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Uhtræd 22

Name

Summary

Uhtræd 22 was a small landowner in Pennine Derbyshire who held one of two manors together assessed at only 2½ bovates and worth 6s. 8d. Uhtræd and his partner may have been the unnamed king’s thegns who held the same place in 1086.

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 Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 17,1	Vill Barlow	DB Spelling Vctred	Holder 1066 Uhtræd ‘of Barlow’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1 king's thegn 'of Barlow'	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.16	1066 Value 0.17	1086 Value 0.17	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

There are several grounds for distinguishing three different Uhtræds in the south Pennines. First, for the distances involved (some 20 miles between Barlow and Elton, and another 20 between Elton and Musden) the holdings are rather small, and Barlow and Musden in particular can hardly have been more substantial than large peasant farms. Secondly, different co-holders (or none) are involved at the three places. Thirdly, it is reasonable to suppose that the name Uhtræd was widely used in the region. It had probably been introduced in the tenth century when Ealdorman Uhtræd of Bamburgh (Uhtred 6 and 11) and (his son?) Uhtræd cild (Uhtred 9) acquired extensive estates in north Derbyshire by purchase and royal grant, at Hope and Ashford, Bakewell, and Chesterfield (Roffe 1990a: 11, 13). Given such high-status associations, it is plausible to suppose that the name would have retained enough social cachet a century later to have been adopted widely among the minor landed families of the district; thus it may well have been the name of several TRE landowners.

That being so, one of the Uhtræds held one of two small manors at Barlow, on an upper tributary of the Rother and apparently once part of Uhtræd cild’s soke of Chesterfield (Roffe 1990a: 12); the two together were assessed at 2½ bovates, worth 6s. 8d., and contained land for 5 oxen, so Uhtræd’s share was very small. Barlow belonged in 1086 to one or more unnamed king’s thegns, and perhaps Uhtræd and his partner of 1066, Leofric (Leofric ) survived.

Bibliography

Roffe 1990: D. R. Roffe, ‘An introduction to the Derbyshire Domesday’, The Derbyshire Domesday, [ed. Ann Williams and R. W. H. Erskine] (London: Alecto Historical Editions, 1990), 1–27