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Helewis 1

Name

Summary

Helewis 1 held ¼ hide in south Devon TRE with 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. 17,92	Vill Baccamoor	DB Spelling Elous	Holder 1066 Helewis 'of Baccamore'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Judhael of Totnes	1086 Subtenant Ralph de La Pommeraye	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Helewis 1’s tiny manor was at Baccamore, a ‘lost’ place near Cornwood on the south-western fringe of Dartmoor in south Devon. At some point after the Conquest it was merged with an adjacent manor of the same name and size (the details in the slightly ambiguous DB entry are clarified by Exon 331a3 and TO 505b3), but there is no evidence that the two TRE holders were connected.

Although Helewis’s name is given here in its Continental Germanic form it is possible that the DB and Exon spellings (Elous and Ealous respectively) represent it in its Old French derivative Heloise (Forssner 1916: 145; Thorn and Thorn 1985: DB 17,92 Notes). In either case, she joins the small group of such names evidenced in pre-Conquest south-west England. There is, however, no clear reason to associate her with Alweis 1, whose Old French name is similarly spelt in DB (Alous) but whose TRE manor was also very small and lay more than 30 miles from Baccamore.

Bibliography

Forssner 1916: T. Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

Thorn and F. Thorn 1985: Domesday Book 9: Devon, C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1985)