Goldwine 9

Goldwine ‘of Cortesley’ (Suss.), fl. 1066
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Name

Goldwine
Goldwine 10

Summary

Goldwine 9 was a thegn with 6 or 7 hides worth £5 or a little more in east Sussex.

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
Sussex 10,28 West Burton Goluinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' Edward, king Robert, count of Mortain - 1.00 0.60 0.60 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu - 0.50 0.42 0.53 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu William 'the man of Robert, count of Eu' 4.50 3.75 4.76 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu Reinbert 0.50 0.42 0.53 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu Hugh the crossbowman 0.50 0.42 0.53 C Map
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Profile

The name Goldwine seems to occur twice as a TRE landowner, both times in Sussex. The one certain instance is spelled Golduuinus, holder of Cortesley with full power of alienation. Cortesley survived into modern times only as the name of a manor, but the place stood immediately west of the borough of Hastings and extended into both Hastings and its western neighbour Hollington. It was claimed in 1320 that the two knights’ fees comprising Cortesley had been lost to the sea (VCH Suss. IX, 84), locating at least part of Goldwine’s property along the coastline of what is now St Leonards.

Most of Cortesley was held in 1086 from the count of Eu by William de Saint-Leger (VCH Suss. IX, 84) and from William by Goduinus. The temptation to emend the latter to Golduinus and identify him with the pre-Conquest owner Goldwine (as VCH Suss. IX, 84) should be resisted: DB did not say (as it commonly did in such circumstances) that this was ‘the same’ Go[l]dwine, and the DB name must be treated as it stands, Godwine.

Some 15 miles west of Cortesley, on the South Downs a mile or two beyond Beachy Head, the much smaller manor of West Burton (probably locatable in the vicinity of Crowlink Farm in Friston: PN Suss. II, 421) was held TRE by Aluricus and Goluinus ‘from King Edward’, with power of alienation. The holding was of 2 hides and worth 24s. Probably, as von Feilitzen assumed (1937: 273), the scribe accidentally omitted the –d– in Goldwine’s name, and we are dealing with the same man as at Cortesley, since the name is rare and the distance not great. The alternative is that initial G– was a mistake for C–, the name Colwine, and the man in question distinct from Goldwine 9.

A moneyer called Goldwine was active during the Pyramids type (conventionally dated 1065–6) at Steyning (EMC: 1009.1079). Although the shire is the same, Steyning and Hastings are some 45 miles apart. The mint output from Hastings in Edward’s reign is very well represented in surviving coins (EMC) and there seems no possibility that Goldwine struck coins there. It is unlikely that the moneyer at Steyning was identical with the landowner near Hastings.

Bibliography


EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc

PN Suss.: A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton with J. E. B. Gover, The Place-Names of Sussex, 2 vols, English Place-Name Society 6 and 7 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1929–30)

VCH Suss. IX: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, IX, ed. L. F. Salzman (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1937)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)