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Ælfheah 76

Name

Summary

(Unknown Person) had a small estate in east Sussex TRE assessed at 1 hide; the value is uncertain.

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 Sussex	Phil. ref. 10,80	Vill Langney	DB Spelling Alfec	Holder 1066 Ælfheah 'of Langney'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant William de Cahagnes	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.42	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

(Unknown Person)’s little estate was at Langney (from Old English langan-ēg ‘long island’; Mawer et al 1929-30: ii 447), in the marshes on the southern fringe of what was then Pevensey harbour (successor to Roman Anderitum) in east Sussex.  The DB entry gives no details of lord or nature of tenure, nor does the post-Conquest succession yield further clues.  Another hide at Langney was shared between Leomær 5 and Beorhtstan 15 and held ‘in alod’ TRE; and although this need not imply that Ælfheah’s land was held in a similar way it is notable that the value of 16s 8d entered after Ælfheah’s estate in DB seems to include both of the Langney hides.  It is also worth noting that the large estate of (Unknown Person) lay less than 23 miles away, but the name was a fairly common one and does not provide strong grounds for an identification.  Although a connection cannot entirely be ruled out, on balance the probability is that Langney was (Unknown Person)’s only estate and there is no reason to associate him with any other person of that name.

Bibliography

Mawer et al 1929-30: A. Mawer and F. M. Stenton with J. E. B. Gover, The Place-Names of Sussex, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1929–30)