Hadwig 4

Hadwig ‘of Gloucester’, fl. 1086
Male
CPL
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Name

Hadwig
Hadwig 3

Summary

Hadwig 4 held a house in Gloucester in 1086.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Subtenant in 1086

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
Gloucestershire G4 Gloucester Hadeuuinus - Edward, king William, king Hadwig 0.00 0.00 0.00 B Map
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Profile

A Hadwig (or Hadwine: the spelling is Hadeuuinus) was named in DB’s list of the holders of houses (mansiones) in Gloucester which had been in the king’s farm in 1066 but were removed from it by 1086 (Glos. G:4). Hadwine’s house, like one of the others, still paid rent (gablum) but not the other customary payments. The list covers only the king’s losses; it is not an attempt (as in some other boroughs) to detail all the holders of houses in the borough. Nor does it confine itself to houses which were appurtenant to rural manors. Only five of the twelve men listed held rural manors in Gloucestershire or adjoining shires as tenants-in-chief: Bishop Osbern of Exeter, Durand the sheriff, Roger de Lacy, William fitzBaderon, and Geoffrey de Mandeville. The others were not tenants-in-chief, though some of them may have held rural manors as subtenants. Arnulf the priest, Berner, Gosbert, William the bald, and William the scribe had French names; Dunning 13 and Hadwig were English. Probably all of them should be reckoned townsmen of Gloucester rather than holders of rural manors with attached urban houses.

Ruardean, held by Hadwig 3, was less than 15 miles from Gloucester but it is unlikely that they were the same person because of the lapse of time and the absence of any other evidence that Hadwig 3 survived in 1086. Their non-identity would be confirmed if Hadwig 4 were in fact called Hadwine.