Andrac 2

Andrac ‘of Soberton’ (Hants), fl. 1066
Male
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Name

Andrac

Summary

Andrac 2 had an estate in south Hampshire TRE assessed at 2 hides and with a value of 30s; he had the power of alienation over his land and 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
Hampshire 56,1 Soberton Andrac Andrac 'of Soberton' Edward, king Henry the treasurer - 2.00 1.50 3.00 C Map
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Andrac 2’s estate was one of four TRE estates at Soberton, among the hill-spurs and low ground along the east bank of the River Meon in south Hampshire.  The place-name Soberton derives from Old English sūð-beretūn ‘south grange farm’ and originally referred to its status in relation to a royal estate that included the hundredal manor of Meonstoke; this royal estate was clearly diminished by 1066, although Soberton long remained a chapelry of Meonstoke church (Astle et al. 1802: 211; Coates 1989: 151; Lavelle 2004: 15). 

DB records that Andrac ‘could go where he wished’, implying that he had the power of alienation over his land rather than being a dependent tenant, but also states that he ‘held of King Edward’ (Edward 15); Andrac was presumably under the king’s lordship by commendation.

The precise form of Andrac’s name remains uncertain but was very probably continental in origin and so the same may well have been true of the man himself.  

Bibliography


Astle et al. 1802: T. Astle, S. Ayscough and J. Caley, eds., Taxatio Ecclesiastica Angliae et Walliae Auctoritate P. Nicholai VI, circa A.D. 1291, Record Commission (London, 1802)

Coates 1989: R. Coates, The Place-Names of Hampshire (London, 1989)

Lavelle 2004: R. Lavelle, ‘All the king’s men? Land and royal service in eleventh-century Wessex’, Southern History 26 (2004)