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Ebbi 3

Name

Summary

Ebbi 3 had a manor in south Gloucestershire TRE assessed at 2½ hides and with a value of 40s; his lord was Beorhtric son of Ælfgar (Beorhtric 36).

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. 6,1	Vill Iron Acton	DB Spelling Ebbi	Holder 1066 Ebbi 'of Acton'	Lord 1066 Beorhtric son of Ælfgar	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Ilger 'of Wootton'	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Ebbi 3’s estate was at ‘Acton Ilger’, a lost place that took its manorial suffix from the 1086 subtenant Ilger (%% Hildegar), in Iron Acton parish on the river Frome in south Gloucestershire (Smith 1964-5: 3 1-2). Moore (1982: DB 6,1 Notes) states that the location of Ebbi’s manor was adjacent to Iron Acton church rather than at ‘Algar’s Manor’ a short distance to the south-west, pointing out that the latter is an antiquarian invention of c.1900.

DB records that Ebbi was a man of Beorhtric son of Ælfgar (Beorhtric 36), a major thegn and landholder in the South-West TRE. The wording of the DB entry renders it more probable that Ebbi was commended to Beorhtric rather than being a dependent tenant of him.

Bibliography

Moore 1982: Domesday Book 15: Gloucestershire, ed. J. S. Moore (Chichester, 1982)

Smith 1964-5: A. H. Smith, The Place-Names of Gloucestershire, 4 vols. (Cambridge, 1964-5)