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Colswein 8

Name

Summary

Colswein 8 had an estate in south-east Kent TRE assessed for 2 sulungs and with a value of £10; he held it of King Edward (Edward 15), perhaps as a dependent tenant.

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 Kent	Phil. ref. 5,193	Vill Swanton	DB Spelling Coloen	Holder 1066 Colswein 'of Swanton'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Ralph de Courbépine	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Kent	Phil. ref. 5,193	Vill Swanton	DB Spelling Coloen	Holder 1066 Colswein 'of Swanton'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Ralph de Courbépine	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Colswein 8’s estate was at Swanton, on the high ground and chalk of Lydden Hill in south-east Kent.  DB states that he held it of (tenuit de) King Edward (Edward 15), which suggests that Colswein was a dependent tenant of the king.  It was his only estate, the nearest other one held TRE by anyone else of that name lying more than 80 miles away.  The spelling of his name in DB (Coloen) is an unusual but explicable scribal variation (von Feilitzen 1937: 75-6, 106-7, 218, 307).

Bibliography

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