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Alweis 1

Name

Summary

Alweis 1 had a very small estate in central Devon TRE assessed at 1 virgate and with a value of 5s.

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. 25,7	Vill Brushford	DB Spelling Alous	Holder 1066 Alweis 'of Brushford'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Goscelm of Exeter	1086 Subtenant Godfrey 'of Woodbeare'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Alweis 1’s estate was at Brushford, in the Taw valley to the east of Winkleigh in central Devon. It was one of four small TRE holdings called Brushford, but no connection between the holders can be discerned. The place-name derives from Old English brycg-ford ‘bridge, or causeway, ford’, and refers to the crossing of the river Taw here.

Alweis’s name was an Old French one, and as such 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 Helewis 1, whose Continental Germanic name may have been in its Old French form Heloise and was similarly spelt to that of Alweis in DB (Elous rather than Alous) but whose TRE manor was also very small and lay more than 30 miles from Brushford.