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Ginni 3

Name

Summary

Ginni 3 was a free man with a minute holding in Suffolk TRE assessed at only 1½ acres ferling with a value of 3d; the king and the earl had the soke.

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. 8,64	Vill Langedana	DB Spelling Ghinius	Holder 1066 Ginni 'of Langedana'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger the Poitevin	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.01	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.01	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The precise location of Ginni 3’s holding is uncertain.  It was one of six tiny holdings in Bosmere Hundred called Langhedena or Langedana in DB, a name that probably represents Old English lang(an)-denu ‘long valley’ and generally referred to fairly narrow ones with a gentle gradient (cf. Gelling and Cole 2000: 113-14).  It is, however, difficult to determine which of the valleys of the Gipping and its minor tributaries is meant.

Ginni 3 was a free man, like all of those holding land at Langadana TRE; DB states that the king and the earl had the soke of his land, but no other details are forthcoming.  Although the name Ginni was extremely rare there is no reason to associate him with Ginni 2, the TRE holder of 2 houses in Colchester some 20 miles away, because both men’s holdings were far too tiny for any link between them to be considered

Bibliography

Gelling and Cole 2000: M. Gelling and A. Cole, The Landscape of Place-Names (Stamford, 2000)