Earnwulf 5

Earnwulf ‘of Latton’ (Essex), fl. 1066
Male
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Name

Earnwulf
Earnwulf 4
Earnwulf 6

Summary

Earnwulf 5 was a free man holding a manor in west Essex TRE assessed at 1¾ hides and with a value of 50s.

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
Essex 20,13 Latton Ernulfus Earnwulf 'of Latton' - Eustace, count Adelulf de Marck 1.75 2.50 3.00 C Map
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Profile

Earnwulf 5’s manor was the smallest of three estates at Latton, on rising ground extending south from the River Stort in west Essex.  Earnwulf’s manor can be identified as Mark Hall in the north of Latton because it takes its name from the family of the post-Conquest subtenant, whose descendants probably also held half the advowson of the church recorded in DB (Reaney 1935: 44; Powell 1983: 186-95; Palmer et al. 2002: DB Essex 20,13 Notes).  The TRE hidage assessments of the three estates (4½, 2¾ and 1¾ hides) together with the advowson being divided between the smaller two (which amount to 4½ hides) suggest that the TRE situation resulted from successive divisions of an earlier 9-hide estate.

DB describes Earnwulf 5 as a free man, which probably but not certainly means that he did not hold his land in dependent tenure.  The entry also implies that his manor was predominantly arable, albeit with appreciable extents of associated woodland and meadow.  The two ploughs present TRE were both on the demesne, with labour presumably provided by the dependent peasant households of one villan and two bordars together with four slaves.

Earnwulf’s manor was fairly small and 25 miles or more from any estate associated with another person with the same name TRE, none of which passed to the same post-Conquest successor, and so despite the extreme rarity of that name there is no reason to consider Earnwulf 5 in connection with any other person or estate.

Bibliography


Palmer et al. 2002: J. Palmer, F. Thorn and C. Thorn, and N. Hodgson, Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086, 2nd edn (2002), currently published online by the UK Data Service https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=5694

Powell 1983: A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8, ed. W. R. Powell (London, 1983)

Reaney 1935: P. H. Reaney, The Place-Names of Essex (Cambridge, 1935)