Eudo (Eudon) de (Filius) fitz Spiruwin (Tattershall)

Eudo Filius (son of) Spiruwin.

The Tattersall family's earliest known ancestor was a man living in Brittany called something akin to 'Sperewi'. Little is known of him, except that he had a son known as Eudon, possibly shortened to Eudo or Yon.. 'Eudo fitz Spirewic' joined the Breton contingent which formed a third of the force brought to England by William the Conqueror in 1066.

He must have distinguished himself in the battle of Hastings, for contemporary records state that he and his brother in arms Pinson were well rewarded for their bravery by Duke WIlliam with lands in Lincolnshire, Eudo's around the area now known as Tattershall. The place name derives in all probability from the wife of Earl Edwin, named Ethelburga (who was Kentish). She was known as Tate, a favourite saxon feminine name, so Tateshal means Hall or Residence of Tate.

Eudo is recorded in the Domesday book as holding many parcels of land as Lord, including 29 seperate holdings in the South Riding of Lincolnshire, 5 in the North Riding, and sundry others in Norfolk and Suffolk. In the Norfolk Domesday, his name is recorded as 'Eudo fitz Spiruwin' and this may hint at the Breton name Erwan or Ewen, equivalent to the french name Yves,Yvick or Even, meaning 'yew'. Ewen is also equivalent to IWAN or IWEN, YOUEN and the Diminutive IVONIG. Thus Eudo's first name also given by the complete peerage variously as Eudo, Yon or Eon clearly also links equivalently to the second half of his surname.

In the Lincolnshire Domesday, the original latin has him as 'Eudonis filius Spireuuic'. The Historian Frank Stenton notes that there is mention of the name 'Spereuui' in a 9th century document contained in the Cartulary of Redon Abbey in Brittany. The Academy of Saint Gabriel has in a list of 9th century names also found in the Redon Cartulary: Eudon, Euhoiarn Uuinhoiarn and Euuen. It is noted also that the formation 'Uu' is equivalent to the english letter 'w'.

'Eudo fitz Spirewic' and the latin 'Eudonis filius Spereuuic' can then be broken down and analysed. The 'fitz' and 'filius' can safely be discarded as a norman and latin accretions meaning 'son of'. According to the online Preder trilingual dictionary the breton word 'sper' has the meaning of: semence,sperme, race, lignée, postérité, génération. Thus the name variously recorded in Domesday as 'Spiruwin and 'Spirewic' can be understood as the combination of 'sper' meaning 'from the line of' and the breton name Ewen or it's Norman french equivalent 'Yvick'.The Contraction of Eudo to Yon or Eon and the equivalence of Youen and Ewen demonstrate that in the final analysis, he is Ewen, son of Ewen, probably from a long line of eldest sons stretching back beyond the 'Spereuui' mentioned in the 9th century Redon Cartulary.

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a) EUDES (-before 1118). m ---. The name of Eudesþs wife is not known. Eudes & his wife had one child:

i) HUGH Brito [de Tattershall] (-before 1166). An undated manuscript which records the foundation of Kirkstead abbey, Lincolnshire names “domino Hugone Britone…natione Brito…filium Eudonis dominum in Tateshale" as the abbeyþs founder, as well as "suis successoribus…domino Philippo de Tatteshale et Elizabetha uxore eiusdem et domino Roberto et domina Alicia uxore eiusdem et domino Roberto milite strenuo"[34]. Another manuscript records the foundation of Kirkstead abbey, Lincolnshire in 1139 by “domino Hugone Bretone…natione Brito…cujus nomen Brito in Hugonem filium Eudonis domini de Tateshale mutatur", that "Hugo filius Eudonis et Hugo filius Pincionis fuerunt fratres sacri", that the former had "filium et hæredum…Robertum filium Hugonis" who was succeeded by "Johannes filius eiusdem Roberti et hæres" who had "fratrum…Robertum et…filium et hæredum…Walterum", the last-named being succeeded by "alius Walterus filius et hæres primi Walteri" who was in turn succeeded by "Robertus filius et hæres eiusdem Walteri"[35]. "Hugo filius Eudonis" donated land in Great Sturton to Kirkstead abbey, with the consent of "Roberti filii mei", by charter dated to [1140/50] witnessed by "Alano de Creun, Waltero et Andrea filiis meis…"[36]. A charter of King Henry II dated to [1155] confirmed the property of Kirkstead abbey, including by "Hugonis filii Eudonis et Roberti filii eius" who confirmed a donation of land in Aby and South Thoresby donated by "Willelmus filius Otueli avunculus meus" to Greenfield priory, Lincolnshire by charter dated to [1166/75] witnessed by "Simone de Bello Campo…"[37]. m ---. The name of Hughþs wife is not known. Hugh & his wife had [five] children:

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