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Sigketil 2

Name

Summary

Sigketil 2 was a junior member of an important family of burgesses in Lincoln. His two rural estates were assessed at a little over 1½ carucates and worth some 29 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 Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,11	Vill Harpswell	DB Spelling Sichet	Holder 1066 Sigketil brother of Agemund	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzLambert	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.63	1066 Value 0.11	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,12	Vill Hackthorn	DB Spelling Sighet	Holder 1066 Sigketil brother of Agemund	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzLambert	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.06	1066 Value 1.34	1086 Value 1.79	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Lord 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 Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,13	Vill Hackthorn	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 Sigketil	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzLambert	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Sigketil, spelled Sichet and Sighet, appears in DB only in two consecutive entries in Lincolnshire. At Harpswell, Agemund and Sigketil ‘and two other brothers’ held four manors of 2½ carucates; at Hackthorn and Cold Hanworth, Sigketil and Beorhtgifu held two manors of 2 carucates 1 bovate. A further link between the places in question in addition to Sigketil’s name is that another 4 bovates at Hackthorn and Cold Hanworth were soke of Harpswell.

Sigketil’s brother Agemund can be identified as the important Lincoln lawman and moneyer Agemund son of Walraven (Agemund 7) their father Walraven (Walraven 6) was also a lawman and moneyer of the city. Sigketil was thus a member of a significant urban family, and his minor rural holdings should be seen as an incidental adjunct to his (unknowable) urban wealth.

The two places where he held land stood along Ermine Street on the limestone escarpment of the Edge north of Lincoln: Hackthorn and Cold Hanworth (from nineteenth-century boundary evidence once a single unit) some 6 miles from the city, running eastwards from the Edge to the river Witham, Harpswell 8 miles further on, and on the western side of the Edge, sloping down into the Trent basin. Sigketil and Beorhtgifu’s joint holding at Hackthorn and Cold Hanworth was the largest in the much-divided double vill. The relationship to Sigketil (if any) of Beorhtgifu, who had no other lands, is unknown: conceivably she was his sister. The assessment and value of Sigketil’s manors have been calculated on the basis that all shares in each place were equal, though in fact that is very unlikely to have been the case.

The TRE value given for Harpswell (9s.) was very low in relation to its assessment (2½ car.) and 1086 value (50s. plus 10s. extra) and may be a mistake: conceivably .ix. solid’ was a miscopying of .lx. solid’: 60 shillings is a more likely valuation for the size of the holding.