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Merchion 2

Name

Summary

Merchion 2 held a small estate in north-eastern Cornwall TRE that paid tax for 1 ferling (although a half-virgate was there) and was valued at 10s.

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 Cornwall	Phil. ref. 5,24,23	Vill Carbihan	DB Spelling Merken	Holder 1066 Merchion 'of Carbihan'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Andrew 'of Carbihan'	Fiscal Value 0.33	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Merchion 2’s holding was probably small even if allowance is made for its apparent TRE under-assessment in Domesday Book, and it was the only estate held TRE by someone called Merchion. Its precise location is uncertain, however. The order of entries in Exon points to a place in Stratton Hundred in north-east Cornwall, perhaps in the vicinity of Norton and Moreton and therefore in the vicinity of Stratton itself. The place-name form given in DB, Carbihan, corresponds to the Old Cornish elements *ker ‘fort’ and byghan ‘small’ (Padel 1985: 21-2, 50-4) and probably refers to one of the numerous settlement ‘rounds’ in the area. Although Carvean, suggested as the location by Thorn and Thorn (1979: Notes to 5,24,23), may be of the same derivation, its location in Tybesta Hundred renders this unlikely.

Bibliography

Padel 1985: O. J. Padel, Cornish Place-Name Elements, English Place-Name Society 56/57 (Nottingham, 1985)

Thorn and Thorn 1979: Domesday Book 10: Cornwall, ed. C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1979)