Eadwulf 60

Eadwulf ‘of Barton St David’ (Som.), fl. 1066
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Name

Eadwulf
Eadwulf 61

Summary

Eadwulf 60 was a middling thegn with eight manors concentrated in Somerset but extending to Wiltshire and Devon, in all assessed at around 25 hides and worth £24.

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
Devon 16,124 Hole Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Baldwin the sheriff Otelin 0.50 0.00 0.25 C Map
Somerset 19,24 Donyatt Adulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Robert, count of Mortain Drew 'of Montacute' 2.00 1.67 1.67 C Map
Somerset 19,76 Poyntington Adulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Robert, count of Mortain William de Courseulles 2.50 1.50 2.00 C Map
Somerset 21,78 Cheddar Adulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Roger de Courseulles Robert 'the man of Roger de Courseulles' 2.25 2.00 1.50 C Map
Somerset 46,21 Barton St David Iadulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Edmund fitzPayn - 3.50 6.00 3.00 C Map
Somerset 46,21 Barton St David - Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Mauger de Carteret - 1.00 0.00 0.00 C Map
Somerset 46,22 Pitcote Iadulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Edmund fitzPayn - 3.50 4.00 4.00 C Map
Wiltshire 4,1 North Tidworth Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Odo, bishop of Bayeux Odo 'the man of Bishop Odo' 5.00 4.50 4.50 D Map
Wiltshire 4,2 Woodhill Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Odo, bishop of Bayeux Odo 'the man of Bishop Odo' 6.00 4.00 4.00 D Map
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Profile

Eadwulf 60 is identified primarily on the basis of the concentration within a single region of eight manors of broadly similar size and value. Even so, the proposed identification involves an estate stretching over seventy miles from the Blackdown Hills on the Devon/Somerset border to Salisbury Plain and seems rather scattered for a total assessment of only 25 hides. It is conceivable that the two Wiltshire manors belong to a different Eadwulf, making Eadwulf 60’s estate more concentrated, almost entirely within 20 miles of Barton St David, which was both central and the most valuable manor. Another possibility is that the westerly outlier at Hole, high in the Blackdown Hills and waste in 1066, did not belong to Eadwulf 60 but to some other Eadwulf (but hardly Eadwulf 61, whose compact estate was thirty miles away).

What does not work as a solution to the west country Eadwulfs is dividing up the manors on the basis of either spelling or succession. Going by spelling (and excluding Hole) would produce two Somerset Eadwulfs with 7 hides and 9¾ hides whose estates interlocked and stretched over 15 and 25 miles respectively. Dividing them up by Norman successor is also unsatisfactory, since it would increase the Somerset and Wiltshire Eadwulfs to four; the Norman honors into which these manors passed seem to have been created by geographical grants rather than antecessorial ones, so that we should not expect all the holdings of any given Eadwulf to pass to a single Norman. Five tenants-in-chief succeeded Eadwulf 60. Baldwin the sheriff’s lands were almost entirely confined to Devon: he received Eadwulf’s only Devon manor. Robert, count of Mortain, had what amounted to a castlery in south Somerset: he got Eadwulf’s two manors which lay east and west of his castle at Montacute. Roger de Courseulles’s fief in north-west Somerset took in Eadwulf’s manor there. Bishop Odo had only scattered manors in the west country: he received Eadwulf’s two Wiltshire manors, in a district some distance from the heartland of Baldwin, Count Robert, and Roger. The last two of Eadwulf’s manors came to the king’s serjeant Edmund fitzPayn.

Much of Eadwulf 20’s property was in good farming country. Two of his estates were closely associated with royal manors: Donyatt was part of a little cluster of estates which each owed one sheep and its lamb for each hide to the king’s manor of Curry Rivel (Som. 19:17–18, 23–25, 27, 29); and Cheddar must surely once have been part of the great royal manor of Cheddar, mentioned in Alfred’s will, which perhaps still included an important royal residence (BE: 100–2).

Bibliography


BE: The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, and Donald Scragg (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)