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Cockhaghni 2

Name

Summary

Cockhaghni 2 was a small thegn whose compact estate in north Norfolk was assessed at 6 carucates and worth £5.

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 Norfolk	Phil. ref. 9,83	Vill Creake	DB Spelling Kochaga	Holder 1066 Cockhaghni 'of Creake'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Thurstan fitzGuy	Fiscal Value 4.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Norfolk	Phil. ref. 9,84	Vill Burnham	DB Spelling Kochagana	Holder 1066 Cockhaghni 'of Creake'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Humphrey de Culey	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.80	Confidence A	Map
Shire Norfolk	Phil. ref. 9,85	Vill Quarles	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Cockhaghni 'of Creake'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Thurstan fitzGuy	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	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 Norfolk	Phil. ref. 9,83	Vill Creake	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 25 sokemen	Lord 1066 Cockhaghni	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Thurstan fitzGuy	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Cockhaghni’s name appears only twice in DB, spelled Kochagana and Kochaga. The curtailed form is simply an error; the places concerned were in different hundreds, perhaps pointing to a hundredal source as the origin of the mistake.

Although in different hundreds, the two places adjoined one another, and we are clearly dealing with only one Cockhaghni. His smaller manor, Burnham, lay on the north Norfolk coast. Burnham was a straggling polyfocal settlement in 1086 and later, and the territory came to be divided into seven medieval parishes (Burnham Deepdale, Burnham Norton, Burnham Overy, Burnham Sutton, Burnham Thorpe, Burnham Ulph, and Burnham Westgate); it is not clear whether all those later divisions had already emerged by the late eleventh century, though Cockhaghni’s manor seems likely to have been in Burnham Deepdale in the north-west corner of the territory (Blomefield 1805–10: VII, 8–10).

Cockhaghni’s larger manor, Creake, was in the next vill south of the Burnhams, and evidently in the later parish of North Creake rather than South Creake (Blomefield 1805–10: VII, 66–70); he had 4 of the 10 carucates in the Creakes. The manor had a berewick of 1 carucate at Quarles immediately to the east.

Cockhaghni’s home farm at Creake was large, including five demesne ploughs and a flock of 230 sheep; the 12 slaves recorded for 1066 perhaps comprised ten ploughmen and two shepherds. Besides the villans and bordars who lived within the manor, he was lord of 25 sokemen in the vill.

Bibliography

Blomefield 1805–10: Francis Blomefield, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, continued by Charles Parkin, 2nd edn, 11 vols (London, 1805–10)