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Boda 3

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Summary

Boda 3 held four estates in Wiltshire and Hampshire TRE with a combined assessment of 3¾ hides and a probable value of about £4 15s; the two largest of his estates he held in alod under the lordship of King Edward (Edward 15). Boda survived the Conquest but lost his original estates, holding instead another small estate nearby 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

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 Hampshire	Phil. ref. 23,56	Vill Binsted	DB Spelling Boda	Holder 1066 Boda 'of Dean'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Hugh de Port	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence D	Map
Shire Hampshire	Phil. ref. 45,6	Vill East Dean	DB Spelling Boda	Holder 1066 Boda 'of Dean'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Waleran the huntsman	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.25	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 37,14	Vill Alderbury	DB Spelling Bode	Holder 1066 Boda 'of Dean'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Waleran the huntsman	1086 Subtenant Engenulph 'of Whaddon'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.10	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence B	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 68,33	Vill Alderbury	DB Spelling Bode	Holder 1066 Boda 'of Dean'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Edward 'of Alderbury'	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.17	1086 Value 0.17	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Hampshire	Phil. ref. 23,43	Vill Over Wallop	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Eadric, sheriff of Wiltshire	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh de Port	1086 Subtenant Boda	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Boda 3’s largest estate was of 2¼ hides at East Dean, in the Dun valley in the far west of Hampshire, which he held in alod TRE under the lordship of King Edward (Edward 15). This estate had passed to Waleran the huntsman (Waleran) by 1086, who also held West Dean on the Wiltshire side of the shire border.

The name Boda was extremely rare, and so it is very probable that Boda 3 was also the TRE holder of a virgate at Alderbury in south-east Wiltshire and only 5 miles from East Dean, that passed to one of Waleran’s subtenants. If so, then it is equally probable that Boda 3 was the same as the man of that name who held another virgate in Alderbury TRE, even though this one passed to a different successor, Edward.

Given the extreme rarity of Boda’s name and the reasonable size of his estate at East Dean, it is also more likely than not that he was the same as the Boda who held another estate in alod under King Edward’s lordship TRE, in this instance 1 hide at Binsted in the east of Hampshire. Although this passed to a different post-Conquest successor, Hugh de Port (Hugh 10), the distance of 32 miles between East Dean and Binstead is perhaps not too far for them to have been held by the same man.

A connection with Hugh de Port is also relevant in the identification of the only other reference to someone called Boda in DB, because this Boda was Hugh’s subtenant on a small estate of 1 hide at Over Wallop in west Hampshire in 1086. Since Over Wallop is only 7 and 10 miles respectively from Boda 3’s TRE estates at East Dean and Alderbury, the balance of probability is in favour of identifying these men as one and the same, Boda 3, who had survived the Conquest but with a somewhat diminished estate.