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Wilgrip 7

Name

Summary

Wilgrip 7 held a modest thegnly estate in central Staffordshire and Shropshire, divided among four manors with a total assessment of 6¾ hides and a value of a little over £3.

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 Shropshire	Phil. ref. 4,23,1	Vill Kynnersley	DB Spelling Willegrip	Holder 1066 Wilgrip 'of Church Eaton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Gerard de Tournai-sur-Dives	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.05	1086 Value 0.90	Confidence B	Map
Shire Shropshire	Phil. ref. 4,3,4	Vill Great Wytheford	DB Spelling Wilegrip	Holder 1066 Wilgrip 'of Church Eaton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Reynold de Bailleul	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 0.70	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Staffordshire	Phil. ref. 11,32	Vill Ingestre	DB Spelling Widegrip	Holder 1066 Wilgrip 'of Church Eaton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert of Stafford	1086 Subtenant Hugh fitzConstantius	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 0.38	1086 Value 0.38	Confidence B	Map
Shire Staffordshire	Phil. ref. 11,65	Vill Church Eaton	DB Spelling Wilegrip	Holder 1066 Wilgrip 'of Church Eaton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert of Stafford	1086 Subtenant Godric 'of Ranton'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The four small estates assigned to Wilgrip 7 are strung out across 25 miles of quite poor countryside between Shrewsbury and Stafford, but the rarity of the personal name makes a convincing case that only one landowner is involved. Not of the four places was more than 10 miles from the next, and the group as a whole comfortably added up to more than 5 hides of land. The succession of Earl Roger to the Shropshire manors and Robert of Stafford to the Staffordshire ones is no help in confirming the identity.

The largest of these manors was Church Eaton, central to the estate, and a place of some local significance. Wilgrip was the only landowner in the vill, and his manor is likely already to have included the church implied by the fact that a priest was recorded in 1086. Church Eaton had extensive arable (enough for 7 ploughs) and some woodland and meadow. Elsewhere on the estate, Kynnersley had a share of the rich pastures of the Weald Moors (e.g. VCH Salop. XI, 141, 155), Great Wytheford stood among extensive heaths north-west of Shrewsbury, and Ingestre was on the upper Trent and included part of a watermill. Wilgrip 7 was the only landowner at Kynnersley but shared the ownership of Great Wytheford and Ingestre, being named second of two holders in both places.

There are no links between Wilgrip 7 and his namesake in Suffolk.

Bibliography

VCH Salop. XI: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of Shropshire, XI, ed. G. C. Baugh (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1985)