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Leomær 16

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Summary

Leomær 16 is named in FBB 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.

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Leomær 16 is named in FBB (136v, as Lemer Croperer) 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 Leomær 16 as holding 3 acres at Rougham (rendering 1d and service) in 1086. The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE and 1086 in DB does not prove that Leomær 16 already held his land before the Conquest, although the possibility cannot be ruled out. His byname of croperer represents Old English crēopere ‘cripple’ (Tengvik 1938: 309).

Bibliography

Tengvik 1938: G. Tengvik, Old English Bynames (Uppsala, 1938), p.309.