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Wulfflæd 15

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Summary

Wulfflæd 15 held a small estate in north Suffolk TRE, with an assessment of 1 carucate and a value of 20s; she was a free woman commended to Wihtgar son of Ælfric (Wihtgar 10).

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 Suffolk	Phil. ref. 25,78	Vill Stansfield	DB Spelling Vlflet	Holder 1066 Wulfflæd 'of Stansfield'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Roger d'Abenon	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Wulfflæd 15’s small estate at Stansfield lay less than 10 miles from Bury St Edmunds. She was described in Domesday Book as being a free woman with the power of alienation, although her lord Wihtgar son of Ælfric (Wihtgar 10) was noted as having the soke and sake of her land as well as Wulfflæd’s commendation.

Stansfield lies about 47 miles from Whitlingham in Norfolk, where Wulfflæd 14 held a small estate 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.