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Æscwulf 10

Name

Summary

Æscwulf 2 was a locally important thegn in west Cheshire whose two manors were assessed at 10 hides and worth £4 10 shillings.

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 1,3	Vill Dunham on the Hill	DB Spelling Essul	Holder 1066 Æscwulf 'of Landican'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 0.80	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 8,7	Vill Landican	DB Spelling Essul	Holder 1066 Æscwulf 'of Landican'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant William Malbank	Fiscal Value 7.00	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

The two manors can be confidently assigned to the same person. The name Æscwulf occurs only here in DB, and neither Earl Hugh’s retention of one of them in his own hands nor the distance between them (some 14 miles) undermines that confidence. They were of broadly similar size and Æscwulf was the only holder at both vills.

An assessment of 10 hides placed Æscwulf among the dozen or so most important thegns in Cheshire in 1066 (Lewis 1991a: 15). His larger manor, Landican, was a parochial centre on Wirral; Dunham on the Hill lay between the lower Gowy and the wooded central Cheshire ridge.

Bibliography

Lewis 1991a: C. P. Lewis, 'An Introduction to the Cheshire Domesday', in The Cheshire Domesday, ed. A. Williams and R. W. H. Erskine (London, 1990), 1–25