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Leofwaru 8

Name

Summary

Leofwaru 8 was a small landowner in west Suffolk with 100 acres valued at 20s. She was commended to the important thegn Wihtgar.

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. 25,84	Vill Withersfield	DB Spelling Leuiara	Holder 1066 Leofwaru 'of Withersfield'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Godard 'of Withersfield'	Fiscal Value 0.83	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The four small manors each held by a Leofwaru in 1066 are too distant from one another for any of their holders to have been the same woman. That applies even to the manors in Suffolk and Hertfordshire, some 25 miles apart, where different lords also tell against identification.

At Withersfield, on the low hills separating Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, Leofwaru had one of fourteen holdings in the vill, assessed at 100 fiscal acres. Along with a host of other small proprietors in Risbridge hundred, she had full power of alienation over her land but was commended to the important Suffolk thegn Wihtgar son of Ælfric (Wihtgar 10), who also had jurisdiction over all but six more serious crimes, reserved to the abbot of Bury St Edmunds (Suff. 25:78–105).