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Godrun 2

Name

Summary

Godrun 2 was a small landowner in north Somerset whose single manor of 3½ hides was worth £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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 19,60	Vill Carlingcott	DB Spelling Godeman	Holder 1066 Godrun 'of Carlingcott'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Richard fitzTurolf	Fiscal Value 3.50	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The TRE landowner’s name at Carlingcott, on the Cam brook some six miles north of the Mendips in north Somerset, has not hitherto been recognized as Godrun. The scribe of the entry in Exon initially wrote the name as Goderana, then substituted an o over the first a to change it to Goderona (though mistakenly placed a dot under the n instead of the a) (Exon 276b2). The scribe of GDB misread or miswrote the name as Godeman, i.e. Godmann, a male name which may well have been more familiar to him than Godrun. The Exon form, however, should take priority.

The other occurrences of the name in the Domesday material, in Winchester in 1066 and Oxford in 1086, and as the name of a Suffolk peasant’s mother, are too far from Somerset for any connections to be possible.