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Ordgar 15

Name

Summary

Ordgar 15 the man of Eadmær held a single estate in Devon assessed at one hide and worth 60 shillings TRE; it is Exon Domesday that identifies him as the man of Eadmer Atori.

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 15,17	Vill Stockleigh	DB Spelling Orgar	Holder 1066 Ordgar 'of Stockleigh'	Lord 1066 Eadmær Ator	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Alfred the butler	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Great Domesday records that Ordgar 15 held one hide and worth 60 shillings TRE at ‘Stochelie’ (for the purposes of mapping, we have accepted one of the possible ‘Stochelie’ places identified by Frank and Caroline Thorn in their notes to Domesday Book 9: Devon (15:17)). Exon Domesday adds that he was the man of Eadmer Atori, and that he could go to whichever lord he would with his land: ‘Ordgarus fuit homo Edmer Atorii … potuit ire ad quelibet dominum cum ista terra’ (Exon 215a, and cf. 500a). The fact that this estate was relatively small and was geographically isolated from the others attributed to men of the same name commends the view that Ordgar 15 held only this estate.

Ordgar 15 is unlikely to have been identical with Ordgar 21, since the latter’s estates lay about 29 miles away in Somerset and passed to different successors. In common with Ordgar 15, the estates of Ordgar 19 passed to Robert count of Mortain; however, this is not significant since Robert was one of the wealthiest lords in England in 1086 with a widely scattered holding, and Ordgar 19’s estates lay more than 140 miles away in Northamptonshire.