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Strang 2

Name

Summary

Strang 2 held a substantial estate on the Gloucestershire border with Wiltshire TRE, assessed at 10 hides and with a value of £15; his byname ‘the Dane’ implies that he was not of insular origin.

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. 73,1	Vill Shipton Moyne	DB Spelling Strang	Holder 1066 Strang the Dane	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Matthew de Mortagne	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 10.00	1066 Value 15.00	1086 Value 8.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Strang 2, termed ‘the Dane’ (danus) in DB, held a substantial estate TRE at Shipton Moyne, just on the Gloucestershire side of the Foss Way that forms the shire boundary with Wiltshire here. It was his only estate, and no-one else of that name is recorded elsewhere in DB or, indeed, from pre-Conquest England. Both his name and his byname indicate that he was a Danish incomer (rather than being of insular birth), and the most straightforward explanation is that he arrived in England as a follower of King Cnut or his sons at some point between 1016 and 1042.