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Huscarl 4

Name

Summary

Huscarl 4 held a large estate in north-east Gloucestershire TRE assessed at 10 hides and attributed a value of £8.

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 Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 34,3	Vill Clopton	DB Spelling Huscarle	Holder 1066 Huscarl 'of Clopton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William Goizenboded	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 10.00	1066 Value 8.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Huscarl 4’s estate was at Lower Clopton, lying between the Gran Brook and the western slopes of Meon Hill in what was then north-east Gloucestershire but was later transferred to Warwickshire.  The adjacent estate at Upper Clopton lay within a royal manor TRE and it may be that Huscarl’s estate had originated from a royal grant; but if so there is no further indication of this in DB or subsequent records.  DB records that a burgess in Winchcombe belonged to this estate, although the context implies that this refers to the situation in 1086 and that the connection with Winchcombe need not have existed when Huscarl held the estate.

Although substantial, his estate lay more than 70 miles from any other held TRE by someone called Huscarl and the name was not exceptionally rare in the late eleventh century, so there is no reason to consider Huscarl 4 in connection with any other person or estate.