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Eadhild 3

Name

Summary

Eadhild 3 was a free woman with two tiny holdings in south-east Suffolk TRE; the total assessment is uncertain but was perhaps 12 acres with a value of 2s.  On one holding, which she shared with two co-holders, she was probably commended to Northmann.

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. 3,91	Vill Wantisden	DB Spelling Edilt	Holder 1066 Eadhild 'of Wantisden'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.07	1066 Value 0.07	1086 Value 0.07	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,137	Vill Wantisden	DB Spelling Edilt	Holder 1066 Eadhild 'of Wantisden'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Northmann the sheriff	Fiscal Value 0.02	1066 Value 0.03	1086 Value 0.03	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Eadhild 3 occurs as the holder or co-holder of two small parcels of land at Wantisden, part of the expanse of fairly open land between the rivers Deben and Butley in south-east Suffolk.  In both entries she is recorded as a ‘free man’, a measure of her status rather than gender (Rumble 1986: 3,91 Notes).  Since DB records no other people called Eadhild in 1086 it is very probable that both of these tiny estates were held by the same woman even though they passed to different successors after the Conquest.

At the holding she held outright Eadhild 3 had 8 acres of land but DB provides no further details about either it or her.  On the second holding she was named third of three co-holders of 11 acres TRE, the others being Ælfric and Beorhtric; there is no way to determine if there was any further connection between the three holders nor as to how the land was divided between them, if at all.  Here they were under the commendation (sub commendati; the Phillimore edition renders this as ‘under the sub-patronage’ which is unnecessary) of Roger 6 Bigod’s antecessor, which probably refers to Northmann who was not only Roger’s subtenant in 1086 but also his antecessor for much of Roger’s lands in south-east Suffolk (Wareham 2005: 146-8).

Bibliography

Rumble 1986: Domesday Book 34: Suffolk, ed. A. Rumble (Chichester, 1986)

Wareham 2005: A. Wareham, Lords and Communities in Early Medieval East Anglia (Woodbridge, 2005)