Cynning 2

Cynning ‘of Dunbridge’ (Hants), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
4 of 5

Name

Cynning

Summary

Cynning 2 had a minute holding in Devon TRE assessed at only 1 ferling and with a value of 5s.

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
Hampshire 43,2 Dunbridge Chening Cynning 'of Dunbridge' Edward, king Gilbert de Breteuil - 1.00 1.26 1.26 B Map
Hampshire 43,3 Tytherley Chening Cynning 'of Dunbridge' Edward, king Gilbert de Breteuil Papald 1.00 0.50 0.50 B Map
Totals

Profile

Cynning 2’s two manors were at Dunbridge and ‘Tytherley’ (probably Holbury in East Tytherley: Page 1911: 515), which lay little more than 2 miles apart along the valley of the River Dun, a tributary of the River Test in west Hampshire.  This proximity, the uniqueness of Cynning’s name in DB and the fact that both manors passed to the same post-Conquest successor render it beyond reasonable doubt that both were held by the same man TRE. 

The DB entry for each manor records that Cynning ‘held it of King Edward in allodium’, implying that Cynning held them with power of alienation and was probably the king’s man by commendation rather than dependent tenure.

It is odd that Cynning’s manors were only 8½ miles from that of Cynna 5, the only other person DB records with a name based on a pet-form of one in Cyne-, and that the only other instances of such a name are Cynna 2-4, representing one or more local moneyers active between 997 and 1023 at Chichester and then Winchester.  Although it is tempting to suggest a connection between these instances, however, there is no supporting evidence for doing so.

Bibliography


Page 1911: A History of the County of Hampshire, ed. W. Page (London, 1911)