Basement · Unproven traditions
Not a proven ancestor. A family tradition with no record linking this person to John's line.
Sir Richard Coffin
1066, by tradition
What the tradition claimed
By Coffin family tradition he fought beside William the Conqueror at Hastings and was granted Alwington, in Devon.
Where the chain breaks
No Coffin appears in the Domesday record of 1086, and Tristram Coffin's link to the Coffins of Portledge is not proved.
See The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name and Tristram Coffin.