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Aski 4

Name

Summary

Aski 4 was a small landowner in north Warwickshire with one of two shares in a vill assessed at 2 hides and worth 20s.

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. 27,4	Vill Edgbaston	DB Spelling Aschi	Holder 1066 Aski 'of Edgbaston'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Drew 'of Whitley'	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The four instances of the name Aski in Domesday Book are located so far apart for such small estates that there can be no question of identifying any of them as the same man. Edgbaston, on the western side of Warwickshire, was held TRE by Aski 4 and another man; as usual in Warwickshire, the text does not say explicitly that they held it as two manors, and the relationship between Aski and his co-holder is obscure.

The distribution of the name Eskil, in its most common spelling Aschil (and variants), does not extend to Warwickshire and is very rare in western Mercia as a whole, so there are no grounds for thinking that Aschi at Edgbaston was a mistake for Aschil.