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Alfketil 3

Name

Summary

Alfketil 3 was a small landowner in the eastern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, whose single manor of 3 carucates was worth 30s. He has been plausibly identified as one of the sureties of Archbishop Ælfric of York c. 1050.

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 Yorkshire	Phil. ref. 9W25	Vill Hambleton	DB Spelling Alchel	Holder 1066 Alfketil of Hambleton	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ilbert de Lacy	1086 Subtenant Earnwig 'of Garforth'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The three occurrences of the name Alfketil in Yorkshire are widely separated by distances of between 40 and 60 miles and each occurs at an estate of no more than 3 carucates. In those circumstances it is unlikely though not impossible that their holders were identical with one another. All three manors were in areas where William I allotted land in territorial blocks, so that succession does not help. The decisive factor in identifying three distinct individuals is that the name was common enough in Yorkshire for two different Alfketils to be listed among the sureties of Archbishop Ælfric of York (PASE: Ælfric 105) c. 1050 (Stevenson 1912: 12–13; Cooper 1969). One of the sureties was named as Alfcetel in Ha’, identified with DB’s Alchel, holding land at Hameltvn, by Farrer (1914: 28). A complication is that there was a second surety of the same name, paired in the list with another man as Alfcetel 7 Asmund, and there was an Osmundus (Asmund) holding land in 1066 at Fenton (Yorks. 9W:23), less than 4 miles from Hambleton.

Hambleton stands on a sandstone ‘island’ among the Humberhead Levels. The nearest archiepiscopal estate was at Riccall (Yorks. 2B:7), but York itself was less than 20 miles away. Alfketil was the only landowner in Hambleton in 1066.

Bibliography

Cooper 1969: Janet Cooper, ‘The list of Ælfric’s festermen in the York Gospels’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 42 (1969), 328–32

Farrer 1914: Early Yorkshire Charters, I, ed. William Farrer (Edinburgh: privately published, 1914)

Stevenson 1912: W. H. Stevenson, ‘Yorkshire surveys and other eleventh-century documents in the York Gospels’, English Historical Review, 27 (1912), 1–25