Mainard 4

Mainard ‘of Smallbrook’ (Wilts.), fl. 1066
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Name

Mainard
Mainard 3

Summary

Mainard 4 had a small estate in west Wiltshire TRE assessed at 2 hides and with a value of 30s.

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
Wiltshire 68,27 Smallbrook Mainard Mainard 'of Smallbrook' - Aubrey the chamberlain - 2.00 1.50 2.00 B Map
Totals

Profile

Mainard 4’s estate is called Smalebroc in DB, which can be identified with Smallbrook Farm near Warminster, in the Vale of Wylye on the western edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire (Crittall 1965: 1-5, 96-103; Thorn and Thorn 1979: DB 68,27 Notes; contra Gover et al. 1939: 133, 159-60).

The extreme rarity of the name Mainard in pre-Conquest England renders it possible that Mainard 4 was the same person as Mainard 3, who held a small estate in west Hampshire TRE. Nevertheless, the facts that both estates were small, were separated by more than 30 miles (and Salisbury Plain) and passed to different post-Conquest successors make it more likely that they were different people.

Bibliography


Crittall 1965: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 8: Warminster, Westbury and Whorwellsdown Hundreds. ed. E. Crittall (London, 1965)

Gover et al. 1939: J. E. B. Gover, A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton, The Place-Names of Wiltshire (Cambridge, 1939), pp. 133, 159-60.

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