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Æthelwulf 51 was a small landowner in west Devon with three manors assessed at less than 1 hide and worth £2 10s. TRE; in 1086 he remained as Iudichael of Totnes’s subtenant on one of them, now worth only £1.
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
Holder 1066 DB Spelling
Holder 1066
Lord 1066
Tenant-in-Chief 1086
1086
subtenant
Fiscal value
1066
value
1086 value
Holder 1066 ID conf.
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Devon
35,7
Kimber
Aiulf
Æthelwulf 'of Giffords Hele'
-
Roald the dubbed
Roger the Fleming
0.25
0.25
0.50
B
Map
Devon
39,8
Giffords Hele
Aiolf
Æthelwulf 'of Giffords Hele'
-
Alfred d'Épaignes, the Breton
Wihenoc 'of Giffords Hele'
0.50
1.00
1.25
B
Map
Devon
17,18
Lidemore
Aiulfus
Æthelwulf 'of Giffords Hele'
-
Judhael of Totnes
Æthelwulf
0.06
1.25
1.00
E
Map
Total
0.81
2.50
2.75
Subtenant in 1086
Shire
Phil. ref.
Vill
Subtenant DB Spelling
Holder 1066
Lord 1066
Tenant-in-Chief 1086
1086
subtenant
Fiscal value
1066
value
1086 value
Subtenant ID conf.
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Devon
17,18
Lidemore
Aiulfus
Æthelwulf 'of Giffords Hele'
-
Judhael of Totnes
Æthelwulf
0.06
1.25
1.00
A
Map
Total
0.06
1.25
1.00
Æthelwulf 51 is identified on the basis of the proximity of the three west Devon manors attributed to his name. The largest, Giffords Hele, lay in the valley of the Torridge, about 8 miles north of Kimber, which stood over 300 feet higher on one of the head-streams of a tributary of the Torridge. Lidemore (Liclemore in Exon) was in the same hundred as Kimber (Torrington) and has been mapped quite close to it, but the hundred stretched as far as the Cornish border, and Iudichael of Totnes’s other manors in the hundred were on its western side, so that Lidemore may in fact have been as close to the Cornish manors assigned to Æthelwulf 50 as to Kimber and Giffords Hele. Over 25 miles separates Æthelwulf 50’s Tremail from Æthelwulf 51’s Giffords Hele, and it seem unlikely that all five rather small places belonged to the same person, but conceivably Lidemore should be attached to the Cornish Æthelwulf 50 rather than the Devonian Æthelwulf 51.
Æthelwulf 51 survived as Iudichael of Totnes’s subtenant at Lidemore, his estates as a whole reduced in value from £2 10s. in 1066 to just £1. He had two ploughs at Lidemore in 1086 but no other details of the manor’s resources are recorded.
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