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Esbern 9

Name

Summary

Esbern Croc (Esbern 9) was a small landowner in east Nottinghamshire, holding 5 bovates of land worth 42 shillings.

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 Nottinghamshire	Phil. ref. 21,1	Vill East Stoke	DB Spelling Sbern	Holder 1066 Esbern Croc	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Berenger de Tosny	1086 Subtenant Ralph 'the man of Berenger de Tosny'	Fiscal Value 0.31	1066 Value 0.60	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Shire Nottinghamshire	Phil. ref. 21,2	Vill Syerston	DB Spelling Sbern	Holder 1066 Esbern Croc	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Berenger de Tosny	1086 Subtenant Godwine 'of Syerston'	Fiscal Value 0.31	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Esbern 9’s manors are securely identified as belonging to the same Esbern: they were barely two miles apart in the Trent valley just above Newark and passed to the same Norman, and in both entries Esbern was identified by his byname Croc. Croc was a personal name of Danish origin (originally a nickname from krokr ‘a hook’) used in both England and Normandy before 1066 (Tengvik 1938: 216; Adigard des Gautries 1954: 221–3, 366, 455–6; PASE: Croc 1–6). It was probably the name of Esbern’s father, used as a patronymic byname. Esbern Croc’s estates were too isolated for him to be identified with any other Esbern.

Bibliography

Adigard des Gautries 1954: J. Adigard des Gautries, Les noms de personnes scandinaves en Normandie de 911 à 1066, Nomina Germanica 11 (Lund, 1954)

Tengvik 1938: Gösta Tengvik, Old English Bynames, Nomina Germanica 4 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1938)