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Eadwulf 67

Name

Summary

Eadwulf held from the king a messuage in Mottisfont which his father had held TRE.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

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. 69,25	Vill Mottisfont	DB Spelling Eddulf	Holder 1066 unnamed father of Eadwulf	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Eadwulf, king's thegn	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.03	1086 Value 0.03	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

An unusual entry among the lands of the king’s thegns in Hampshire tells us that in 1086 Eadwulf held as an alod (in alodio) from the king a messuage (masura) in Mottisfont which his (unnamed) father had held TRE. There is no entry for the king’s manor of Mottisfont, on the lower Test about 12 miles upstream from Southampton, only one for its minster church, which had been separated from the manor and was held by the archbishop of York both before the Conquest and in 1086 together with its dependent chapels and estate of 4¾ hides (Hants 4:1; Hase 1988: 63 note 27). Mottisfont is also implied by the entry for the king’s nearby manor of Broughton (Hants 1:21). East Dean belonged to Broughton (Hants 1:22) and the chapels at both places were among those listed in the entry for Mottisfont church and indeed long remained dependent upon it (VCH Hants, IV, 503, 509). Although the entry for Broughton listed only its own manorial resources, the valuation of ‘what belongs to this manor’ (quod pertinet huic M), at £76 16s. 8d. TRE and £104 12s. 2d. in 1086, certainly included a much larger area than Broughton alone.

In Hampshire, masura was used (with several other terms) for urban properties in the boroughs of Winchester (Hants 16:7; 39:3), Southampton (Hants 29:5), and Twynham (i.e. Christchurch) (Hants 1:28; 17:1–2), but also for rural properties. At Eling, sixteen villans’ mansurae and three bordars’ had been taken into the New Forest (Hants 1:27) and at Bowcombe on the Isle of Wight the church’s lands included twenty masurae bordariorum (Hants IoW1:7). The masurae in these entries were clearly peasant houses and crofts. Eadwulf’s masura at Mottisfont was indeed occupied in 1086 by a border who paid 7d. The wording implies that the bordar was not Eadwulf himself, but there is no other mention of Eadwulf in Hampshire in 1086.

Bibliography

VCH Hants, IV: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: The Victoria History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, ed. William Page [and H. A. Doubleday], 5 vols and index (London, 1900–14)