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Sibbi 3

Name

Summary

Sibbi 3 was a minor thegn in east Somerset with a single manor of 2 hides worth 14s.

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. 5,15	Vill Timsbury	DB Spelling Sibe	Holder 1066 Sibbi 'of Timsbury'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant William de Monceaux	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 0.70	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Sibbi 3 held one of the three manors in the 10-hide vill of Timsbury in the low hills of north-east Somerset. The pattern of assessments and resources suggests that Timsbury had been divided first into two holdings of 5 hides, one of them later being further divided into shares of 3 hides and 2 hides. In 1066 Gunward 2 had the 5-hide manor, Api 2 the 3-hide manor, and Sibbi the 2-hide manor. There is a clear indication of the overall division in the quantities of meadow and pasture on the three estates in 1086. Gunward’s manor had 39 acres of each, Api’s 26 acres, and Sibbi’s 16 acres. The suspicion must be that the figure for Sibbi’s manor includes a scribal confusion of minims in the roman numeral which had changed xiii to xvi; that makes the totals for Sibbi’s and Api’s manors together 39 acres, the same as for Gunward’s manor, and means that their half of the total was divided between them in the proportions 1:2. They shared a mill worth 5s. in the same proportions. The fact that Sibbi held in parage (Exon: 140v) b2) further confirms the existence of some close connection with Api. All three landowners’ names at Timsbury in 1066 were of Scandinavian derivation, and Sibbi and Api were of similar form.