Looking at the Domesday Book for the Humber area would reveal the specific Norman landholders of 1086 and the pattern of English land redistribution that had occurred in the two decades since Hastings.

Conquest Man did not appear in the Domesday Book.

He was dead by 1086.

And even if he had been alive, he would only appear in Domesday if he was a landholder of sufficient significance to be recorded.

The survey focused on landholders, not on all people.

The Domesday Book is the great inventory of the world he lived in, taken just after he left it.

It documents the Norman settlement of England in which his burial, in a Norman knight’s church, was a small local instance.