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Uhtræd 23

Name

Summary

Uhtræd 23 was a small landowner in north Derbyshire, who held one of two shares in each of two manors which together were assessed at 2½ carucates and worth 50s.

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. 6,3	Vill Cowley	DB Spelling Vctred	Holder 1066 Uhtræd ‘of Elton’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant Swein 'of Cowley'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Shire Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 6,4	Vill Elton	DB Spelling Vctred	Holder 1066 Uhtræd ‘of Elton’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	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.

One Uhtræd can thus be identified as the holder of manors at Cowley in Darley Dale (the valley of the Derwent above Matlock) and Elton, at the head of a side valley on the edge of the moors, 3 miles distant. In both cases he was named second, after the holder of another manor. His partner at Elton, the larger of the two places, was Caschin (Caski ); at Cowley, his partner Swein (Swein ) survived in 1086 as a tenant of Henry de Ferrers. Here, DB is explicit that each man had 2 bovates, but the shares of the 2 carucates at Elton are not given.

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