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Cynewig 4

Name

Summary

Cynewig 4 held an estate in south Wiltshire TRE assessed at 6 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
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 27,14	Vill Ashton Gifford	DB Spelling Chenui	Holder 1066 Cynewig 'of Ashton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Humphrey de L'Isle	1086 Subtenant Robert 'the man of Humphrey de L'Isle'	Fiscal Value 6.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Cynewig 4’s estate was at Ashton Giffard, in the narrow valley of the river Wylye running across the southern part of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. Although his name was extremely rare, his TRE estate of 6 hides lay more than 40 miles to the south of the nearest one held by the Gloucestershire thegn Cynewig 3 and had passed to a different successor by 1086 than did any of Cynewig 3’s. The possibility that they were the same person cannot be ruled out, but the balance of probability is just in favour of identifying the TRE holder of Ashton Giffard as a separate person, Cynewig 4.

In the Phillimore translation of DB (Thorn and Thorn 1979: DB 27,14), Cynewig 4’s name is rendered as Kenwin, which would represent a form of the name Cynewine. However, the manuscript quite clearly shows the spelling Chenui and, in the absence of further evidence to the contrary, this points to ‑wīg rather than ‑wine as being the second element.

Bibliography

Thorn and Thorn 1979: Domesday Book 6: Wiltshire, ed. C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1979)