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Cadwallon 2
Cadwallon ‘of Nancekuke’ (Cornwall), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
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Summary
Cadwallon 2 held an estate in west Cornwall TRE that was assessed at 1 hide and valued at 10s. He held it as a dependent tenant of St Petroc’s church at Bodmin.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall | 4,6 | Nancekuke | Caduualant | Cadwallon 'of Nancekuke' | unnamed canons of Bodmin | unnamed canons of Bodmin | Berner 'of Hornacott' | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | A | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
Cadwallon 2 is identified because he represents the only instance of that or a similar name recorded in DB, whether TRE or in 1086.His estate was at Nancekuke, lying at the head of a small valley that runs up onto commons overlooking the north coast of west Cornwall. Nancekuke derives from Old Cornish nant%%nans ‘valley’ and cuic ‘empty, blind’, a compound denoting a blind or hollow valley, although the DB spelling Lanchehoc (Lancuhuc in Exon Domesday, 202b1) shows the common interchange between nans and *lann ‘enclosed cemetery’ (Padel 1985: 75, 143, 170).
The place-name also occurred, as non cuic, in the southernmost bounds of an estate at Tywarnhayle, granted by King Edgar 11 to Eanwulf 20 in 960, but it is not clear if Nancekuke lay within those bounds and had formed a part of the grant (S 684; Hooke 1994: 28-33). This grant may have represented the alienation into English secular hands of estates formerly held by the Cornish monastery of St Pieranus and perhaps that of St Petroc also (Olson 1989: 95).
In either case the land at Nancekuke was in, or was back in, St Petroc’s hands TRE, because DB records that Cadwallon ‘held from’ the saint and ‘could not be separated from him’ (nec ab eo poterat seperari). This phrasing shows that Cadwallon did not have the power of alienation over his land but was instead a dependent tenant of St Petroc’s church at Bodmin.
We thus have a landholder with an Old Cornish name holding a dependent tenure under one of the native Cornish churches on the very eve of the Norman Conquest.
Bibliography
Hooke 1994: D. Hooke, Pre-Conquest Charter-Bounds of Devon and Cornwall (Woodbridge, 1994)
Olson 1989: B. L. Olson, Early Monasteries in Cornwall, Studies in Celtic History 11 (Woodbridge, 1989)
Padel 1985: O. J. Padel, Cornish Place-Name Elements, English Place-Name Society 56/57 (Nottingham, 1985)
S: P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 8 (London, 1968), revised by S. Kelly, R. Rushforth et al., The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters, published online through Kemble: The Anglo-Saxon Charters Website, currently at http://www.esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html