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Scefa 4

Name

Summary

Scefa 4 had 1 virgate in west Hampshire TRE, which he held with power of alienation from 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. 69,20	Vill Michelton	DB Spelling Sceua	Holder 1066 Scefa 'of Michelton'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Edmund fitzPayn	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.13	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Scefa 4’s holding was after the Conquest added to another one called Mvlceltone ‘Michelton’ in DB that can be identified as the later manor of Roake, on the south bank of the Wallop Brook near the royal hundredal manor of Broughton in west Hampshire (Page 1911: 495; Coates 1989: 139). It is not clear if Scefa’s holding had also been called ‘Michelton’ nor indeed to what this name, from Old English micel-tun ‘great estate’, could originally have referred.

Despite its small size of one virgate, Scefa held his land in allodium of King Edward 15, implying that he had power of alienation of his land and was under the king’s lordship by commendation rather than dependent tenure. 

This was the only estate recorded in DB as being held TRE or in 1086 by someone called Scefa and there is no reason to consider him in connection with any other estate or person

Bibliography

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

Page 1911: A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4, ed. W. Page (London, 1911)