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Brun 13

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Summary

Brun 13 was one of the larger thegnly landowners in east Cheshire, with six manors assessed at exactly 5 hides and worth almost £3 10s.

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 1,30	Vill Chelford	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 13,5	Vill Bramhall	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Hamon de Mascy	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.80	1086 Value 0.13	Confidence A	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 14,5	Vill Norbury	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Bigot de Loges	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence A	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 14,7	Vill Siddington	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Bigot de Loges	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence A	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 9,28	Vill Over Alderley	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant William fitzNigel	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 1,30	Vill Ludworth	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.17	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The clustering of this group of estates serves to identify their holder and distinguish him from his nearest namesakes in eastern Mercia and Yorkshire.

The Cheshire manors all passed to Earl Hugh, along with the rest of the shire, whereas King William retained the only Derbyshire holding as part of the larger estate of Longdendale. Brun was the only landowner in all these vills except for Bramhall, where he held one of two manors and was named first. The Cheshire manors were all held with full power of alienation (‘as a free man’), but Ludworth was in some sense part of the larger entity of Longdendale, whose pre-Conquest lord (not explicitly indicated in DB) was very likely King Edward (Derb. 1:30).

Brun’s estate straggled across some 16 miles of poor farming country, partly where the foothills of the Pennines open out into the Cheshire plain, and partly reaching high into the Pennine valleys on the east. In such difficult terrain it had a low value (less than £3 10s.) and assessment (exactly 5 hides); its geographical extent is better indicated by the 20 ploughlands counted on the Cheshire manors.