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Guthmund 12

Name

Summary

Guthmund 12 held two estates in Warwickshire as a subtenant in 1086, assessed in total at 12 hides and worth £6.5.

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

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. 17,7	Vill Packington	DB Spelling Gudmund	Holder 1066 Alweard 'of Packington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thorkil of Warwick	1086 Subtenant Guthmund brother of Thorkil	Fiscal Value 4.00	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence E	Map
Shire Warwickshire	Phil. ref. 27,1	Vill Aston	DB Spelling Godmundus	Holder 1066 Edwin, earl	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Guthmund brother of Thorkil	Fiscal Value 8.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

An interlineal note in the entry for Packington identifies Guthmund as the brother of Thorkil of Warwick (Thorkil 3). The close proximity of Aston and Packington, the fact that these are both substantial estates, and the fact that the name is unusual suggest that these tenants were identical. There are admittedly factors which work against this identification: the name is spelt differently (Gudmundus at Packington, Godmundus at Aston), and the estates were held from two different tenants-in-chief. However, this is consistent with a family strategy, for it has been observed that Guthmund’s brother Thorkil ‘allied himself with several of the incoming Normans in Warwickshire’ (Williams 1991: 104).

Guthmund’s family has been reconstructed by Ann Williams, who shows that several members of the family served as sheriffs and in other capacities as royal officials in before and after 1066 (Williams 1989: 280, 288; see also Baxter 2007: 246).

Later evidence demonstrates that Guthmund was the ancestor of the le Notte family. In 1210, Henry le Notte claimed 2 hides and 2 virgates at Bushbury and 2.5 hides at Penn in Staffordshire by right of Æthelgifu daughter of Guthmund (Ailleva filia Gudmundi), mother of Henry’s grandfather, also named le Notte (CRR, 72). Æthelgifu’s husband appears to have been named Richard (Stenton, 1940: no. 711 (p. 323), names the auus patris of Henry le Notte as Ricardus). This Guthmund can be identified with Guthmund 12 on the grounds that, like Aston in Warwickshire, Bushbury and Penn were both held by members of Earl Eadwine’s family TRE and by William fitzAnsculf in 1086: Earl Ælfgar and Lady Godiva held 5 and 3 hides respectively at Penn TRE (GDB 249d (Staffordshire 12:5−6)); and Lady Godiva held 1 virgate at Bushbury (GDB 250a (Staffordshire 12:22)). 

Bibliography

Baxter 2007: S. Baxter, The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 2007)

CRR: Curia Regis Rolls of the Reigns of Richard I and John preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume 6, 11-14 John (London, 1932)

Rolls of the Justices in the Eyre for Gloucestershire, Warwickshire and Staffordshire 1221, 1222, ed. D. M. Stenton, Selden Society 59 (London, 1940)

Thomas 2003: H. M. Thomas, The English and the Normans: Ethnic Hostility, Assimilation, and Identity 1066–c.1220 (Oxford, 2003), p. 406

Williams 1989: A. Williams, ‘A Vicecomital Family in Pre-Conquest Warwickshire’, ANS 11 (1989), 279–95

Williams 1991: A. Williams, The English and the Norman Conquest (Woodbridge, 1991)