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Ordgar 18

Name

Summary

Ordgar 18 ‘of Riddlesworth’ was a free man who held one estate in Norfolk assessed at 1 carucate and worth 30 shillings TRE.

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 Norfolk	Phil. ref. 39,1	Vill Riddlesworth	DB Spelling Orgarus	Holder 1066 Ordgar 'of Riddlesworth'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Humphrey fitzAubrey	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The fact that Riddlesworth is geographically isolated from other estates attributed to men of the same name and passed to a different successor commends the view that he held only this estate. Ordgar 18 is differentiated from Ordgar 17 on the grounds that the latter’s estates lay more than 25 miles north of Riddlesworth, and passed to a different successor. He is differentiated from Ordgar 14 on the grounds that the latter’s nearest estate lay more than 20 miles away in a different shire and passed to a different successor.