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Beornweald 12

Name

Summary

Beornweald 12 was a small landowner in east Kent whose single yoke of land was worth 12 shillings.

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. 5,216	Vill Each	DB Spelling Bernoltus	Holder 1066 Beornweald 'of Each'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Osbern fitzLetard	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.60	1086 Value 0.80	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Beornweald occurs only once in DB, as the owner of one of two small estates at Each, a mile or so west of the royal borough and port of Sandwich. Both manors comprised 1 yoke of land and were worth only a few shillings; the other one does not have its TRE owner recorded in DB (Kent 5:212). They presumably corresponded to the later hamlets and manors of Upper Each (now Each) and Nether Each (now Each End) but there is no means of deciding which Each was which (Hasted 1797–1801: X, 123–4).

Sandwich had a population of perhaps a couple of thousand, must have had extensive cross-Channel trading connections, and must have been supplied with foodstuffs from a hinterland which included Each. In light of those circumstances, the owner of Each may well have been a burgess of Sandwich rather than a rich peasant; and if he was a burgess he may well have had the Continental name Bernald rather than the English name Beornweald, though the latter remains a safer bet.

Bibliography

Hasted 1797–1801: Edward Hasted, The History and Topographical Survey of Kent, 2nd edn, 12 vols (1797–1801)