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Ælfheah 79

Name

Summary

(Unknown Person) was one of six free men holding a tiny estate in east Suffolk TRE assessed at 50 acres and with a TRW value of 8s; he was half under Munulf’s lordship, probably by commendation.

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. 4,15	Vill Middleton	DB Spelling Alfac	Holder 1066 Ælfheah 'of Middleton'	Lord 1066 Munulf	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Roger Bigod	Fiscal Value 0.07	1066 Value 0.07	1086 Value 0.07	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

(Unknown Person)’s tiny holding was at Middleton, on the Minsmere River a couple of miles inland from the east Suffolk coast.  He was one of six ‘free men’ [in fact including one free woman] sharing a tiny holding of 50 acres under various lordships.  DB describes Ælfheah as being ‘half [Munulf’s man]’, which probably means that his commendation was divided between Munulf, the TRE holder of the main Middleton estate, and some other unnamed lord; since the commendation of Munulf’s own estate was divided TRE between the antecessors of Earl Hugh 8 and Robert 36 Malet, it may be that one of these antecessors had the other half of Ælfheah’s commendation.

Although (Unknown Person)’s holding was only 22½ miles from that of (Unknown Person), the name was fairly common and his holding was so small that there is no reason to consider him in connection with any other estate or person.