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Ælfheah 70

Name

Summary

(Unknown Person) was a minor thegn with shares in two small manors in west Derbyshire TRE; these had a total assessment of 5½ carucates and a value of £6 (of which Ælfheah’s share probably amounted to ¾ carucate with a value of 16s 8d if each manor was divided equally between its co-holders).

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 Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 6,34	Vill Barton	DB Spelling Elfeg	Holder 1066 Ælfheah 'of Barton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant Ralph 'of Bagpuize'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence D	Map
Shire Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 6,42	Vill Hollington	DB Spelling Elfag	Holder 1066 Ælfheah 'of Barton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.33	1086 Value 0.33	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Ælfheah occurs among the lists of co-holders for two manors in west Derbyshire TRE, both of which passed to Henry 6 de Ferrers after the Conquest.  The manors lay less than 3½ miles apart, with the larger being at Barton overlooking the Sutton Brook while the smaller, at Hollington, was further upstream on a hill between two of the river’s tributaries.  Given the close proximity of the manors, the similarly small size of the presumed shares in each (½ and ¼ carucate respectively, if divided equally between co-holders) and that both passed to the same TRW tenant-in-chief, it is probable that the TRE co-holder called Ælfheah in each case was the same man, (Unknown Person).  DB describes all of the holders of Hollington manor as thegns.

Ælfheah’s is the only name to occur in the entries for both of these manors and there is nothing to suggest a connection between him and the other co-holders.  It is conceivable that if (Unknown Person) and (Unknown Person) represent a single man with estates in west Nottinghamshire and east Derbyshire, then this his estates could have included those of (Unknown Person), less than 20 miles away.  However, the name Ælfheah was a fairly common one and the tiny holdings at Barton and Hollington form a discrete pair relative to the others.  On balance, therefore, it is more likely than not that (Unknown Person) was a separate person and that these were his only two estates.