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Colsege 2

Name

Summary

Colsege 2 was a free man with a tiny holding in north Essex TRE assessed at about 70 acres and with a value of 40s.

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 23,28	Vill Boyton	DB Spelling Colsege	Holder 1066 Colsege 'of Boyton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Swein of Essex	Fiscal Value 0.58	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Colsege 2’s little holding was the only one recorded by DB at Boyton, on the low watershed between the rivers Pant and Colne in north Essex.  Later known as Boynton Hall it lay near the meeting-point of the parishes associated with the estates at Finchingfield, Sible Hedingham, Toppesfield and Wethersfield and probably originated as a sub-holding of one of them.  It was regarded as a manor in its own right by 1086, however, and DB describes Colsege simply as a ‘free man’ with no indication as to lordship TRE.

Colsege’s estate was primarily an arable one.  He had two ploughs on his demesne and there were a further three ploughs on the land of the peasants, who comprised one villan and seven bordars with their households and together with four slaves provided the estate’s workforce.  There was also a small area of woodland and 8 acres of meadow for the oxen of the plough-teams.

No other person is recorded with the name Colsege in DB, nor is there any reason to associate him with a person of similar name.