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Æthelflæd 31

Name

Summary

Æthelflæd 31 had a small estate in south-east Dorset TRE assessed at 2 hides and with a value of 10s.

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 Dorset	Phil. ref. 37,11	Vill Hethfelton	DB Spelling Ædelflete	Holder 1066 Æthelflæd 'of Hethfelton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Briouze	1086 Subtenant Robert 'the man of William de Briouze'	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Æthelflæd 31’s estate was at Hethfelton, on the low ridge of heathland and woods between the rivers Frome and Piddle in south-east Dorset.  Some forms of the place-name have led to suggestions that it was named from Æthelflæd, but it is in fact Old English hæð-feld-tūn ‘estate at the open land where heather grows’ (Mills 1977: 146-7).

Although some of the women profiled under the name Alflæd probably had names that originated as Æthelflæd, none of them held land TRE close enough to the estate of Æthelflæd 31 for a connection between them to be considered.

Bibliography

Mills 1977: A. D. Mills, The Place-Names of Dorset: Part One (Cambridge, 1977)