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Dedol 2

Name

Summary

Dedol 2 was a small landowner in mid-Cheshire, whose four manors were assessed at 2¾ hides but worth only 10 shillings.

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 1,19	Vill Little Budworth	DB Spelling Dedol	Holder 1066 Dedol ‘of Bunbury’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 2,25	Vill Bunbury	DB Spelling Dedol	Holder 1066 Dedol ‘of Bunbury’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Robert fitzHugh	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.20	1086 Value 0.65	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 2,26	Vill Tiverton	DB Spelling Dedol	Holder 1066 Dedol ‘of Bunbury’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Robert fitzHugh	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.63	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 5,4	Vill Cogshall	DB Spelling Dedou	Holder 1066 Dedol ‘of Bunbury’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Richard de Vernon	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.05	1086 Value 0.13	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The four Cheshire instances of Dedol clearly all refer to the same person, since a very unusual name occurs only within a 12-mile stretch of central Cheshire. The patterns of succession, as usually the case in Cheshire, are not a guide to identification, and joint-ownership of two of the manors concerned offers no help.

Dedol’s principal estate is likely to have been Bunbury, a place of some importance where the priest recorded on the manor in 1086 served the church of one of the extensive multi-township parishes characteristic of Cheshire. Bunbury was the only one of Dedol’s four manors with a home farm in 1086, and he is likely to have farmed there TRE. At both Tiverton and Cogshall Dedol held one of two manors, being listed first before Hundulf 5 at Tiverton and second after Leofnoth at Cogshall, where there was a third manor recorded separately (Ches. 20:10). Little Budworth was reckoned waste, probably because it had been taken into the earl’s forest by 1086.