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Thormund 2

Name

Summary

Thormund 2 held two estates in Dorset and Somerset TRE assessed for a total of 7½ hides and with a value of 100s.

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 Dorset	Phil. ref. 5,1	Vill Winterborne	DB Spelling Turmund	Holder 1066 Thormund 'of Winterborne'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Osbern Giffard	Fiscal Value 4.50	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 5,70	Vill Stowell	DB Spelling Turmund	Holder 1066 Thormund 'of Winterborne'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Azelin 'of Harptree'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

These are the only two estates held TRE by someone with the extremely rare name Thormund, and since they were of similar size, had by 1086 passed to the same successor, Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances  (Geoffrey 2), and were probably less than 20 miles apart it is reasonable to presume that they were held by one and the same man, Thormund 2.

The precise location of Thormund’s largest estate, comprising 4½ hides at Wintrebvrne, is uncertain because there were numerous estates called after the two Dorset rivers of that name. However, the Thorns (1983: DB 5,1 Notes) point out that Winterborne Clenston, on the eastern river, has the correct manorial descent for an estate held by Geoffrey 2 in 1086 and this suggestion has been adopted here for mapping purposes. Thormund’s other estate can be identified with much more confidence and was at Stowell, which as its name (Stanwelle in DB) suggests was among the springs in the hills of south-east Somerset.

Despite Thormund’s distinctively Old Danish name with its pagan connotations, there is no way of determining if he was an aging follower of King Cnut (Cnut 3) or his sons, a second-generation member of the same stock or an Englishman whose father was following the fashion for adopting Scandinavian names for their sons.

Bibliography

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