Sweting 9

Sweting ‘of Garsington’ (Oxon), fl. 1086
Male
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Name

Sweting
Sweting 8
Sweting 10

Summary

Sweting 9 held 1½ hides worth 40s in south Oxfordshire in 1086 from Abingdon Abbey in 1086.

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
Oxfordshire 9,8 Garsington Sueting Ordric, abbot of Abingdon - Reynold, abbot of Abingdon Sweting 'of Garsington' 1.50 2.00 2.00 B Map
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Profile

Sweting 9 had a small estate of 1½ hides worth 40s in south Oxfordshire in 1086, which he held as the subtenant of Abingdon Abbey, and in DB the entry follows one for 7½ hides at Garsington and describes Sweting’s estate as ‘in the same vill’. However, in a list of late eleventh-century abbey tenants owing knight-service at Windsor Castle given in the later Abingdon Chronicle, the 7½ hides at Garsington are followed by 1½ hides at Wheatley on which Sueting avus Matthiæ ‘Sweting grandfather of Matthew’ owed knight-service (Stevenson 1858: ii 3-5). It is not clear, therefore, if Sweting’s lands formed a part of the abbey’s estate at Garsington or of its adjacent one at Cuddesdon, within which Wheatley lies (Lobel 1957: 96-116; Kelly 2000: 293-8, 374-5, 583). In either case, however, it is unlikely that Sweting 9 was the same man as Sweting 10, who held land about 13 miles to the north-east of Garsington, because the latter’s holding was very small and the men had different lords.

Bibliography


Kelly 2000: S. E. Kelly, ed., Charters of Abingdon Abbey, 2 vols, Anglo-Saxon Charters 7-8 (Oxford, 2000)

Lobel 1957: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 5: Bullingdon Hundred, ed. M. D. Lobel (London, 1957)

Stevenson 1858: J. Stevenson, ed., Chronicon Monasterii de Abingdon, Rolls Series 2, 2 vols (London, 1858)