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Leomær 8

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Summary

Leomær 8’s tiny estate was at Babraham, on the River Granta south of Cambridge. DB describes him as a man of Earl Gyrth (Gyrth 1) and notes that he ‘could not depart’, which suggests that he was one of Gyrth’s dependent tenants.

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 Cambridgeshire	Phil. ref. 41,5	Vill Babraham	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Leomær 'of Babraham'	Lord 1066 Gyrth, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Judith, countess	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.38	1066 Value 0.20	1086 Value 0.20	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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Leomær 8’s tiny estate was at Babraham, on the River Granta south of Cambridge. DB describes him as a man of Earl Gyrth (Gyrth 1) and notes that he ‘could not depart’, which suggests that he was one of Gyrth’s dependent tenants.

Although Babraham was relatively close to two clusters of estates held TRE by various people called Leomær or Leodmær (one between 6½ and 20 miles away to the east, mainly in north Essex, and the other between 18 and 23 miles away in east Bedfordshire and north-west Hertfordshire), none of these was associated with Earl Gyrth nor did any hold an estate that, like Babraham, had passed to the Countess Judith (Judith 3) by 1086. Taking these factors together with the very small size of the Babraham estate, it seems more likely than not that this was Leomær 8’s only estate.