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Ælfhild 11

Name

Summary

Ælfhild 11 Dese held a single hide in Berkshire TRE, in King Edward’s (Edward 15) lordship and valued at 7s 6d.

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 Berkshire	Phil. ref. 31,3	Vill Bucklebury	DB Spelling Aluila	Holder 1066 Ælfhild Dese	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walter fitzOther	1086 Subtenant 1 man of Walter fitzOther	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.38	1086 Value 0.38	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The small estate of Ælfhild Dese in west Berkshire lay more than fifty miles from the nearest estate also held TRE by someone called Ælfhild (that being the yet smaller holding of Ælfhild 12) and even further from one of comparable or larger size.  It is therefore unlikely that Ælfhild 11 is to be associated with any other TRE (or TRW) landholder of that name.

Von Feilitzen (1937: 175) regarded Ælfhild 11’s byname ‘Dese’ as obscure, but Morgan (1979: 31,3 Notes) suggests that it represents a weak form of Old English ides ‘a lady’.  In either case, however, it does not occur as a byname for any of the other women called Ælfhild in DB, which strengthens the suggestion that Ælfhild 11 held only this one small estate.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Phill. Berks.: P. Morgan, ed., Domesday Book 5: Berkshire (Chichester, 1979), 31,3 Notes.