Ordgar

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Discussion of the name

Ordgar is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements ord, ‘point, spear-point, spear’, and gar ‘spear, dart, javelin’. PASE currently lists 11 persons bearing this name occurring in documents other than DB, all dating from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Several of these individuals were high status: they include three ealdormen (Ordgar 1, Ordgar 4, and Ordgar 6), two thegns who subscribed royal diplomas (Ordgar 2 and Ordgar 7); a person commemorated in the Liber Vitae of St Gallen in 929 (Ordgar 3); a moneyer associated with the mint of Shrewsbury in the reign of King Æthelred II (Ordgar 13); a servant of Queen Emma (Ordgar 10); and a Cambridgeshire witness of a will issued early in the reign of King Edward the Confessor (Ordgar 9). It is suggested here that Ordgar 9 and Ordgar 10 may have been identical with the Domesday landholder Ordar 14, who was sheriff of Cambridgeshire.

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Ordgar, Orgar, Orgarus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ordgar

  Phillimore edition: Ordgar

  Alecto edition: Ordgar

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Cambridgeshire 12,1 Sawston Orgar Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire Harold, earl Robert, count of Mortain unnamed abbot of Grestain 2.00 6.00 6.00 D Map
Cambridgeshire 22,6 Chippenham Orgarus Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire Edward, king Geoffrey de Mandeville - 3.00 3.60 6.00 A Map
Cambridgeshire 28,1 Isleham Orgarus Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire Edward, king Hugh de Port - 1.67 3.00 2.00 A Map
Cambridgeshire 32,5 Harston Orgar Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire Harold, earl Picot of Cambridge - 4.00 5.33 4.27 D Map
Devon 15,17 Stockleigh Orgar Ordgar 'of Stockleigh' Eadmær Ator Robert, count of Mortain Alfred the butler 1.00 3.00 2.50 B Map
Essex 13,2 Horseham Hall Orgarus Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire - Gausbert, abbot of Battle - 1.00 2.00 2.00 D Map
Essex 56,1 Radwinter Orgarus Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire - Frodo brother of Abbot Baldwin - 1.25 7.50 14.50 D Map
Essex 56,1 Radwinter Orgarus Ordgar, sheriff of Cambridgeshire - Frodo brother of Abbot Baldwin Ælfgar 'of Radwinter' 0.25 0.50 0.50 D Map
Essex 57,5 Childerditch Orgarus Ordgar 'of Childerditch' - Sasselin - 1.75 3.00 4.00 D Map
Norfolk 39,1 Riddlesworth Orgarus Ordgar 'of Riddlesworth' - Humphrey fitzAubrey - 1.00 1.50 1.50 B Map
Norfolk 5,1 Massingham Orgarus Ordgar 'of Massingham' - Eustace, count Guy d'Anjou 4.00 1.00 2.50 B Map
Norfolk 5,2 Anmer Orgarus Ordgar 'of Massingham' - Eustace, count - 2.00 2.00 2.00 B Map
Norfolk 5,3 Fring Orgarus Ordgar 'of Massingham' - Eustace, count - 1.00 2.00 3.00 B Map
Northamptonshire 18,43 Harlestone Orgar Ordgar 'of Harlestone' - Robert, count of Mortain William de Cahagnes 0.75 0.13 0.75 B Map
Northamptonshire 18,57 Farthingstone Orgar Ordgar 'of Harlestone' Edward, king Robert, count of Mortain William de Cahagnes 0.58 0.18 0.72 B Map
Northamptonshire 18,58 Dodford Orgar Ordgar 'of Harlestone' - Robert, count of Mortain William de Cahagnes 0.50 0.33 0.67 B Map
Oxfordshire 35,24 Berrick Salome Orgar Ordgar 'of Berrick Salome' - Miles Crispin Ordgar 1.33 1.00 1.33 B Map
Oxfordshire 35,25 Gangsdown Orgar Ordgar 'of Berrick Salome' - Miles Crispin Ordgar 0.33 0.33 0.33 B Map
Somerset 21,7 Clayhill Ordgar Ordgar 'of Clayhill' - Roger de Courseulles Ansketil the parker 1.00 1.00 1.00 B Map
Somerset 21,75 Lexworthy Orgar Ordgar 'of Clayhill' - Roger de Courseulles Geoffrey de Vautortes 0.25 0.75 0.75 B Map
Somerset 46,7 Perry Orgar Ordgar 'of Clayhill' - John the usher Robert 'the man of John the usher' 0.53 0.50 0.75 D Map
Suffolk 6,110 Stratton Orgarus Ordgar 'of Kylvertestuna' Eadric of Laxfield Robert Malet Bernard of London 0.06 0.25 0.21 A Map
Wiltshire 7,8 Winterbourne Monkton Orgar Ordgar 'of Winterbourne Monkton' Æthelnoth, abbot of Glastonbury Thurstan, abbot of Glastonbury Gilbert de Breteuil 3.50 1.68 2.80 C Map
Totals

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Oxfordshire 58,38 Adlach Ordgar Godwine 'of Adlach' - Ordgar, king's thegn - 2.00 2.00 2.00 C Map
Totals

Lord 1066

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Cambridgeshire 14,21 Harston Orgarus 1 priest Ordgar Alan, count Odo the chamberlain 0.25 0.27 0.18 C Map
Cambridgeshire 14,75 Dullingham - Alstan 'of Dullingham' Ordgar Alan, count - 0.58 0.61 0.00 C Map
Totals

Subtenant in 1086

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Berkshire B9 Wallingford Orgar - - William, king Ordgar 'of Wallingford' 0.00 0.00 0.07 - Map
Essex 32,7 Chingford Orgarus 1 free man - Robert Gernon Ordgar 'of Chingford' 5.00 3.50 3.50 - Map
Oxfordshire 35,24 Berrick Salome Orgar unnamed uncle of Ordgar - Miles Crispin Ordgar 1.33 1.00 1.33 A Map
Oxfordshire 35,24 Berrick Salome Orgar unnamed father of Ordgar - Miles Crispin Ordgar 1.33 1.00 1.33 A Map
Oxfordshire 35,24 Berrick Salome Orgar Ordgar 'of Berrick Salome' - Miles Crispin Ordgar 1.33 1.00 1.33 A Map
Oxfordshire 35,25 Gangsdown Orgar unnamed father of Ordgar - Miles Crispin Ordgar 0.33 0.33 0.33 A Map
Oxfordshire 35,25 Gangsdown Orgar unnamed uncle of Ordgar - Miles Crispin Ordgar 0.33 0.33 0.33 A Map
Oxfordshire 35,25 Gangsdown Orgar Ordgar 'of Berrick Salome' - Miles Crispin Ordgar 0.33 0.33 0.33 A Map
Suffolk 14,152 Wickam Skeith Orgerus Hereweard 'the Wake' Burgheard, son of Earl Ælfgar Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds Ordgar the abbot's reeve 0.02 0.25 0.25 B Map
Suffolk 14,152 Wickham Skeith Orgerus Brunlocc 'of Wickham' Burgheard, son of Earl Ælfgar Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds Ordgar the abbot's reeve 0.02 0.02 0.02 B Map
Totals