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Hearding 8

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Summary

Hearding 8 and Tovi were free men commended to King Edward (Edward 15) and who between them held a very small estate of 22½ acres in Suffolk TRE.  

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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. 29,9	Vill Horswold	DB Spelling Hardincus	Holder 1066 Hearding 'of Horswold'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger d'Auberville	1086 Subtenant William brother of Roger d'Auberville	Fiscal Value 0.10	1066 Value 0.20	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

This estate is very small and is far from all others held by someone called Hearding TRE except for that of Hearding 9 at Covehithe, 27 miles away; Hearding 9’s small estate had a different lord TRE and a different successor in 1086, and for these reasons alone it is unlikely that Hearding 9 and Hearding 8 were the same person.  Although Hearding 8 was commended to King Edward, who was also the lord of Hearding 10, their lands lay far apart, were not of similar size and passed to different successors.  Hearding 8’s association with someone called Tovi might arouse suspicions of an identification with Hearding 4, son of Eadnoth, who had close associations with the estates of his father’s colleage Tovi, the TRE sheriff of Somerset; but although the name Hearding is extremely rare it does not seem reasonable to associate Hearding 8 with Hearding 4 on these grounds alone, especially when the scale of their land-holding was so vastly different. Furthermore, the spelling Hardincus in the Domesday entry for Horswold is unique and may add further weight to the likelihood that Hearding 8 was distinct from the other people of that name.