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Grene 2

Name

Summary

Grene 2 was a small landowner in west Sussex whose single holding of 2¼ hides was worth 55s, and was held from Earl Harold.

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. 13,41	Vill Cokeham	DB Spelling Grene	Holder 1066 Grene 'of Cokeham'	Lord 1066 Harold, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Briouze	1086 Subtenant Ralph fitzTheodoric	Fiscal Value 2.25	1066 Value 2.75	1086 Value 2.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Grene occurs only once in DB, holding the larger of two parts of the vill of Cokeham, on the Sussex coast west of the mouth of the Adur. Like other vills hereabouts, Cokeham stretched from meadowland near the coast through rich arable on the coastal plain and up the dip-slope of the South Downs (VCH Suss. VI (1), 53–4).

Unusually for Sussex, Grene held Cokeham from (de) Earl Harold, part of a small cluster of manors so held in this part of Sussex, but the meaning of the phrase is not transparent.

Bibliography

VCH Suss. VI (1): The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Sussex, VI, Part I, ed. T. P. Hudson (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1980)