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Siduwine 3

Name

Summary

Siduwine 3 held a small estate in central Devon TRE with an assessment of ½ hide and a value of 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 Devon	Phil. ref. 16,98	Vill Ponsford	DB Spelling Seduuinus	Holder 1066 Siduwine 'of Ponsford'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Baldwin the sheriff	1086 Subtenant William Black	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Siduwine 3 was the TRE holder of ½ hide at Ponsford, in the Culm valley to the west of Cullompton in central Devon. This estate seems too small and too distant (more than 40 miles) from those of either Siduwine 2 (at Tamerlande) or Siduwine 4 (at Brixton) for its holder to be identified with either of them, and the fact that all three estates passed to different post-Conquest successors adds weight to this interpretation. 

Nevertheless, the extremely rare name Siduwine occurs nowhere else in DB except with regard to these three estates in Devon, and the possibility that all three instances refer to the same person rather than to two or three different people cannot entirely be ruled out. Furthermore, small estates at Peeke and Ponsford, adjacent to those of Siduwine 2 and 3 respectively, had TRE holders called Edwin; and although the name Edwin is not uncommon amongst TRE landholders in Devon – there are 11 such instances – it is odd that it is twice found in such close association with the rare name Siduwine. The association is tenuous, however, and is outweighed by the distances between the estates and difference in their successors.