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Bædling 2

Name

Summary

Bædling 2 held a 6-hide manor worth almost £5 of Earl Godwine, and should be reckoned as having been one of the earl’s thegns before Godwine’s death in 1053.

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. 12,28	Vill Perching	DB Spelling Bellinc	Holder 1066 Bædling 'of Truleigh'	Lord 1066 Godwine, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Warenne	1086 Subtenant Tezelin 'of Fulking'	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 0.95	1086 Value 0.95	Confidence A	Map
Shire Sussex	Phil. ref. 13,6	Vill Truleigh	DB Spelling Bedling	Holder 1066 Bædling 'of Truleigh'	Lord 1066 Godwine, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Briouze	1086 Subtenant William 'the man of William de Briouze'	Fiscal Value 3.50	1066 Value 3.50	1086 Value 3.06	Confidence A	Map
Shire Sussex	Phil. ref. 13,6	Vill Truleigh	DB Spelling Bedling	Holder 1066 Bædling 'of Truleigh'	Lord 1066 Godwine, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Briouze	1086 Subtenant William 'the man of William de Briouze'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.44	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The name Bædling occurs twice in DB with rather different spellings which might not otherwise have been connected were it not for the fact that DB explicitly says that 2 hides at Perching (held by Bellinc from Earl Godwine) used to lie in Truleigh (held by Bedling from Earl Godwine). Bædling’s manor had been divided when a new rape was created for William de Braose c. 1073, disrupting territorial arrangements across the new demarcation line with William de Warenne’s rape of Lewes.

Bædling’s manor of Truleigh-Perching (as it might be called) was in fact disposed in two blocks of land separated by a strip of other men’s property. The larger unit we are concerned with here was the later parish of Edburton, which occupied a section 3 miles long and 2 miles wide straddling the north-facing escarpment of the South Downs and the fertile greensand valley below. In 1066 there were four blocks of land within Edburton, running in parallel along the same alignment: from west to east Truleigh (4 hides), Paythorne (4 hides), Perching (divided among holdings of 2, 3, and 5½ hides), and Fulking (3¼ hides) (Suss. 12:26–29, 35; 13:6). The new rape boundary not only diverted Bædling’s two blocks of land to different Norman owners, but also cut Paythorne in two: 2½ hides in Braose’s rape and 1½ hides in Warenne’s (VCH Suss. VI (3), 45–51; VCH Suss. VII, 202–4).

Bibliography

VCH Suss. VI (3): The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Sussex, VI, Part 3, ed. T. P. Hudson (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1987)

VCH Suss. VII: The Victoria History of the Counties of England: The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, VII, ed. L. F. Salzman (London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research, 1940)