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Beorhthun 9

Name

Summary

Beorhthun 9 was a small landowner in north Shropshire who held a single virgate, recorded as waste TRE.

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. 4,23,15	Vill Preston Brockhurst	DB Spelling Bertunt	Holder 1066 Beorhthun 'of Preston Brockhurst'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Gerard de Tournai-sur-Dives	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Beorhthun occurs only once in DB, as the holder of a single virgate, waste both TRE and in 1086, at Preston Brockhurst, 8 miles north of Shrewsbury on the north Shropshire plain. A second, larger, holding at the same place was in the hands of the brothers Hunning ( and Wulfgeat, important landowners in the shire.

Given the size of his estate, land for ½ plough rated as 1 virgate, Beorhthun was presumably a peasant whose holding was for some reason separately assessed for the geld.