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Brunsunu 2

Name

Summary

Brunsunu 2 was a small landowner in west Kent with ½ yoke worth 15 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. 5,10	Vill Farningham	DB Spelling Brunesune	Holder 1066 Brunsunu 'of Farningham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Mauger the man of Bishop Odo	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The forename Brunsunu occurs only once in DB, holding ½ yoke at Farningham, the smallest of four holdings in the vill (Kent 2:28, 5:13, 5:15). Farningham is on the North Downs, a long thin parish straddling the narrow valley of the river Darenth. Like the other two small proprietors in the vill, Brunsunu was free to dispose of his land; the largest of the holdings there had been given to the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, in the time of Archbishop Ælfheah (Ælfheah 44) (1006–12) (Brooks 1984: 287).

A minor curiosity is that a small manor in nearby Lullingstone, the next-but-one vill upstream from Farningham, belonged in 1066 to a man called Bruning. Given the rarity of the first element in their names it is tempting to speculate that Bruning and Brunsunu were related to one another.

Bibliography

Brooks 1984: Nicholas Brooks, The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1984)