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Wulfflæd 14

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Summary

Wulfflæd 14 held a small estate in Norfolk TRE with an assessment of 160 acres and a value of 20s; she was a free woman whose lord was Archbishop Stigand (Stigand 1) but whose lands lay within the holding of Bishop Æthelmær of Elmham (Æthelmær 35).

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 Norfolk	Phil. ref. 9,31	Vill Whitlingham	DB Spelling Ulflet	Holder 1066 Wulfflæd 'of Whitlington'	Lord 1066 Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Robert de Courson	Fiscal Value 1.33	1066 Value 0.79	1086 Value 1.18	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Whitlingham overlooks the river Yare just to the east of Norwich, with a famously picturesque (and perhaps deliberately ruined) medieval church that was presumably the successor to that noted by DB as part of Wulfflæd 14’s estate there. Her estate was noted as being in the fief of Bishop Æthelmær of Elmham (Æthelmær 35) but she was described as a free woman holding under Archbishop Stigand (Stigand 1), which implies that Stigand was Wulfflæd 14’s lord by commendation.

Whitlingham lies about 47 miles from Stansfield in Suffolk, where Wulfflæd 15 held a carucate of land TRE and was also described as a free woman. However, this is too far removed for an identity between the two holders to be likely; that they were also commended to different TRE lords and that their lands had passed to different tenants-in-chief by 1086 renders the possibility untenable.