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Ælfheah 77

Name

Summary

(Unknown Person) was one of two holders of an estate in south Essex TRE assessed at just under 2¼ hides and with a value of 40s.

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. 37,17	Vill Mountnessing	DB Spelling Alfega	Holder 1066 Ælfheah 'of Ing'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ranulph brother of Ilger	1086 Subtenant William de Bosc	Fiscal Value 1.11	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

(Unknown Person)’s estate was called Gingā in DB, representing an Old English folk-name *Gēgingas modernized as Ing that occurs in several place-names in the Wid valley in south Essex; Ælfheah’s estate was at Mountnessing, where the folk-name has a manorial affix Mounteney from its later medieval holders (Reaney 1935: 258-61; Watts 2004: 332, 424).  Ælfheah shared the estate with Algar, but the division of the estate between them and their relationship to each other (if any) is not apparent from DB.  The description of the estate’s resources seems incomplete in DB, noting only two slaves and two ploughs TRE, although it is likely that as in 1086 there was sheep pasture, woodland and a small number of peasant households to augment the estate’s workforce.

(Unknown Person)’s estate was more than 34 miles from any other held TRE by someone of that name and there is no reason to consider him in connection with any other estate or person.

Bibliography

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

Watts 2004: V. E. Watts, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names (Cambridge, 2004)