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Beorhtfrith 25

Name

Summary

Beorhtfrith 25 held one of two manors in Dorset TRE that after the Conquest were combined to form a single estate that had a total assessment of 3 hides and a value of £6.

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
Shire Dorset	Phil. ref. 57,1	Vill Frome Billet	DB Spelling Bricfrid	Holder 1066 Beorhtfrith 'of Frome'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William Belet	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Three of the four TRE landholders called Beorhtfrith held lands in south-western England but these estates were relatively small, lay at least 45 miles from each other and were held by different successors in 1086, so it does not seem probable that they could have been held by the same person TRE.

Beorhtfrith 25 and Wulfweard are described as having held Frome Billet as two manors TRE, the whole passing to William Bellett TRW and being listed among the ‘Lands of the king’s sergeants’ in DB. Wulfweard’s name and tenure form part of the main entry, with Beorhtfrith’s name and the note about two manors added above the line; this supplementary information appears to have been added by the original scribe.

Frome Billet lay on the river Frome about 2 miles to the east of Dorchester. It was one of a number of places named from the river in DB, the later manorial suffix deriving from the TRW holder or his descendants (Mills 1977: 243-4). For this reason the toponymic byname here assigned to Beorhtfrith 25 uses only the simple form.

Bibliography

Mills 1977: A. D. Mills, The Place-Names of Dorset: Part I (Nottingham, 1977)