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Hunding 2

Name

Summary

A small landowner on the Cheshire plain, with two manors assessed at 1½ hides and worth 32 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. 2,30	Vill Butley	DB Spelling Hundin	Holder 1066 Hunding ‘of Butley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Robert fitzHugh	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 24,4	Vill Winnington	DB Spelling Hunding	Holder 1066 Hunding ‘of Butley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Osbern fitzTezzo	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.10	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

Winnington, on the banks of the Weaver next to the salt-manufacturing centre of Northwich, was some 18 miles west of Butley, on the fringes of the Pennines near the important parochial centre of Prestbury. In Cheshire the pattern of succession by Earl Hugh’s men is not necessarily a good clue to identity, and the geographical separation of these two rather small estates would count against identifying their TRE owners as the same man, were it not for one other factor. At both places (Unknown Person) had exactly a half share of the vill, the other portions being recorded in completely separate DB entries. At Winnington, (Unknown Person) and Leofnoth each had a manor assessed at ½ hide and land for 1 plough; in 1086 each manor was occupied by 1 radman and 1 villan and worth 2 shillings (Ches. 20:2; 24:4). At Butley, (Unknown Person) and Wulfric each had a manor of 1 hide and land for 5 ploughs; no population was recorded but the two manors had virtually identical resources (2½ acres of meadow, and woodland measuring 3 leagues by 1 league) and both were worth 30 shillings TRE and 2 shillings in 1086. Hunding’s manor was said in 1086 to be waste ‘except for 12 acres sown’ (præter .xii. acras s[emin]atas), while Wulfric’s was waste ‘except for 7 acres sown’ (præter .vii. acras seminatas). The roman numerals vii and xii were easily confused when a scribe was working quickly, and quite possibly identical sown acreages were involved too. Otherwise the only difference between the two halves of Butley was that Hunding’s part had a deer-enclosure (haia) and Wulfric’s did not (Ches. 2:30; 26:8). Wulfric survived at Butley in 1086 as a tenant of Earl Hugh. 

The halving of Winnington and Butley raises the suspicion that the same Hunding had an interest in both, and that (Unknown Person), Leofnoth, and Wulfric were kinsmen, perhaps brothers who had divided some of their inheritance straight down the middle.