Ealdbeorht 23

Ealdbeorht ‘of Cerne’ (Dors.), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
4 of 5

Name

Ealdbeorht

Summary

Ealdbeorht 23 held one estate in west Dorset TRE assessed at 3 hides and with a value of 60s.

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
Dorset 26,64 Catherston Leweston Aldebertus Ealdbeorht 'of Cerne' - Robert, count of Mortain William de Lestre 3.00 3.00 3.00 B Map
Totals

Profile

Ealdbeorht 23’s estate is called Cerneli in DB, implying that it lay on one of the two Dorset rivers originally called Cerne.  IG(17a2) names the TRW subtenant of Robert 9 to whom it passed as William de Lestre (William 117) and this in turn identifies the estate as Catherston Leweston, on a hill overlooking the mouth of what is now the River Char in east Dorset, the second part of the place-name deriving from the family-name Lestre (Thorn and Thorn 1983: DB 26,64 Notes; Mills 2010: 368-9).

As well as the 3 hides held by Ealdbeorht TRE the DB entry notes that William also held a further ½ hide in the same vill that had been part of the demesne farm of Cerne; as the Thorns (ibid.) suggest, the reference is presumably to an estate temporarily alienated from Cerne Abbey.  It is therefore possible that Ealdbeorht’s estate was or had once been in the abbey’s lordship, but further evidence would be needed to establish this one way or another.

Cerneli was Ealdbeorht 23’s only estate and no-one else of that name is recorded in DB.

Bibliography


Mills 2010: A. D. Mills, The Place-Names of Dorset: Part Four (Nottingham, 2010)

Thorn and Thorn 1983: Domesday Book 7: Dorset, ed. C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1983)