Doding 2

Doding ‘of Easton’ (Essex), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
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Name

Doding
Doding 3

Summary

Doding 2 held two manors in north-west Essex TRE that were assessed at a total of 2½ hides and with a value of £12.

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 29,1 Tilty Dodingus Doding 'of Easton' - Henry de Ferrers - 0.50 5.00 7.00 C Map
Essex 42,3 Easton Dodinc Doding 'of Easton' - Walter the deacon - 2.00 7.00 8.00 B Map
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Profile

The identification of Doding 2 is based on the close proximity of his two estates and the extreme rarity of his name. Despite that rarity, the only other TRE landholders called Doding held similarly small estates that lay 30 miles or more away from those of Doding 2 and so there is no reason to consider any connection between them.

The largest of Doding 2’s two manors was at Eistanes, probably Little Easton, in the valley of the River Chelmer in north-west Essex (Doubleday and Page 1903: 548). The other manor was just 2 miles further along the valley at Tilty; and, although the manors passed to different tenants-in-chief after the Conquest, the fact that they were so close together coupled with the extreme rarity of the name Doding renders it probable that they were held TRE by the same man.

The manor at Easton was entirely demesne and Doding had 6 ploughs on the arable there, with any grain and perhaps some of the pulses produced being processed at his mill; this was presumably on the Chelmer at what is now called Mill End. The pastoral side of the manor comprised sheep and goats along with a few cattle, with rich grazing for these on his meadows and pannage for his pigs in the woodland. He also had two horses, which will have been for riding rather than draught animals. The land was worked by his dependent tenants and their households, with DB recording the presence of 5 villans, 2 bordars and 7 slaves. It also records a priest present both TRE and in 1086, which probably but not necessarily indicates the existence of a manorial church.

Doding’s manor at Tilty had two ploughs working the demesne but also one for his dependent peasants, namely 3 villans and 2 bordars and 3 slaves. Here there was more meadow than at Easton and it was augmented by marshland, and so it was here that Doding had the majority of his cattle.

Bibliography


Doubleday and Page 1903: ed. H. A. Doubleday and W. Page, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 1, Victoria History of the Counties of England (London, 1903)