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Fridebert 3

Name

Summary

Fridebert 3 held a small manor in south Buckinghamshire TRE assessed at 2½ hides and with a probable value of £3 6s 8d; he was the man of Earl Leofwine (Leofwine 69).

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 4,20	Vill Hanechedene	DB Spelling Fridebertus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Hanechedene'	Lord 1066 Leofwine, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Tedald	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 3.33	1086 Value 4.17	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Fridebert 3’s small manor was the larger of two estates at Hanechedene in Buckinghamshire, and if the TRE value was divided in proportion to their hidages then his manor will have been worth £3 6s 8d.  DB records that he was the man of Earl Earl Leofwine (Leofwine 69), but whether by commendation or dependent tenure is not entirely clear.  DB also notes that the smaller estate had unjustly been taken from its holders before the Conquest, and it is possible that Fridebert had attached it to his manor.

The precise location of Hanechedene has not been identified, although it was clearly in Desborough Hundred in south Buckinghamshire.  The suggestion that the DB place-name is a corruption of Old English hafoca-dene ‘(at the) valley of the hawks’ (Morris 1978: DB Bucks. 4,20 Notes) is probably correct; but attempts to identify it with Radnage or Winchbottom in Cheping Wycombe (Darby and Versey 1975: 22; Mawer and Stenton 1925: 191, 203) do not find support in the later manorial histories of either (cf. Page 1925: 89-92, 112-34).

Despite this uncertainty, Fridebert 3’s estate was fairly small and more than 40 miles from the nearest held by anyone else of that name TRE, none of whom were associated with Earl Leofwine, and so there is no reason to consider him in connection with any other person or estate.

Bibliography

Darby and Versey 1975: H. C. Darby and G. R. Versey, Domesday Gazeteer (Cambridge, 1975)

Mawer and Stenton 1925:A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Buckinghamshire (Cambridge, 1925)

Morris 1978: Domesday Book 13: Buckinghamshire, ed. J. Morris (Chichester, 1978)

Page 1925: A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 3, ed. W. Page (London, 1925)