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Leofweard 12

Name

Summary

Leofweard 12 was a small landowner in east Sussex whose ½ hide was worth 10 shillings.

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 Sussex	Phil. ref. 10,70	Vill Willingdon	DB Spelling Leuuard	Holder 1066 Leofweard 'of Willingdon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Ansfrid 'of Rotherfield'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Pre-Conquest Willingdon was a very large comital manor centred between the South Downs escarpment and the Pevensey Levels, but including scattered outliers in the Sussex Weald and elsewhere (Suss. 9:45, 67, 70, 91, 96, 101; 10: 8, 27, 70). Evidence survives to plot its freehold and copyhold tenements, starting with manorial surveys of the 1290s, but the exercise has not yet been carried out in any detail (Salzman 1960: 41).

In DB one component of Willingdon was the ½ hide held TRE by Leofweard ‘as if an alod’ (sicut alodium), recorded separately from the main manor because it lay in Pevensey rather than Willingdon hundred. That probably places it north-east of Willingdon, among the low-lying peninsulas and islands of the Levels. The nature of Leofweard’s connection with the holder of Willingdon proper, Earl Godwine (d. 1053) (Godwine 51) is not spelled out.

Bibliography

Salzman 1960: L. F. Salzman, ‘Early taxation in Sussex [part I]’, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 98 (1960), 29–43