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Crawa 2

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Summary

Crawa 2 was a free man who held a very small estate in west Suffolk TRE assessed for 60 acres and with a value of 10s. Although he had the power of alienation over his lands, the commendation and the soke and sake were in the hands of his lord, Wihtgar son of Ælfric (Wihtgar 10).

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. 25,78	Vill Stansfield	DB Spelling Crawa	Holder 1066 Crawa 'of Stansfield'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Roger 'the man of Richard fitzGilbert'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Crawa 2’s was the smallest of three estates at Stansfield, 8½ miles to the south-west of Bury St Edmunds in west Suffolk, that were held by free men TRE and had passed to subtenants of Richard fitzGilbert (Richard 5) by 1086. DB notes that Crawa 2 and the other free men ‘could sell and grant their lands TRE’, showing that they had the power of alienation and were not dependent tenants; but it notes that Richard’s antecessor Wihtgar (Wihtgar 10) had Crawa’s commendation and the soke and sake, indicating that he was their lord.