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Ealdwine 17

Name

Summary

Ealdwine 17 was a middling thegn with two manors in the Cotswolds, of 8 hides worth £9.

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. 39,13	Vill Eastleach Turville	DB Spelling Alduinus	Holder 1066 Ealdwine 'of Eastleach'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Lacy	1086 Subtenant William Devereux	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 6.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 45,1	Vill Yelford	DB Spelling Alduinus	Holder 1066 Ealdwine 'of Eastleach'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walter fitzPons	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The two manors ascribed to Ealdwine near the eastern edge of the Cotswolds on the borders of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire are close enough to one another for them to have belonged in all probability to the same person. Eastleach Turville, one of two holdings in the vill, though the only one named ‘Leach’ in DB (VCH Glos. VII,), was a substantial manor of 5 hides worth £6 which included downland grazing on the Cotswolds in the north and arable fields by the river Leach in the south. Nearby in west Oxfordshire the three manors held in 1086 by Walter fitzPons (Yelford, Westwell, and Alwoldesberie) were said in DB to have been held by Ealdwine, Sæweald, and Edwin. It has been presumed here that Ealdwine held the first, Sæweald the second, and Edwin the third of those places. Yelford was in fact the furthest of the three from Eastleach, but still only 12 miles distant. Alwoldesberie (a lost place in Alvescot: VCH Oxon. XV, 8) was 4 miles from Eastleach, while the common downland of Westwell adjoined that of Eastleach. Any of these three manors in combination with Eastleach made Ealdwine 17 a comfortably-off middling thegn. There are no links of succession or otherwise with the Ealdwines to the south-west and south in Wessex, and on balance Ealdwine 17 held only these two manors.

Bibliography

VCH Glos. VII: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Gloucester, VII, ed. N. M. Herbert (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1981)

VCH Oxon. XV: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Oxford, XV: Carterton, Minster Lovell, and Environs (Bampton Hundred, Part 3), ed. Simon Townley (London: Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2006)