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Uhtræd 27

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Summary

Uhtræd 27 was a small landowner in north Hertfordshire, not free to alienate the ½ hide worth 30s. which he held under Robert fitzWimarc.

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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 Hertfordshire	Phil. ref. 37,9	Vill Ashwell	DB Spelling Vctred	Holder 1066 Uhtræd ‘of Ashwell’ (Herts.)	Lord 1066 Robert fitzWimarc	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hardwin de Scales	1086 Subtenant Theobald 'of Barley'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Uhtræd’s holding at Ashwell, below the Chiltern escarpment at the northern tip of Hertfordshire, was too small and isolated for him to be identified with even the nearest other Uhtræd. It comprised ½ hide which Uhtræd held under Robert fitzWimarc (Robert 14), without power of alienation, as the men of the hundred testified during the Domesday inquest. Robert fitzWimarc had lands and men near by in Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire as well as Hertfordshire. The value of 30s. given for 1066 may have been the rent that Uhtræd paid Robert, a steep one for only 1 ploughland; it was reckoned worth only 10s. when the incoming Norman Hardwin de Scales acquired it.