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Cadian 2

Name

Summary

Cadian 2 was a substantial Welsh landowner in Archenfield, annexed to Herefordshire in the earlier 1060s.

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 Herefordshire	Phil. ref. 1,53	Vill Kilpeck	DB Spelling Cadiand	Holder 1066 Cadian 'of Kilpeck'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant William fitzNorman	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The Welsh name Cadian occurs just once in DB, as the holder of one of the ‘vills or lands’ (villæ vel terræ) in Archenfield (Ergyng in Welsh), a culturally and linguistically Welsh territory which probably came definitively under English rule only with Earl Harold’s defeat of Gruffudd ap Llywelyn in 1062–3 (Lewis 1985: 158–62).

Cadian’s lands were centred at Kilpeck, in the north-west corner of Archenfield on the Worm brook, which in 1066 evidently formed the boundary between Archenfield and the hidated but non-hundredal territory of the Golden Valley. Judging from its resources in 1086, when 57 men had 19 ploughteams (besides the 3 ploughs and 6 slaves of William fitzNorman’s home farm), Kilpeck was an extensive holding and probably covered all the western side of Archenfield, down the river Monnow almost as far as its mouth. Cadian was thus locally an important figure.

Bibliography

CPL, ‘English and Norman government and lordship in the Welsh borders, 1039–1087’ (Oxford University D.Phil. thesis, 1985)