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Wigflæd 2

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Summary

Wigflæd 2 held two estates in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire TRE with a combined assessment of 5¾ hides and over at least one of which she had the power of alienation; their total value is uncertain.

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 Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 1,4	Vill Harescombe	DB Spelling Wiflet	Holder 1066 Wigflæd 'of Seagry'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Roger d'Ivry	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 10.00	1086 Value 10.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 49,1	Vill Seagry	DB Spelling Wiflet	Holder 1066 Wigflæd 'of Seagry'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Drew fitzPons	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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Wigflæd 2’s main estate was at Seagry, on the north bank of the river Avon in north-west Wiltshire and about 4¼ miles to the south of Malmesbury; a house in Malmesbury was attached to the estate in 1086 but there is no indication if this was also the case when Wigflæd held it TRE. This estate, with its pre-Conquest assessment of 5 hides and value of 60s, was substantial enough to have put Wigflæd on a par with many local thegns, but she does not occur in any other surviving records.

Indeed, the name Wigflæd seems to occur only twice, the other instance being as the TRE holder of a small estate of 3 virgates at Harescombe, just below the western edge of the Cotswolds in south Gloucestershire and less than 20 miles away from Seagry. Given the relatively close proximity of the two estates and the extreme rarity of the personal name Wigflæd it is very probable the both were held by the same person TRE even though they passed to different successors after the Conquest.

This difference in TRW successors may have arisen because, according to DB, Harescombe was one of five lands in Dudstone Hundred that ‘Earl’ Harold (Harold 3) seized after the death of King Edward (Edward 15), with the result that they became part of King William’s estates after the Conquest. The value of Wigflæd’s 3 virgates at Harescombe is uncertain; but if a line in DB recording that ‘Roger d’Ivry put these lands to farm for £46 13s 4d’ refers to all the preceding entries for William’s estates then a balance of £6 13s 4d for the five lands taken by Harold, divided in proportion to their assessments, would give an approximate TRW value of just under 29s for Harescombe.