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Sigeweald 14

Name

Summary

Sigeweald 14 was a free man with about 10 acres divided between two adjoining vills in coastal Suffolk, and commended to Northmann, sometime sheriff of Suffolk.

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 Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,117	Vill Levington	DB Spelling Siuuoldus	Holder 1066 Sigeweald 'of Colneis'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant William de Bourneville	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.06	1086 Value 0.06	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,92	Vill Kembroke	DB Spelling Siuuoldus	Holder 1066 Sigeweald 'of Colneis'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.05	1066 Value 0.03	1086 Value 0.03	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The adjoining vills of Kembroke and Levington on the Colneis peninsula between the estuaries of the Orwell and Deben in south-east Suffolk were occupied entirely in 1066 by free men each with a few acres of land, amounting to 124 acres in Kembroke and 56 acres in Levington. It may be significant that the two vills together were reckoned as 180 acres, exactly 1½ carucates; they probably also shared use of the heaths which lay between the fields of Levington along the Orwell estuary and Kembroke a couple of miles inland (Hodskinson 1783: sheet XI). One of the three names which occurs in both vills (among twenty-seven different names all told) was Sigeweald. Given the rarity of the name it can hardly be doubted that they were the same person. At Kembroke he was listed first among five men with 30 acres worth 3s.; at Levington sixth among nine with 32 acres worth 10s. (though the text says there were ten). Both groups of free men were commended to Northmann, sometime sheriff of Suffolk, who had a sizeable manor near by at Walton and dozens of commended men on the peninsula. It is impossible to say how much land was farmed by any one individual, but Sigeweald may have had in the order of 10 acres.

Bibliography

Hodskinson 1783: Joseph Hodskinson, The County of Suffolk Surveyed (London, 1783), ed. D. P. Dymond, Suffolk Records Society 15 (1972)