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Alwynn 4

Name

Summary

Alwynn 4 had a holding in east Suffolk TRE assessed at just 15 acres and with a value of 2s. 

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. 6,51	Vill Great Glemham	DB Spelling Aluuem	Holder 1066 Alwynn 'of Glemham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert Malet	1086 Subtenant Robert de Glanville	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 0.10	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Alwynn 4 is identified because her holding was too small and, at more than 60 miles, too distant from any other held TRE by a woman of that name for any connection between them to be considered.

Alwynn 4’s lands lay among numerous small holdings on either side of a tributary of the River Alde at Great Glemham in east Suffolk, but whether her lands were interspersed with those of the other holdings or formed a discrete unit is unknown.

The scant DB entry for Alwynn 4’s holding records her as a lib[er] ho[mo], a ‘free man’, a term referring to her status rather than her gender. Although it also spells her name as Aluuem, the final ‘m’ is probably a scribal error for ‘nn’ and there is no reason to doubt that the name intended really was the feminine Alwynn (von Feilitzen 1937: 160-1). 

DB records that the soke of this holding belonged to the abbot of Ely in 1086; whether this was also the case before the Conquest and when Alwynn held the land is not stated, although it seems more likely than not.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala, 1937)