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Ærling 2

Name

Summary

Ærling 2 held a manor in east Essex TRE assessed at 2½ hides and with a value of 30s.

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 30,14	Vill Danbury	DB Spelling Arlingus	Holder 1066 Ærling 'of Danbury'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant William fitzSaxwalo de Bouville	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Ærling 2’s manor was at Danbury, on the higher ground between Chelmsford and Maldon in east Essex; the referent of the place-name was probably an earthwork still visible in the eighteenth century (Reaney 1935: 248).  The manpower for his estate relied more on slaves than on dependent peasant households, DB recording that there were 4 slaves and only 3 bordars TRE; by 1086 the position had reversed, with 9 bordars and only 1 slave recorded.

Danbury was Ærling 2’s only estate and no-one else is recorded in DB as holding land there TRE.  There is no other instance of the name Ærling in DB; and although confusion with the Continental Germanic name Herling is unlikely but theoretically possible, the estates of Herling 2 and Herling 3 passed to different TRW successors and are too far away from Danbury for a connection with Ærling 2 to be considered.

Bibliography

Reaney 1935: P. H. Reaney, The Place-Names of Essex (Cambridge, 1935)