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Hadwig 2

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Summary

Hadwig 2 was a small landowner in north Herefordshire. What was probably the larger of his two manors was in a shared vill for which Domesday gives only a combined hidage and value: a rough estimate is that he had in the region of 1½ hides worth £1 10s.

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. 10,62	Vill Wormsley	DB Spelling Haduic	Holder 1066 Hadwig 'of Chadnor'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Lacy	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.10	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence C	Map
Shire Herefordshire	Phil. ref. 8,5	Vill Chadnor	DB Spelling Haduuinus	Holder 1066 Hadwig 'of Chadnor'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ralph de Tosny	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.11	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.83	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

In theory the spellings Haduuinus and Haduic ought to represent different names (Hadwine and Hadwig), but in fact the two estates in question are only 3 miles apart, among the hills between the Wye and Lugg valleys in north central Herefordshire. Wormsley was divided into four small estates in 1066, of which Hadwig’s was the smallest at 1 virgate, but he had full power of alienation and (unusually) the holding did not pay geld. With land for one plough, the holding was clearly a peasant farm. At Chadnor, Hadwig held one of three manors (being named second among their owners) in a vill of 3 hides and a third of another hide. The separate hidations of the three manors were probably edited out during the writing of GDB. Whatever the size of Hadwig 2’s manor at Chadnor, his total holding in central Herefordshire was too small for him to be identified with Hadwig 3 at the southern tip of the shire, 25 miles away, with any confidence.

A moneyer called Heþewi struck coins at Hereford of William I’s Type V (‘Two Stars’), which has notional dates of 1079–81 (Brooke 1916: I, p. ccxii and plate XI no. 15; II, 62, no. 320). The spelling probably stands for Hadwig rather than an archaic Heaðuwig (von Feilitzen 1937: 288) and may be the same person as Hadwig 2. If so, he could be characterized as a prominent burgess of Hereford with a small rural estate 6 or 7 miles outside the city. That might help explain the concession of freedom from geld for his farm at Wormsley.

Bibliography

Brooke 1916: George Cyril Brooke, A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum: The Norman Kings, 2 vols (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)