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Eadwulf 70

Name

Summary

Eadwulf 70 held an estate at Okeover from Burton Abbey in 1086 for a rent of 20s.

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

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Subtenant in 1086

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. 4,8	Vill Okeover	DB Spelling Eddulfus	Holder 1066 Leofric, abbot of Peterborough, Burton, Thorney, and Coventry	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Malaterra, abbot of Burton	1086 Subtenant Eadwulf	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Okeover in north Staffordshire was a possession of the monks of Burton, 25 miles up the Dove valley on the eastern county boundary from the site of the abbey. It was held of the abbey in 1086 ‘for rent’ (ad censum) of 20s. by Eadwulf. The entry lacks full details of population and resources, perhaps precisely because it was rented out, but the vill included land for 2 ploughteams, a mill on the Dove, and woods.

It is conceivable that Eadwulf 70 was the same man as Eadwulf 64, who before the Conquest had held a small manor 10 miles away in south Derbyshire, an area where Burton abbey had property.

Eadwulf was very probably the father of Orm of Okeover, to whom Abbot Nigel of Burton (1109–1114) granted a lease of the manor for two lives, an unusual term which suggests that a predecessor of Orm had already held the estate (Wrottesley 1904: 3–7, 127–9).  

Bibliography

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Stafford, IX, ed. Nigel J. Tringham (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2003)

Wrottesley 1904: