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Colswein 11

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Summary

Colswein 11 had a tiny estate in west Wiltshire TRE assessed at ½ hide and with a value of 5s; he had the power of alienation over his land.

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 Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 26,20	Vill Horningsham	DB Spelling Colsuen	Holder 1066 Colswein 'of Horningsham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alfred of Marlborough	1086 Subtenant Osmund 'of Horningsham'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.50

Profile

Colswein 11’s tiny estate was one of two recorded by DB at Horningsham in the hills and valleys of west Wiltshire’s border with Somerset.  Both estates were assessed for ½ hide and there is a strong likelihood that they represented the division of an earlier single-hide estate, although there is nothing in the details given by DB to suggest that such a division had been in the recent past nor to suggest that the two estates were still connected in any way.

DB states that Colswein ‘could go where he wished’, indicating that he had the power of alienation over his land and was not the dependent tenant of another landholder.  DB also records the presence of a mill in 1086, presumably sited by the Redford Water that rises near Horningsham, but this need not have existed at the time that Colswein held the estate.

Colswein 11’s little estate lay far from any other held TRE by someone called Colswein and there is no evidence to suggest that he survived the Conquest, so there is no reason to consider him in connection with anyone else of that name.