witnessed documents and served in the higher levels of government in the absence of William II from England in the late 1090's and in 1099. He was one of the main assistants to Flambard who was left in charge of England in the King's absence.

He held the office of dapifer or seneschal as well as the office of sheriff of Kent.

According to the Doomesday Book, Haimo held lands in Kent, Surrey and Essex, the largest estates being in Essex.

Place of burial from Doomesday Book.


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