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Leomær 17

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Leomær 17 is named in FBB (136v, as Lemmer Brihtmer) among 112 minor tenants on the manor of Bury St Edmunds Abbey at Rougham, Suffolk, in 1086.

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Leomær 17 is named in FBB (136v, as Lemmer Brihtmer) 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 17 as holding 3 acres at Rougham (rendering 2d and service) in 1086. The implicit continuity of holdings between TRE and 1086 in DB does not prove that Leomær 17 already held his land before the Conquest, although the possibility cannot be ruled out. His byname of Brihtmer represents the Old English name Beorhtmær and is presumably intended as a patronymic but with a scribe having omitted the filius that would clarify matters (two of the other TRW tenants at Rougham, Eadmær and Leofwine, are described in FBB as Brihtmari filius).

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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