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Dagobert 4

Name

Summary

Dagobert 4 held a small estate among the Welsh lands attached to Gloucestershire TRE, assessed at 1 carucate and with no value given.

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. W11	Vill Redwick	DB Spelling Dagobertus	Holder 1066 Dagobert 'of Redwick'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Bibliography

The precise location of Dagobert 4’s small estate is uncertain. DB does not name it, recording only as ‘in the king’s demesne’ among the Welsh lands annexed to Gloucestershire in 1086. However, Moore (1982: DB W,11 Notes) makes a good case for identifying it as the part of Redwick manor that was not held by the king’s reeve, and this is the identification adopted here. If this is correct, then Dagobert’s estate was beside the Severn Estuary and will have lain within an area corresponding to the later Welsh commote of Libennith.

This is the only occurrence of someone called Dagobert in DB. It is unusual to find someone with a Continental Germanic name in the Welsh borderlands TRE, and at present no explanation for the presence there of Dagobert 4 can safely be offered.