Palli 2

Palli ‘of Middleton’ (Warws.), fl. 1066
Male
DWP
4 of 5

Name

Palli
Palli 3

Summary

Palli 2 held a moderate estate in north Warwickshire TRE assessed at 4 hides and with a value of £4.

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
Warwickshire 18,4 Middleton Pallinus Palli 'of Middleton' - Hugh de Grandmesnil - 4.00 4.00 6.00 C Map
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Profile

Palli 2’s estate was at Middleton and lay on the Langley Brook, a minor tributary of the river Tame in north Warwickshire. It was one of two estates at Middleton TRE, each assessed at 4 hides and each with a value of £4, the other being held by Thorgot.

DB gives no indication that Palli and Thorgot were connected, simply noting that each ‘held freely TRE’. However, the suspicion that they were holding two halves of a previously single estate is strengthened by the post-Conquest details of the two estates. Palli’s estate passed to Hugh de Grandmesnil (Hugh 5) while Thorgot’s passed to Hugh’s wife Adeliza (Adeliza 1); and although Hugh’s part included the priest, the mill and the meadow and Adeliza’s had an additional plough, all the other details point to a carefully equal division of resources and population. Furthermore, this arrangement was short-lived, because the subsequent descent shows the two parts to have been reunited as a single manor thereafter (Salzman 1947: 156-60). Although falling short of proof, therefore, the evidence suggests that a pre-Conquest estate at Middleton had been divided between Palli and Thurgot, for which the simplest explanation is division between co-heirs and thus that the two men were related.

Despite the extreme rarity of the name there is no reason to associate Palli 2 with Palli 3, whose small TRE estate lay over 60 miles away from Middleton and on the other side of the river Severn. This seems too far removed for the two men to be connected given the sizes of their estates.

Bibliography



Salzman 1947: L. F. Salzman, ed., A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 4: Hemlingford Hundred (London, 1947)