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Huscarl 6

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Summary

Huscarl 6 had one estate assessed at ¾ hide in south Somerset 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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 25,6	Vill Street	DB Spelling Huscarl	Holder 1066 Huscarl 'of Street'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Moyon	1086 Subtenant Roger 'the man of William de Moyon'	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 0.38	1086 Value 0.38	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Huscarl 6’s estate lay in south Somerset at Street, which takes its name (Old English strēt ‘made road, Roman road’) from the Foss Way that here descends into the Axe valley.  The DB entry makes it appear that it was an estate of 1½ hides that he had shared with Almær TRE, but the corresponding entries in Exon(357a1) and TO(524b8) make it clear that Almær’s land had been added to that of Huscarl after the Conquest.  There is no reason to presume a connection between the two men TRE.

It is possible that Huscarl 6 was the same man as Huscarl 9, the TRE holder of another tiny estate less than 30 miles away and who retained it as a king’s thegn in 1086.  However, despite a very late and tenuous tenurial association between the two estates (see Huscarl 9) their small sizes reduce the likelihood that both were held by the same man at this distance and the fact that the name Huscarl was not exceptionally rare in the late eleventh century renders it more likely than not that Huscarl 6 and Huscarl 9 were different people.