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Gundrada 3

Name

Summary

Gundrada 3 was a small landowner on the coast of west Sussex, whose single holding of 4 hides was worth £1.

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. 11,72	Vill Goring	DB Spelling Gondrede	Holder 1066 Gundrada 'of Goring'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Robert fitzTheobald	Fiscal Value 4.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Gundrada occurs only once TRE, holding one of five estates centred at Goring, on the coast of west Sussex between the Arun and Adur estuaries (Suss. 11:70–73; 13:10, 38). Goring was a complicated place in 1066: two of the holdings (not Gundrada’s) were berewicks of large manors situated along the coast to the east, Steyning and Sompting (Suss. 11:70; 13:10, 38); three of them (including Gundrada’s) included land which can be located at Holt, on the downs north of Goring itself, which was detached after the Conquest, placed in William de Braose’s rape, and attached to Clapham in 1086 (Suss. 13:16; Lewis forthcoming); and some or all of them included Wealden outliers far to the north, scattered along Stane Street in the later parishes of Pulborough, Billingshurst, and Slinfold, the last at Dedisham some 20 miles from Goring (Lewis forthcoming; cf. Chatwin and Gardiner 2005).

Gundrada’s 4 hides included 1½ evidently at Holt and occupied by peasant tenants; it is not clear whether the other 2½ hides were entirely at Goring proper or included land in the Weald: in 1086 the holding had only 1 demesne plough and 2 villans.

Gundrada 3 shared a name with the wife of the Norman magnate William de Warenne, who had the Sussex rape of Lewes among his other acquisitions in England. Gundrada de Warenne was from the Flemish nobility (Lewis 2004) and probably already married by 1066: it is not at all likely that it was she who held a small manor at Goring TRE.

Bibliography

Chatwin and Gardiner 2005: Diana Chatwin and Mark Gardiner, ‘Rethinking the early medieval settlement of woodlands: evidence from the western Sussex Weald’, Landscape History, 27 (2005), 31–49

C. P. Lewis, ‘Warenne, Gundrada de (d. 1085)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007)

Lewis forthcoming: C. P. Lewis, ‘The Norman Conquest and the formation of manors and parishes in Sussex: a case study’ (forthcoming)