# Turstin

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'''Turstin''' is a surname that appears in the [Domesday Survey](/source/Domesday_Survey) of 1086.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Domesday Book Online - Home |url=https://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/ |website=www.domesdaybook.co.uk |access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref> Notable people with the name include:
:
* [Turstin FitzRolf](/source/Turstin_FitzRolf)
* Turstin, Count of Avranchin{{#tag:ref|Alfred Ellis in his 1879 article ''Landholders of Gloucestershire in the Domesday Book''<ref>BGAS, 1879-80, vol.4, p.186, op.cit.</ref> suggests the existence of yet another prominent Toustain FitzRou from the family of the Viscounts of the [Avranchin](/source/Avranches), even further south from Le Havre than Le Bec Hellouin mentioned above. This person he states to have witnessed a charter of William FitzOsbern, Earl of Hereford, to [Lyre Abbey](/source/List_of_Benedictine_monasteries_in_France), (printed in ''Gallia, Chr. XI, Instr., p.123''). His reasoning is that Wace referred to Turstin the standard-bearer as "Le Blanc", i.e. "white-haired", apparently in order to differentiate him from another Turstin FitzRolf, who presumably had darker hair. [Richard](/source/Richard_le_Goz%2C_Viscount_of_Avranches), Vicomte of the Avranchin, was the son of Turstin Goz and the father of [Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester](/source/Hugh_d'Avranches%2C_1st_Earl_of_Chester)<ref>Douglas, D.C. & Greenaway, G.W. (eds.) English Historical Documents 1042-1189, London, 1959, p.919</ref>|group="nb"}}
* Turstin, the Fleming of Wigmore
* Turstin, the Sheriff, who held 27 manors in Cornall. {{#tag:ref|Turstin, the Sheriff, is recorded in Domesday as holding 27 manors in Cornwall from [Robert, Count of Mortain](/source/Robert%2C_Count_of_Mortain),  1st Earl of Cornwall. He was described consistently as “Turstin the Sheriff”. In none of these Cornwall entries is he described as “FitzRolf” or variants thereof.<ref name="Lysons pp. 50-64">Lysons, Daniel & Samuel. Magna Britannia, vol. 3, Cornwall, 1814, Division of Property at the Time of the Domesday Survey, pp.50-64</ref>|group="nb"}}
* Turstin de Crispin de Bec Crispin{{#tag:ref|The family of Crispin was wrongly associated with [Bec Abbey](/source/Bec_Abbey) at [Le Bec Hellouin](/source/Le_Bec_Hellouin) in the [Roumois](/source/Roumois), but more probably with [Bec-de-Mortagne](/source/Bec-de-Mortagne) in the [Pays de Caux](/source/Pays_de_Caux), near [Fécamp](/source/F%C3%A9camp) and its name is included in the hamlet ''Le Bec-Crespin'', at [Saint-Martin-du-Bec](/source/Saint-Martin-du-Bec) near [Le Havre](/source/Le_Havre), pays de Caux.<ref>[Charles de Beaurepaire](/source/Charles_de_Beaurepaire) et Dom Jean Laporte, ''Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Seine-Maritime'', Paris, 1982-1984 (réédition), p. 63 (read online) [https://dicotopo.cths.fr/places/P30362708]</ref> ''Bec'' and ''-bec'' are widespread place-name elements in Normandy, meaning "stream, brook" from Old Norse ''bekk'', accusative of ''bekkr''. The name Turstin was common in this family and more generally in medieval Normandy, and for this reason it seems that [Stacey Grimaldi](/source/Stacey_Grimaldi), writing in 1832, confused some of the Turstins of Domesday as the same person.<ref>Stacey Grimaldi, ''[Gentleman's Magazine](/source/Gentleman's_Magazine)'', October 1832, Genealogy of Grimaldi-Crispin-Toustain FitzRou de Bec.</ref>|group="nb"}}

==See also==
*[Dustin](/source/Dustin_(name))
*[Thorstein](/source/Thorstein)
*[Torsten](/source/Torsten)
*[Toutain](/source/Toutain)
*[Tustin](/source/Tustin)

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