Api 2

Api ‘of Timsbury’ (Som.), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
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Name

Api

Summary

Api 2 held two estates in north-east Somerset and west Wiltshire TRE with a combined assessment of 4 hides and with a value of 66s.

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
Somerset 5,15 Timsbury Ape Api 'of Timsbury' - Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances William de Monceaux 3.00 1.30 2.50 B Map
Wiltshire 53,2 Whitley Appe Api 'of Timsbury' - Gunfrid Mauduit - 1.00 2.00 2.50 B Map
Totals

Profile

Api 2’s largest manor was that of 3 hides at Timsbury, on the hills above the Cam Brook in north-east Somerset. Api is also recorded as the TRE holder of a small estate at Whitley, lying between two tributary streams of the River Avon and just to the south of the Wansdyke in west Wiltshire. These two estates were only 14½ miles apart and although they passed to different successors after the Conquest it is very probable that the TRE holders were the same man, particularly since these represent the only instances of the name Api in DB.

DB records that a manor of 2 hides at Timsbury held by Sibbi 3 TRE had subsequently been added to Api’s manor there, and the Thorns (1980: DB 5,15 Notes) point out that the one-third of a mill noted on Sibbi’s former manor in 1086 is probably the same mill as that for which two parts were then in Api’s former manor. However, this need not imply that the TRE holders or their manors were associated with each other; and although both Exon (140b2) and TO (518a2) state that Sibbi had held his manor in parage there is no such comment in relation to Api’s manor.

Bibliography


Thorn and Thorn 1980: C. Thorn and F. Thorn, eds., Domesday Book 8: Somerset (Chichester, 1980), DB 5,15 Notes.