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Wulffrith 2

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Summary

Wulffrith 2 held a manor at Shepton Mallet in Somerset TRE that was part of Glastonbury Abbey’s manor of Pilton and from which the land could not be alienated; it had an assessment of 6½ hides and a value of £7.

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. 8,20	Vill Shepton Mallet	DB Spelling Vluert	Holder 1066 Wulffrith 'of Shepton'	Lord 1066 Æthelnoth, abbot of Glastonbury	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thurstan, abbot of Glastonbury	1086 Subtenant Roger de Courseulles	Fiscal Value 6.50	1066 Value 7.00	1086 Value 7.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The DB entry relating to Glastonbury Abbey’s manor of Pilton in Somerset reads as if Wulffrith 2 was the TRE co-holder of its sub-manors at Shepton Mallet and Croscombe, but the Exon entry (165b3-166b) clarifies that he was in fact the holder only of Shepton. Both DB and Exon agree that Wulffrith ‘could not be separated from the church’, which implies that he was a dependent tenant of the abbey.

Although his 6½ hides will have made Wulffrith 2 a locally important holder, the TRE estates of Wulffrith 3 and Wullfrith 4 both seem too small and (at more than 60 miles) too distant for any of these three to be regarded as the same person.