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Eadwulf 63

Name

Summary

Eadwulf 63 was a small landowner with a single manor of 2 hides worth £1 in 1066. He survived the Conquest as a tenant of the English tenant-in-chief Thorkil of Warwick, adding a second manor of about the same size, and indeed his male descendents over three more generations continued to hold the two manors until the middle of the thirteenth century.

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 Warwickshire	Phil. ref. 17,52	Vill Binley	DB Spelling Hadulfus	Holder 1066 Eadwulf 'of Binley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thorkil of Warwick	1086 Subtenant Eadwulf	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Warwickshire	Phil. ref. 17,25	Vill Rugby	DB Spelling Eddulfus	Holder 1066 Edwin the sheriff	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thorkil of Warwick	1086 Subtenant Eadwulf	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Warwickshire	Phil. ref. 17,52	Vill Binley	DB Spelling Hadulfus	Holder 1066 Eadwulf 'of Binley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thorkil of Warwick	1086 Subtenant Eadwulf	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

In 1086 an Eadwulf was subtenant of the great English survivor Thorkil of Warwick at two manors about eight miles apart from one another, on either side of the Foss Way in Feldon Warwickshire. His name is spelled differently in the two entries, but the identity of Eadwulf 63 is plain from the fact that Binley and Rugby descended together directly in the male line over probably four generations to Henry of Rugby (fl. 1255). Much of Binley was given to neighbouring Combe abbey soon after its foundation in 1150 by Thurbert son of Hadhellwlf, evidently the Hadulfus who held the manor in 1086. Hadhellwlf must represent the name Æthelwulf rather than Eadwulf (VCH Warws. VI, 35–6, 204).

In 1066 Eadwulf had held only Binley, 2 hides worth 20s. In 1086 he had 4½ hides worth £3. Eadwulf had a demesne plough and two slaves at each of his manors, and a mill at each, the one on the Avon at Rugby being worth four times the other on the Sowe at Binley.

Bibliography

VCH Warws. VI: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, VI, ed. L. F. Salzman (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1951)