Editing Cornwall (section)

===Breton–Norman period===
[[File:Kernow Hundreds.png|thumb|right|The ancient [[Hundreds of Cornwall]]]]
One interpretation of the [[Domesday Book]] is that by this time the native Cornish landowning class had been almost completely dispossessed and replaced by English landowners, particularly [[Harold Godwinson]] himself. However, the [[Bodmin manumissions]] show that two leading Cornish figures nominally had Saxon names, but these were both glossed with native Cornish names.<ref>[http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/bodmin/ Cornish (and Other) Personal Names from the 10th Century Bodmin Manumissions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511021107/https://s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/bodmin/ |date=11 May 2016 }} by Heather Rose Jones</ref> In 1068, [[Brian of Brittany]] may have been created [[Earl of Cornwall]], and naming evidence cited by medievalist [[Edith Ditmas]] suggests that many other post-Conquest landowners in Cornwall were Breton allies of the Normans, the Bretons being descended from Britons who had fled to what is today [[Brittany]] during the early years of the Anglo-Saxon conquest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1386666/llgc-id:1419899/llgc-id:1419912/get |title=Welsh Journals Online |publisher=Welshjournals.llgc.org.uk |access-date=2 November 2015 |archive-date=31 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231220817/http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewpage/llgc-id:1386666/llgc-id:1419899/llgc-id:1419912/get |url-status=live }}</ref> She also proposed this period for the early composition of the [[Tristan and Iseult]] cycle by poets such as [[Béroul]] from a pre-existing shared Brittonic oral tradition.<ref>E. M. R. Ditmas, ''Tristan and Iseult in Cornwall: The Twelfth-century Romance by Beroul Re-told from the Norman French, by E. M. R. Ditmas Together with Notes on Old Cornwall and a Survey of Place Names in the Poem'' (Forrester Roberts, 1970)</ref>

Soon after the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman conquest]] most of the land was transferred to the new Breton–Norman aristocracy, with the lion's share going to [[Robert, Count of Mortain]], half-brother of [[William the Conqueror|King William]] and the largest landholder in England after the king with his stronghold at [[Trematon Castle]] near the mouth of the Tamar.<ref>Williams, Ann & Martin, G. H. (2002) (tr.) ''Domesday Book: a complete translation'', London: Penguin, pp. 341–357</ref>