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Leofhild 3

Name

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

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 Staffordshire	Phil. ref. 17,20	Vill Shushions	DB Spelling Levild	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Leofhild ‘of Shushions’	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.20	1086 Value 0.20	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Leofhild 3 was listed among the king’s thegns in DB as the holder of a tiny estate at Shushions, in a shallow tributary valley of the Wiston Brook in the hills of west Staffordshire; the place-name derives perhaps from Old English scēot-stān ‘shooting stone’ (Smith 1956: 107). No TRE holder is recorded for the estate but, since it was unusual for a woman to hold land as a king’s thegn except as a widow, it may be that her husband or a close family member had held it TRE and from whom it then passed to her. Leofhild’s estate did not endure for long as a separate holding after 1086 and at some point in the following century became a possession of Wenlock Priory, which had been refounded in c.1082 (Wrottesley 1883: 103). There is nothing to associate Leofhild 3 with any other woman of that name or with any other estate.

Bibliography

Smith 1956: A. H. Smith, English Place-Name Elements, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1956)

Wrottesley 1883: Staffordshire Historical Collections: Volume 4, ed. G. Wrottesley (1883)