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Æthelhelm 34

Name

Summary

Æthelhelm 34 held a tiny estate in east Cornwall TRE that gelded for ½ ferding (although 1 ferding was there) and was valued at 30d.

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 Cornwall	Phil. ref. 5,1,15	Vill Hela	DB Spelling Ailm	Holder 1066 Æthelhelm 'of Hela'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.06	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.05	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

This is the only estate held TRE by someone called Æthelhelm, as is shown by the unique spelling Ailm(us) in DB and Exon (cf. von Feilitzen 1937: 78-9 §62, 184). 

The precise location of Æthelhelm 34’s small holding remains uncertain.  The Exon order of entries implies a location in Rillaton Hundred, perhaps in the northern half of that hundred.  Attempts to identify Hela with South Hill near Callington may be roughly correct in terms of location but cannot be justified philologically because Hela represents Old English hēale, the dative singular of OE halh ‘nook, valley, corner’ (a common form in south-west England) whereas the earliest forms for South Hill (Southull(e) from 1175) are derived from OE hyll ‘hill’ (cf. Thorn and Thorn 1979: 5,1,15 Notes).

Bibliography

Thorn and Thorn 1979: C. Thorn and F. Thorn, eds., Domesday Book 10: Cornwall (Chichester, 1979), 5,1,15 Notes.

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