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Herling 3
Herling ‘of Tarrant’ (Dors.), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
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Summary
Herling 3 held an in east Dorset TRE assessed at just over 10 hides and with a value of £13.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 | 6,3 | Tarrant Keyneston | Herling | Herling 'of Tarrant' | - | Gilbert, bishop of Lisieux | - | 10.17 | 13.00 | 13.00 | E | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
Herling 3’s estate was one of fourteen holdings called ‘Tarrant’ in DB, named from the river Tarrant in east Dorset. Herling’s estate can be identified by the manorial affix Keyneston, which derives from the family into which the TRW holder’s granddaughter married (Mills 1980: 122-3; Thorn and Thorn 1983: DB Ch6 Notes.).It is difficult to determine if the three instances of the name Herling recorded as TRE landholders in DB represent one, two or three people. The extreme rarity of the name and a Continental Germanic one at that favours a minimalist interpretation whereas the opposite is suggested by the fact that all three estates passed to different post-Conquest successors. Other factors are that the DB forms here assigned to Herling 2 both reflect the Romanic spelling ‘eng’ in the final element (von Feiltizen 1937: 51, 248, 290) whereas that for Herling 3 does not, and that Herling 2’s estates lay only 21 miles apart whereas both lay about 50 miles away from Tarrant Keyneston (although given the large size of Herling 3’s estate this might not be considered significant). None of this evidence is conclusive; but the balance of probability is just in favour of regarding Herling 3 and Herling 2 as different men.
Bibliography
Mills 1980: A. D. Mills, The Place-Names of Dorset: Part II (Cambridge, 1980)
Thorn and Thorn 1983: Domesday Book 7: Dorset, ed. C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1983)
von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)