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Engelbert 6

Name

Summary

Engelbert 6 held a small estate in south-east Middlesex TRE assessed at 1¼ hides and with a value of 50s.  He was a canon of St Paul’s cathedral, holding his land as a dependent tenant of the bishop of London; he was still holding this estate in 1086, when its value was 40s.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Subtenant in 1086

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 Middlesex	Phil. ref. 3,6	Vill Stepney	DB Spelling Engelbricus	Holder 1066 Engelbert, canon of St Paul's	Lord 1066 William, bishop of London	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Maurice, bishop of London	1086 Subtenant Engelbert, canon of St Paul's, London	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Engelbert 6 was a canon of the cathedral chapter of St Paul’s, London, in which community an ecclesiastic with a continental name and probably origin would not be unusual (Page 1909: 409-10).

Engelbert’s small estate was at Stepney, named from what was then the only landing-place on the north bank of the River Thames to the east of London (Baker 1998: 5-7; Watts 2004: 574).  It was among numerous estates at Stepney TRE, of which the largest and many others were in the hands of the bishop of London, and Englebert was one of the bishop’s dependent tenants, unable to grant or sell his estate without the bishop’s permission.

He was still holding this estate in 1086, at which time there was one plough on the demesne and the estate had a dependent peasant population of six households, comprising those of one villan, four bordars and a cottar.  

This was the only instance of the name Engelbert recorded in DB as a landholder and there is no reason to consider Engelbert 6 in connection with any other person or estate, whether TRE or TRW.

Bibliography

Baker 1998: A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green, T. F. T. Baker (London, 1998)

Page 1909: A History of the County of London: Volume 1: London Within the Bars, Westminster and Southwark, ed. W. Page (London, 1909)

Watts 2004: The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, based on the collections of the English Place-Name Society, ed. Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)