Tubbi 2

Tubbi ‘of Stoke’ (Bucks.), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
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Name

Tubbi
Tubbi 3

Summary

Tubbi 2 was the commended lord of a sokeman with a small estate in south 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 17,6 Stoke Poges Tubi 1 sokeman, man of Tubbi Tubbi William fitzAnsculf Walter 'the man of William fitzAnsculf' 1.00 0.60 0.50 C Map
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Profile

Tubbi 2 occurs in DB only in an entry noting that a sokeman on a small estate of 1 hide at Stoke Poges, on a minor tributary of the River Thames in south Buckinghamshire, was ‘his man’. Since the sokeman ‘could sell’ and thus was not in dependent tenure, Tubbi was presumably this man’s lord by commendation.

It is strange that although Tubbi 2 was the lord of this man he apparently held no other lordships nor even any land in his own right. DB records only one other person of that name and he was a very minor landholder 65 miles away TRE, while no person called Thorbiorn (of which the name Tubbi was a short form) occurs close enough to Stoke Poges to be considered either. The scope for speculation is broad, and Palmer et al. 2002 (DB Bucks. 17,6 Notes) raise the possibility that there are significant omissions in the DB text here; but perhaps the simplest explanation is that Tubbi was a local 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.

Bibliography


Palmer et al. 2002: J. Palmer, F. Thorn and C. Thorn, and N. Hodgson, Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086, 2nd edn (2002), currently published online by the UK Data Service https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=5694