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Weland 2

Name

Summary

Weland 2 was a minor thegn who had a tiny manor in north-east Devon TRE, assessed at 1 virgate and 1 ferling but with no value given.

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. 3,76	Vill Coombe	DB Spelling Welland	Holder 1066 Weland 'of Coombe'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Drew fitzMauger	Fiscal Value 0.31	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Weland 2 represents the only instance of this name in DB; indeed, it appears to be the only pre-Conquest occurrence of the name to survive outside heroic poetry and place-names. TO 502a1 describes Weland as a thegn and states that he held his land in parage.

The precise location of Weland’s tiny estate (described as a ‘manor’ in Exon 133a3) is uncertain. It is called Come in DB, which records that it had been added to the manor of Celvertesberie by 1086, and both IG 68b3 and the Exon order of entries imply that both were then in Bampton Hundred (Thorn and Thorn 1985: DB 3,73-79 Notes). The Thorns’ suggestion that the DB place-names represent Colston and Coombe in Templeton (now in Witheridge Hundred) has much to recommend it and has been adopted here for mapping purposes, but this remains open to question.

DB also records that Weland’s former manor had been added to Calvertesberie before 1086, but Exon describes it as by then ‘unoccupied’.

Bibliography

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