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Brun 18

Name

Summary

Brun 18 was a priest who held 3 virgates of land in south Oxfordshire directly from King William in 1086 and had held the same land before 1066. Its value rose over that period from 20s. to 30s.

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 Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 14,4	Vill Cadwell	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun the priest, 'of Cadwell'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Brun the priest, 'of Cadwell'	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 14,4	Vill Cadwell	DB Spelling Brun	Holder 1066 Brun the priest, 'of Cadwell'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Brun the priest, 'of Cadwell'	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Brun the priest was listed among the ‘other clerks’ who held land direct from King William in Oxfordshire in 1086. He had 3 virgates at Cadwell, a small place on one of the streams below the Chiltern escarpment, and had held the same land before 1066.

Cadwell was later reckoned a tithing in the parish of Brightwell Baldwin (Lewis 1831: I, 300), but it is not certain that Brun was the parish priest of Brightwell. The nineteenth-century parish boundary between Brightwell and its northern neighbour Chalgrove follows a course which suggests that Cadwell was originally a separate territory which was eventually added to Brightwell (Kain and Oliver 2001: nos. 29/286–7 and 294). In any case, Brun is more likely to have been a king’s priest, perhaps based at a minster church, rather than a local parish priest.

Bibliography

Roger J. P. Kain and Richard R. Oliver, Historic Parishes of England and Wales: An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata (Colchester: History Data Service, 2001)

Samuel Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of England, 4 vols (London: S. Lewis and Co., 1831)