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Werlin 1

Name

Summary

Werlin 1 had an estate in north-west Wiltshire TRE assessed at 3 hides and with a value of £4, which he held as a dependent tenant of Malmesbury Abbey.

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. 8,11	Vill Crudwell	DB Spelling Guerlinus	Holder 1066 Werlin 'of Crudwell'	Lord 1066 Beorhtric, abbot of Malmesbury	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Warin, abbot of Malmesbury	1086 Subtenant Everard 'of Crudwell'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Werlin 1’s estate formed part of Malmesbury Abbey’s large estate at Crudwell, where the various streams that feed into the Swill Brook rise up to the east of the Fosse Way in north-west Wiltshire. The details and boundaries of the abbey’s estate here are not fully understood, especially for the period before the twelfth century, but it is possible that Werlin’s holding corresponded to that which was later called West Crudwell (Crowley et al. 1991: 51-65). In any event, DB’s statement that he ‘could not be separated from the church’ implies that Werlin held his land in dependent tenure from the abbey. To find a dependent tenant with an apparently Norman-French name in pre-Conquest England is unusual, so it is possible that Werlin 1 was in fact a member of the abbey’s religious community.

Bibliography

Crowley et al. 1991: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 14: Malmesbury Hundred, ed. D. A. Crowley et al. (London, 1991)