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Haca 1

Name

Summary

Haca 1 held two small estates in Devon TRE with a combined assessment of slightly more than 1½ virgates (albeit with land for 8 ploughs) and a total 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. 21,10	Vill Pedley	DB Spelling Hache	Holder 1066 Haca 'of Blagrove'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Poilley	1086 Subtenant Ralph fitzJocelin	Fiscal Value 0.16	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Shire Devon	Phil. ref. 21,9	Vill Blagrove	DB Spelling Hache	Holder 1066 Haca 'of Blagrove'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Poilley	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Haca 1’s two estates both lay amongst the hills and valleys of north-central Devon, only about 3 miles apart from each other and both in Witheridge Hundred. The geld estimates for each seem slightly low relative to the TRW estimates of their ploughlands, so it may be that this is another example of the under-assessment for geld observed elsewhere in Devon and Cornwall.

Although the name Haca is not otherwise recorded from pre-Conquest England (except perhaps in a few place-names) the initial Hac- is consistent throughout the DB and Exon spellings and this strongly suggests that the name is distinct from that of Heca 4, sheriff of Devon TRE, the spellings of whose name have an equally consistent initial Hec-.