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Leofdæg 4
Leofdæg ‘of Rougham’ (Suff.), fl. 1086
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Leofdæg 4 is named in FBB (fo 137) among 112 minor tenants on the manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham, 3¾ miles to the east-south-east of Bury, in 1086.Profile
Leofdæg 4 is named in FBB (fo 137) among 112 minor tenants on the manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham, 3¾ miles to the east-south-east of Bury, in 1086. The corresponding DB entry records 90 free men and 11 bordars (and 1 slave) on the non-demesne part of the manor in 1086 but does not include their names. FBB records Leofdæg 4 as holding 1 acre at Rougham (rendering 1d) in 1086. The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE and 1086 in DB does not prove that Leofdæg 4 already held his land before the Conquest, although the possibility cannot be ruled out.Bibliography
FBB: ‘The Feudal Book of Baldwin, abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, 1065–1098, contained in the Black Book of the abbey, MS. Mm. iv. 19, fols. 124–43b. (Cambridge University Library)’, in Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas, British Academy Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales, 8 (London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1932), 1–44