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Bicca 3

Name

Summary

Bicca 3 was a thegn with a very small manor in south Devon TRE, assessed at 1 virgate and with a value of 5s but over which he had the power of alienation.

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. 23,23	Vill Coleridge	DB Spelling Biche	Holder 1066 Bicca 'of Coleridge'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walter de Douai	1086 Subtenant Alric 'of Woodcombe'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

This is the only estate that DB records as being held either TRE or TRW by someone called Bicca (or Bica).

Bicca 3’s TRE manor at Coleridge was on the high ground to the north-west of Stokenham in south Devon, overlooking Start Bay. Bicca is described in DB as being able ‘to go where he wished with the land’, showing that he had the power of alienation over it. 

The Exon entry (349a1) describes Bicca as a thegn and the TO (at 504a1) notes that he held his manor in parage, which implies that was part of a shared inheritance in some way. If so then it might have been associated with the only other TRE estate at Coleridge, that of 1 virgate held by Ælgifu in both TRE and 1086, because DB records no population for Ælfgifu’s land and Thorn & Thorn (1985: DB 23,25 Notes) suggest that it was worked by some of the 3 bordars who lived on Bicca’s former manor in 1086.

Bibliography

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