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Leofmær 9

Name

Summary

Leofmær 9 held an estate in east Somerset TRE assessed at 3 hides and with a value of 60s.

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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 5,67	Vill Upton Noble	DB Spelling Lefmer	Holder 1066 Leofmær 'of Upton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant Ralph the red	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

There is some uncertainty over this identification because although the DB entry gives the name as Lefmer (i.e. Leofmær) the corresponding Exon entry (151b2) gives it as Letmerus, which would indicate the name Leodmær. There being no independent way of resolving this issue, priority has been given to the form used by the DB scribe; it remains possible, however, that he was making rather than correcting an spelling mistake.

Leofmær 9’s estate lay to the north-east of Bruton (the hundredal centre) in east Somerset. It lay 40 miles from the nearest estate held TRE by anyone else called Leofmær and 28 miles from the nearest one held by someone with the ambiguous name Leomær. Given the sizes of the estates concerned it is unlikely that Leofmær 9 can be identified with the TRE holders of either of these estates or with anyone else of that (or a similar) name.