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Bosi 3

Name

Summary

Bosi 3 was a free man with a manor in north-west Essex TRE assessed at 2½ 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 Essex	Phil. ref. 90,22	Vill Rockells Farm	DB Spelling Boso	Holder 1066 Bosi 'of Wyggepet'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Bosi 3’s estate was at Wyggepet, which can be identified with the modern Rockell’s Farm in north-west Essex, on a Roman road close to where it crosses Wicken Water towards Great Chesterford (Reaney 1935: 526-7).  DB records that Bosi was a free man and held his land ‘as a manor’ but reveals little else about him.  His manor was among those appropriated by Geoffrey de Mandeville (Geoffrey 5) before 1086.

This was the only estate recorded in DB as being held TRE by someone called Bosi (although Bosi 2 occurs as a patronymic in Norfolk and Bosi occurs as an erroneous spelling for Bisi 3, these relate to places more than 40 miles from Rockells), so there is no reason to consider Bosi 3 in connection with any other estate or person.

Bibliography

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