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Leomær 9

Name

Summary

Leomær 9 held a manor in Hertfordshire TRE assessed at 2⅜ hides and with a value of £4. His lord was Almær but he had the power of alienation over his land.

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 Hertfordshire	Phil. ref. 36,3	Vill Graveley	DB Spelling Lemarus	Holder 1066 Leomær 'of Graveley'	Lord 1066 Almær of Bennington	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Peter de Valognes	1086 Subtenant Godfrey 'of Graveley'	Fiscal Value 2.38	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Leomær 9’s manor was at Graveley, by the confluence of two streams in the lows hills of north Hertfordshire. His lord was Almær of Bennington, a major local landholder TRE. However, DB notes that Leomær ‘could sell’, which implies that he had the power of alienation over his land and was not one of Almær’s dependent tenants.

Leomær 9’s manor was the southernmost of a cluster of estates in north Hertfordshire and east Bedfordshire also held TRE by people called Leomær (Leomær 7) or Leodmær (Leodmær 6 and Leodmær 8), all of which lay between 5-10 miles from Graveley and so were close enough to have been held by the same person. However, none of these other estates had been in Almær’s lordship TRE nor did any of them (unlike Graveley) pass to Peter de Valognes after the Conquest. Although these factors do not preclude the possibility that Leomær 9 could be identified with one or more of these other TRE holders, the balance of probability is just in favour of regarding him as a separate person.