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Ælfheah 71
Ælfheah ‘of Lee’ (Salop.), fl. 1066
Male
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Summary
(Unknown Person) was a free man with a tiny manor in north Shropshire TRE; it was held and assessed with those of two other free men for a total of 1 hide with a value of 13s.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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shropshire | 4,25,2 | Lee Brockhurst | Elfac | Ælfheah 'of Lee' | - | Roger, earl | Norman the hunter | 0.33 | 0.22 | 1.00 | B | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||
Profile
(Unknown Person)’s tiny manor was one of three at Lee Brockhurst, in a loop of the River Roden in north Shropshire. DB states that the three TRE holders, Wulfgeat, Wihtric and Ælfheah, held Lee ‘as three manors and were free’, a formula that here as elsewhere may indicate that such ‘combined manors’ may not have been entirely independent TRE but were instead held in dependent tenure from a lord unspecified in DB (Lewis 1990: 20-1). If so, however, it is not possible to say if two of the men were in fact tenants of the third or if all three were tenants of some other lord. DB also notes that the manors were ‘waste’ when the TRW subtenant acquired them, which suggests that they had been depleted by Welsh raids or, more probably, during the Norman suppression of the English revolt in the marcher lands in 1068-70.Ælfheah’s estate was too small and, at more than 40 miles, too distant from any others held TRE by someone with the same common name for any connection between them to be considered. For similar reasons it is unlikely that he was the same person as Ælfheah 60, a moneyer active between 1059-62 at Shrewsbury, 9½ miles from Lee Brockhurst.
Bibliography
C. P. Lewis, ‘An introduction to the Shropshire Domesday’, in A. Williams and R. W. H. Erskine, eds., The Shropshire Domesday (London, 1990), pp. 1-27, at pp. 20-1.