Godrun 5

Godrun mother of Ælfmar, d. by 1086?
Male
CPL
4 of 5

Name

Godrun
Godrun 4

Summary

Godrun 5 appears only in the matronymic byname of Ælfmar son of Godrun.

Profile

Godrun 5 appears only in the matronymic byname of Ælfmar son of Godrun (Æilmer Godrune filius) who held 8 acres on the abbot of Bury St Edmunds’ manor of Rougham (Suff.) in 1086. She herself was not a landowner in 1086, but that does not necessarily mean that she was dead by then.

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