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Ælfhelm 38

Name

Summary

Ælfhelm 38 held a small manor in north-east Essex TRE assessed at just under 1¼ hides and with a value of £4.

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. 39,9	Vill Jacques Hall	DB Spelling Alfelmus	Holder 1066 Ælfhelm 'of Manston'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Rames	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.21	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Ælfhelm 38’s small manor was at Manestuna, which can be identified with what is now Jacques Hall on the low ground by the Stour estuary in north-east Essex (Reaney 1935: 329).

DB gives some further information about Ælfhelm’s estate TRE.  He had a dependent peasant population comprising the households of one villan and four bordars along with one slave, with two ploughs on his demesne and one on the peasants’ land.  It is likely that his manor then practiced a mix of arable and pastoral farming as it did under his successor in 1086, although it is unclear if the salt-pan recorded in 1086 already existed under Ælfhelm’s lordship.

Ælfhelm 38’s manor was too small and, at more than 75 miles, too far distant from any other estate held TRE by someone of that name for any connection to be considered.

Bibliography

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