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Æthelrun 2

Name

Summary

Æthelrun 2 was a small landowner in north Somerset whose single hide of land was worth an estimated 20s.

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. 6,14	Vill Yatton	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Æthelrun 'of Yatton'	Lord 1066 John the Dane	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Giso, bishop of Wells	1086 Subtenant Ildebert 'of Milton Clevedon'	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Æthelrun appears only once as a pre-Conquest landowner, at Yatton in north Somerset, and is mentioned only in Exon (159b2), not in GDB. She held 1 hide ‘jointly’ (pariter), though with whom the text does not say; presumably her holding was in some way dependent upon the main and much larger TRE holding in Yatton, that of John the Dane (John 37). Exon adds that pasture called Wemberham ‘lies with’ Æthelrun’s hide (Cum ista hida quam tenuit Ailrun iacet .i. pascua quae uocatur Weimorham). The natural reading of that phrase is that Wemberham was physically located alongside Æthelrun’s hide, which would place her land west of Yatton along the river Yeo.