Uhtbrand 3

Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’ (Notts.), fl. 1066
Male
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Name

Uhtbrand
Uhtbrand 2
Uhtbrand 4

Summary

Uhtbrand 3 was a small landowner in the district between Nottingham and Derby, holding two manors assessed at 2½ carucates and worth 160 shillings. He survived the Conquest as a tenant of King William on another holding at one of those places.

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
Derbyshire 6,93 Aston-on-Trent Vctebrand Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’ - Henry de Ferrers - 1.00 0.30 0.40 - Map
Nottinghamshire 29,2 Trowell Vctebrand Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’ - William the usher - 1.50 5.00 1.00 - Map
Totals

Subtenant in 1086

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
Derbyshire 1,38 Aston-on-Trent and Shardlow Uctebrand Ælfgar, earl - William, king Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’ 0.81 0.25 0.25 - Map
Totals

Profile

The main reason for identifying the holders of Aston-on-Trent and Trowell as the same man is the proximity of two similar-sized manors associated with the same unusual name. They were less than 8 miles apart, Aston on the banks of the Trent, Trowell on its tributary the Erewash. Their transmission to different successors is not a difficulty, since Ferrers had a notably compact fief in Derbyshire and adjoining counties, largely put together on a geographical basis, while William the usher was given two adjoining manors in Nottinghamshire.

Uhtbrand survived the Conquest at Aston-on-Trent, but at a different holding, a smaller property of 6½ bovates (which extended to Shardlow) which was a berewick of Weston-on-Trent.  Weston was the next place upstream from Aston, Shardlow the next place downstream. Weston had belonged to Earl Ælfgar TRE (Derb. 1:37–38).

We can be confident enough that Uhtbrand pre-1066 and post-1066 was the same person, less so about the circumstances of this apparent shuffle in his estates. Was the berewick compensation for two lost manors? Or did he hold all three estates all along, his tenancies from the earl TRE and from Ferrers and the usher in 1086 omitted by DB?