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Brunhyse 3

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Summary

Brunhyse 3 was a junior member of an important family of Lincoln burgesses, who himself had two rural manors as a partner of his brothers. If their shares were equal, Brunhyse had 3 carucates worth around £4 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 Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,11	Vill Harpswell	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Brunhyse 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 C	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,15	Vill Redbourne	DB Spelling Bruhise	Holder 1066 Brunhyse brother of Agemund	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzLambert	1086 Subtenant 1 man	Fiscal Value 2.38	1066 Value 4.33	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Brunhyse occurs only once in DB, where a large holding at Redbourne (Lincs.) was held as three manors TRE by Agemund, Brunhyse, and Skule. Agemund can be identified as a lawman and moneyer of Lincoln with a substantial rural estate (Agemund 7). Its details suggest that Brunhyse and Skule (Skule 10) were the brothers of Agemund mentioned but not named in an entry for Harpswell, where 2½ carucates were held as four manors by Agemund and Sigketil (Sigketil 2) and two other brothers. The order of brothers which can be inferred from the two entries (Agemund, Sigketil, Brunhyse, Skule) may represent their seniority. Their father Walraven (Walraven 6), still alive in 1066, was, like Agemund, a lawman and moneyer of Lincoln, and the family was clearly of some standing in the city.

Redbourne lies 17 miles north of Lincoln, athwart Ermine Street, one of a chain of parishes stretching from the river Ancholme west on to the wolds. Harpswell is 7 miles nearer Lincoln, the village located on the west-facing scarp of the wolds towards the Trent basin. Walraven’s sons dominated Redbourne, with well over half of its 12 carucates when the rest of the vill was divided among eight other small or very small holdings. At Harpswell they had 2½ carucates of a 6-carucate vill and most of the rest was attached as soke to Earl Edwin’s manor of Kirton in Lindsey. It is not known how Walraven’s sons divided the profits and geld payments of Redbourne and Harpswell between them, and unlikely that they had equal shares, though the fiscal assessments and values attributed to them here have been calculated on that basis. 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.

Despite the connection of Brunhyse 3’s father and brother with the coinage, it is on balance not likely that he was identical with Brunhyse 2, moneyer at Colchester in the issues assigned to the period 1044–56. Lincoln was a long way from Colchester and if (as suggested here) Brunhyse was a younger brother, it is improbable that he started striking coins at Colchester a decade or more before his older brother Agemund at Lincoln.