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Leomær 6

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Summary

Leomær 6 held a small estate in Buckinghamshire TRE assessed at ½ hide with a value of 10s; he was the man of Beorhtric, although he had power of alienation over his land.

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 23,21	Vill Wingrave	DB Spelling Lemar	Holder 1066 Leomær 'of Wingrave'	Lord 1066 Beorhtric, man of Queen Eadgyth	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Miles Crispin	1086 Subtenant Thurstan the priest	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Leomær 6’s small estate at Wingrave, near the eastern border of Buckinghamshire, seems slightly isolated from the cluster of estates in north Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire held TRE by people with this or a similar name. Wingrave lies about 23 miles from the two small estates of Leomær 7, 24 miles from that of Leomær 9 and more than 25 miles from the similarly small estate of Leodmær 8 and the slightly larger group held by Leodmær 6. Furthermore, each of these had a different TRE lord and their estates passed to different TRW successors. None of these features – moderate distance, different TRE lord or different TRW successor – would be conclusive in itself, but when taken together they render it probable that Leomær 6 was a distinct individual and that Wingrave was his only estate.

DB describes Leomær 6 as being the man of Beorhtric (the TRE lord of several men whose lands passed to Miles Crispin after the Conquest) but notes that he ‘could sell’, which implies that Leomær had the power of alienation over his land and that Beorhtric was his lord only by commendation.

The Phillimore and Alecto editions of DB render Leomær 6’s name as ‘Leofmer’ and ‘Leofmær’ respectively, but there are no grounds for preferring this on the basis of the DB form Lemar.