Ingold 5

Ingold ‘of Horsenden’ (Bucks.), fl. 1066?
Male
DWP
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Name

Ingold
Ingold 4
Ingold 6

Summary

Ingold 5 was the lord by commendation of a sokeman with an estate in west Buckinghamshire TRE, but is not recorded as holding land in his own right and may have been dead by the time of the Conquest.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Lord 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
Buckinghamshire 12,2 Horsenden Ingoldus 1 sokeman, man of Ingold Ingold Robert, count of Mortain Ralph 'the man of Robert, count of Mortain (in the East Midlands)' 4.75 3.52 1.76 C Map
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Profile

Ingold 5 occurs in DB only in an entry noting that one of three sokemen on an estate at Horsenden, in the Vale of Aylesbury in west Buckinghamshire, was ‘his man’. Since all three sokemen ‘could sell’ and thus were not in dependent tenure, Ingold was presumably this man’s lord by commendation. Of these three holdings, that of Ingold’s man was by far the largest; indeed, his 4¾ hide estate was larger than all the other five holdings recorded by DB at Horsenden combined.

It is strange, then, that although Ingold 5 was the lord of this one moderately well-off landholder he apparently held no other lordships nor even any land in his own right. DB records no other person of that name in association with land in Buckinghamshire or even within 100 miles of Horsenden TRE. The scope for speculation is broad; but perhaps the simplest explanation is that Ingold was a significant landholder who had died before the Conquest but who, for some reason and as with some of the estates of Earl Godwine (Godwine 51) (d. 1053), was recorded by DB with regard to this particular entry.

The situation is thus similar to that with regard to Ingold 6, although this does not provide sufficient grounds to consider a possible connection between them despite the rarity of the name Ingold.