Lodric 3

Lodric ‘of Hillborough’ (Warws.), fl. 1066
Male
CPL
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Name

Lodric
Lodric 2
Lodric 4

Summary

Lodric 3 was a small landowner in south Warwickshire with a single manor of 3½ hides worth £2.

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 37,5 Hillborough Lodric Lodric 'of Hillborough' - Osbern fitzRichard Hugh Hubald 3.50 2.00 2.00 D Map
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Profile

Lodric 3 had a manor of 3½ hides at Hillborough and Binton, adjoining vills in the middle Avon valley of south Warwickshire. A second holding at Hillborough and three more at Binton were recorded in DB (Warws. 28:14; 34:1; 35:1–2). Two of them (the other part of Hillborough and one of the Binton manors) belonged to Earnwig, who had the same hidage (3½) and ploughlands (4) as Lodric, and like him (but unlike the other holders at Binton) was said to hold freely (libere), probably meaning that they were free to dispose of their lands as they wished. Was it just a coincidence that an Earnwig (Earnwig) also had two manors in the immediate vicinity of Lodric 2’s holding in Herefordshire? Earnwig was by no means a rare name, but it was not so common in western Mercia for the possibility to be entirely ruled out that we are dealing with the same Lodric and the same Earnwig in Herefordshire and Warwickshire.

The history of Binton during the ninety years before 1066 may be relevant to the identity of Lodric 3. Evesham abbey later claimed that it had owned Binton in the time of King Edgar and that after his death (975) Ealdorman Ælfhere of Mercia (Ælfhere 10) threw out the monks, installed canons, and gave away many of the abbey’s estates, including 8 hides at Binton to certain of his thegns (milites). The Evesham account went on to describe the circumstances in which it recovered Binton in a passage whose meaning is not entirely clear, but which seems to claim that it was returned to the abbey by Æthelwig (the future abbot of Evesham, Æthelwig 15) when he was reeve under Abbot Manni (Manni 1, 1044–58), and perhaps that Binton had belonged to Æthelwig’s father (Macray 1863: 78–9, 94–5; VCH Warws. III, 62, 98). The puzzle here is that no part of Binton was held or claimed by Evesham in 1066. The possibility remains that Lodric 3 and Earnwig were the descendants or otherwise successors of the thegns who acquired Binton from Ealdorman Ælfhere.

Bibliography


Macray 1863: Chronicon abbatiæ de Evesham ad annum 1418, ed. William Dunn Macray, Rolls Series 29 (1863)

VCH Warws. III: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, III, ed. L. F. Salzman and Philip Styles (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1945)