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Eadstan 26
Eadstan ‘of Lincoln’ (Lincs.), fl. 1066
Male
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Summary
Eadstan 26 held at least half a messuage in Lincoln TRE but no details of its value or any other property he may have held are recorded in DB.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 | C24 | Lincoln | Edstan | Eadstan 'of Lincoln' | - | William, king | Simeon, abbot of Ely | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | D | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
Eadstan 26 held property in Lincoln TRE, of which half a messuage that had passed to the abbot of Ely is recorded by DB in a list of those who ‘have not paid the king’s geld as they ought’ in 1086. The phrasing used, that the abbot ‘has this from Eadstan’s land’ (de terra Edstan), could imply that Eadstan had held other property in the city or elsewhere; but if so, then this is not recorded under his name in DB.Taking terra here to mean the same as feudum, Palmer et al. (2002: DB Lincs. C24 Notes; 57,10 Notes; 57,48 Notes) identified Eadstan 26 with Æthelstan son of Godramn, a substantial Lincolnshire landholder TRE, mainly because Fellows-Jensen (1985: 32-3) had argued that OE Æðel- might be represented by Ed- in DB. However, no other form of the name Æthelstan is spelt with Ed- in DB, in Lincolnshire or elsewhere, and nowhere else does the abbot of Ely appear as the successor to property held TRE by Æthelstan. Furthermore, both Eadstan and Æthelstan were common names and, especially in an urban context, an identity cannot be presumed solely on the basis of a similarity of name-forms. For these reasons, therefore, it is more likely than not that de terra Edstan in DB refers to the property of Eadstan 26.
Eadstan 26’s messuage lay about 90 miles from the property of any other person of that name TRE and there is no reason to consider him in connection with anyone else.
Bibliography
Fellows-Jensen 1985: G. Fellows-Jensen, ‘On the identification of Domesday tenants in Lincolnshire’, Nomina 9 (1985)
Palmer et al. 2002: J. Palmer, F. Thorn and C. Thorn, and N. Hodgson, Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086, 2nd edn (2002), currently published online by the UK Data Service https://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/catalogue?sn=5694