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Uhtræd 21

Name

Summary

Uhtræd 21 was a small landowner in the West Riding of Yorkshire who had one of four holdings in a vill assessed at 8 carucates and worth 60s.

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 Yorkshire	Phil. ref. 9W18	Vill Snitertun	DB Spelling Vctred	Holder 1066 Uhtræd ‘of Snitertun’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ilbert de Lacy	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Snitertun is a lost place in Skyrack wapentake, probably in the neighbourhood of Leeds (Faull and Moorhouse 1981: II, 233, 327–8), Uhtræd being named last among the four holders of manors there. The other three (Niveling 2, Maban 3, and Morfari 2) had unusual names which otherwise appear in DB only in the immediate vicinity. That pattern suggests that this Uhtræd, too, occurs only at Snitertun. The occurrence in the same place of four personal names which range from quite unusual to wildly exotic is rather remarkable. Were they brothers? If so, their parents had inventive tastes when it came to naming their boys. 

Bibliography

Faull and Moorhouse 1981: West Yorkshire: An Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500, ed. M. L. Faull and S. A. Moorhouse, 4 vols (Wakefield: West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council, 1981)