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Rhys 3
Ryhs ‘of Erbistock’ (Ches.), fl. 1066
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Rhys 3 was a small Welsh landowner on the western border of Cheshire, whose single manor of ½ hide was recorded as waste in 1066.Profile
Erbistock lay on the western bank of the Dee at the limits of hidated and shired England. The hundred of Exestan in which it lay had been given by Edward the Confessor to the Welsh king Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, probably under a peace treaty of 1056, and taken back into English hands and restored to its former owners when Gruffudd was defeated and killed in 1064–5 (Lewis 1991a: 21–2). Rhys was clearly a Welshman.This is a unique name in DB.
Bibliography
Lewis 1991: CPL, ‘An introduction to the Cheshire Domesday’, The Cheshire Domesday, ed. Ann Williams and R. W. H. Erskine (London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1991), 1–25