Helghi 2

Helghi ‘of Owthorpe’ (Notts.), fl. 1066
Male
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Name

Helghi
Helghi 3

Summary

Helghi 2 was a small landowner in south Nottinghamshire with holdings of less than 1 carucate worth £2.

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
Nottinghamshire 9,111 Owthorpe Helge Helghi 'of Owthorpe' - Roger de Bully William 'the priest, man of Roger de Bully' 0.50 1.50 1.50 B Map
Nottinghamshire 9,98 Bingham Helga Helghi 'of Owthorpe' - Roger de Bully - 0.35 0.50 0.33 B Map
Nottinghamshire 9,99 Shelford - Helghi 'of Owthorpe' - Roger de Bully - 0.19 0.00 0.00 B Map
Totals

Profile

The two holdings only 5 miles apart along the Foss Way in south Nottinghamshire clearly belonged to the same Helghi, a different person from his namesake in distant Sussex. The more valuable of the two was Owthorpe, on the wolds, which had a low assessment of only ½ carucate but included land for 3 ploughs and was worth 30s. Most of Owthorpe was soke of the large manor of Shelford (Notts. 12:21) but there was a second ½-carucate manor with the same assessment and value as Helghi’s manor. At Bingham, Helghi and Hoga (Hoga ) had two manors comprising land for 1 plough worth 20s. The assessment was given as five and two thirds bovates; it so very nearly made up a round 4 carucates with the other manor in Bingham (3 carucates 2½ bovates) that a small error in one or other of the figures is likely: either Hoga and Helghi’s land was really 5½ bovates, or the other manor was 3 carucates and two and a third bovates. In either case, the way in which the assessment was divided almost matched the division of the vill’s arable into shares of 1 and 5 ploughlands.