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Manna 11

Name

Summary

Manna 11 had a tiny holding in west Hampshire TRE assessed at 1 virgate and with a value of 10s; his lord was King Edward (Edward 15).

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. 45,5	Vill East Dean	DB Spelling Manno	Holder 1066 Manna 'of Dean'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Waleran the huntsman	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Manna 11’s tiny holding was one of six small estates at East Dean, in the Dun valley in the far west of Hampshire, all of which were held TRE by or from either King Edward (Edward 15) or his sister Countess Gode (Gode 2, who was dead by the time of the Conquest).  In the case of Manna’s holding DB states that he held it of King Edward, although whether he was in the king’s lordship by commendation or dependent tenure is not clear.

Manna’s holding had passed to Waleran the huntsman (Waleran 2) by 1086 (who also held other estates nearby) but DB notes that it ‘did not belong to any manor of his’, which suggests that Waleran’s acquisition of it may have been irregular.

The name Manna was not as rare as the PASE classification of head-forms suggests, which means that although Manna 11 and Manna 10 shared the same name and held estates that were probably less than 15 miles apart, the small sizes of those estates and the difference in their lords render it unsafe to presume that they were the same person; the possibility is noted here, but more evidence would be needed to press the case further.