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Waland 2
Waland ‘of Dormston’ (Worcs.), fl. 1066
Male
CPL
4 of 5
Summary
Waland 2 had 5 hides worth £4 10s. at a berewick of Westminster abbey’s great Worcestershire estate centred on Pershore. Pershore was given to the abbey by Edward the Confessor shortly before 1066, and Waland probably first acquired the tenancy from the king.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Worcestershire | 8,14 | Dormston | Waland | Waland 'of Dormston' | Edwin, abbot of Westminster | Gilbert Crispin, abbot of Westminster | William fitzCorbucion | 5.00 | 4.50 | 4.50 | A | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
The name Waland occurs only once TRE, as the holder of 5 hides at Dormston within the Pershore estate recently given by Edward the Confessor to Westminster abbey. Like the tenants of the other dependent parts of Pershore, he probably acquired it while Pershore was in the king’s hands.Waland’s name suggests that he was probably a Norman or from elsewhere on the Continent rather than an Englishman. Confidence in that statement is boosted by the fact that two of his fellow tenants of Pershore’s outliers were the Frenchman Alfred of Marlborough (Alfred 99; Keats-Rohan 1999: 142) (Worcs. 8:26a) and Regenbald the chancellor (Regenbald 1), perhaps a Lotharingian (Keynes 1987: 195–222) (Worcs. 8:9c; Evesham A: 54; Herefs. 1:46).
The less attractive alternative would be to regard Waland’s name as English, of a type standing alongside Holand, who held land elsewhere in Worcestershire in 1066. It is striking that two of the three pre-Conquest instances of names with –land as the second element come from the same shire, but the first part of the name cannot easily be resolved into an OE name-element.
Bibliography
Keats-Rohan 1999: K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166, I: Domesday Book (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1999)
Keynes 1987: Simon Keynes, ‘Regenbald the chancellor (sic)’, Anglo-Norman Studies, 10 (1987), 185–222