Dachelin 2

Dachelin ‘of Nyland’ (Dors.), fl. 1066
Male
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Name

Dachelin

Summary

Dachelin 2 was one of three men holding in parage an estate in north Dorset TRE assessed at 2 hides and with a value of 20s.

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 33,2 Nyland Dachelin Dachelin 'of Nyland' - Thurstan fitzRolf Ranulph 'the man of Thurstan fitzRolf' 0.67 0.33 0.33 B Map
Totals

Profile

The small estate that Dachelin 2 held in parage with Eadric and Alweard was at Nyland, which as its Old English name īeg-land implies was a virtual island in the marshy ground between the River Cale and the Bow Brook in north Dorset and on the border with Somerset (Mills 1989: 42).  Two other estates brought the total assessment of Nyland to 5 hides TRE but these holdings have no obvious connection to that in which Dachelin had a share.

The 2 hides that Eadric, Dachelin and Alweard shared TRE were held in parage, which implies that they were co-heirs of the estate and hence presumably related in some way.  To find a small-scale landholder with an apparently Continental Germanic or Old French name such as Dachelin in pre-Conquest southern England is unusual but not extraordinary (Lewis 1995: passim).  What is rather more unusual, however, is to find them as apparently part of a family with otherwise Old English names.  One would dearly like to have more evidence with which to flesh out this particular story!

Bibliography


Lewis 1995: C. P. Lewis, ‘The French in England before the Norman Conquest’, Anglo-Norman Studies 17 (1995), 123-44

Mills 1989: A. D. Mills, The Place-Names of Dorset: Part Three (Cambridge, 1989)