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Eadwulf 61

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Summary

Eadwulf 61 was a small landowner in central Devon, with three manors assessed at less than 1 hide in all and worth £2 10s. He apparently survived the Conquest, holding a single small manor a few miles away directly from the king, to whom he paid 10s. rent in 1086.

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 16,115	Vill Martin	DB Spelling Iadulf	Holder 1066 Eadwulf 'of Fursham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Baldwin the sheriff	1086 Subtenant Richard fitzTurolf	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 16,60	Vill Beetor	DB Spelling Eddulfus	Holder 1066 Eadwulf 'of Fursham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Baldwin the sheriff	1086 Subtenant Ansger the man of Baldwin the sheriff	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.25	Confidence A	Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 16,93	Vill Fursham	DB Spelling Eddulf	Holder 1066 Eadwulf 'of Fursham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Baldwin the sheriff	1086 Subtenant unnamed monks of Mont Saint-Michel	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 1,72	Vill Down St Mary	DB Spelling Adolfus	Holder 1066 Boia 'of Down'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Eadwulf	Fiscal Value 0.38	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The proximity of these three small manors on the northern side of Dartmoor argues strongly for the identification of Eadwulf 61 as their owner TRE. Fursham and Martin are only a couple of miles apart, with Beetor lying 6 miles to the south at about 950 feet, just below the open moorland. The three holdings were quite large, with land for thirteen ploughs in all, but this was poor farming country and they were low in value (only 50s. all told) and, as usual in Devon, lightly assessed at 1 virgate each. All three manors passed to Baldwin the sheriff, but that does not help confirm the identity of Eadwulf 61, given that Baldwin received so much property in mid Devon. Baldwin also had possession of Hole, well over 30 miles away on the Somerset border, but that is much too far away to have belonged to a minor landowner like Eadwulf 61.

Eadwulf may well have survived the Conquest. Only some 8 miles north of Fursham a manor which can be identified as Down St Mary (Uluardesdone, i.e. ‘Wulfweard’s Down’, in GDB) was held directly from King William in 1086 by an Eadwulf (Hadulfus at Exon 109v., changed by the GDB scribe to Adolfus). Such a holding would normally have been listed among the king’s thegns; it was placed at the end of the section of the Terra Regis listing the manors which had been Queen Matilda’s (and before her Beorhtric son of Ælfgar’s) because it was listed with her manors in Exon, almost certainly by mistake.

The proximity of this Eadwulf to the pre-Conquest Eadwulf 61 makes it more likely than not that it was the same man, though their identity cannot be stated more confidently than that. In 1086 he farmed at Down St Mary with two ploughteams and two slaves, had small amounts of meadow, pasture, and woods, and kept a few animals.