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Trasmund 2
Trasmund ‘of Manston’ (Wilts.), fl. 1066
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Summary
Trasmund 2 held three estates in north Dorset and Wiltshire TRE with a combined assessment of 12 hides and with a value of £11.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 | 40,1 | Manston | Trasmundus | Trasmund 'of Manston' | - | Waleran the huntsman | Warenger 'of Manston' | 5.00 | 6.00 | 5.00 | B | Map |
| Dorset | 44,1 | Gold Hill | Trasmundus | Trasmund 'of Manston' | - | Osbern Giffard | - | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | B | Map |
| Wiltshire | 48,7 | Orcheston | Trasemundus | Trasmund 'of Manston' | - | Osbern Giffard | - | 5.00 | 4.00 | 5.00 | B | Map |
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Trasmund 2 was the TRE holder of a substantial estate of 5 hides at Manston on the River Stour in north Dorset. Another two estates were very probably held TRE by Trasmund 2 because they were the only others associated with that name in DB and because they were relatively close to Manston, although there are uncertainties about their precise identifications.
One was an estate of 2 hides at a place called Hille in DB and which IG (23b3) indicates was in Farrington Hundred in 1086. The Thorns (1983: DB 44,1 Notes) note that the usual identification of this Hille with Hill Farm in Iwerne Minster would place it in the wrong hundred and that the later manorial descent points instead to a place in or near to Child Okeford, for which Gold Hill seems to be the most suitable candidate. If so, then Hille was also near the River Stour and less than 1½ miles downstream from Manston. Given the extreme rarity of the name Trasmund and the very close proximity of the two estates it is very probable that both were held by the same man TRE even though they had passed to different successors by 1086, Manston being then held by Waleran the huntsman (Waleran 2) and Hille by Osbern Giffard (Osbern 23).
The succession of Osbern Giffard to Hille, however, increases the likelihood that the third estate held TRE by a Trasmund was again held by Trasmund 2, because this estate too passed to Osbern after the Conquest. The estate was one of 5 hides at Orcheston, near the head of the Till valley and the heart of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, and in this instance the problem of identification is the relatively minor one of whether this part of Orcheston lay in Dole or Heytesbury Hundred in 1086 (Thorn & Thorn 1979: DB 48,3; 48,7 Notes). In either case, the estate lay less than 25 miles from Manston and there is no real obstacle to identifying its TRE holder as Trasmund 2.