Sibbi 2

Sibbi ‘of Lincoln’, fl. 1066
Male
CPL
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Name

Sibbi
Sibbi 3

Summary

Sibbi 2 had what may have been a substantial urban estate in the upper town of Lincoln, but no rural manors.

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
Lincolnshire C23 Lincoln Sybi Sibbi 'of Lincoln' - William, king Alfred nephew of Turold 0.00 0.00 0.00 A Map
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Profile

Sibbi 3 appears only in a brief entry for the city of Lincoln, which notes that Alfred nephew of Turold (i.e. the Lincolnshire baron Alfred of Lincoln) had three tofts of Sibbi’s land (de terra Sybi), given him by the king, from which he had all the customary dues except the tax levied on moneyers called monetagium. ‘Tofts’ were clearly not exactly the same as ‘houses’ in DB’s account of Lincoln, but quite what they were is not clear.

Tenure by Alfred of Lincoln allows the tofts to be identified as what became the urban manor of Hungate and later the liberty of Beaumont Fee, retained by Alfred of Lincoln’s successors for centuries afterwards (Hill 1926; Hill 1948: 50, 101, 241). It occupied the south-west portion of the walled upper town of Lincoln, running down the hill south from what became after 1066 the site of the castle. DB seems to imply that it was confiscated by King William from Sibbi. Because Sibbi does not appear as a rural landowner in Lincolnshire, we can presume that he was an urban grandee. It is likely that the privilege of controlling all customs except the monetagium dated from Sibbi’s time.

Bibliography


Hill 1926: J. W. F. Hill, ‘The manor of Hungate, or Beaumont Fee, in the City of Lincoln’, Associated Architectural Societies’ Reports & Papers, 38 (1926–7), 175–208

Hill 1948: J. W. F. Hill, Medieval Lincoln (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948)