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Æthelrun 2 was a small landowner in north Somerset whose single hide of land was worth an estimated 20s.
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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Somerset
6,14
Yatton
Æthelrun 'of Yatton'
John the Dane
Giso, bishop of Wells
Ildebert 'of Milton Clevedon'
1.00
1.00
0.00
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1.00
1.00
0.00
Æthelrun appears only once as a pre-Conquest landowner, at Yatton in north Somerset, and is mentioned only in Exon (159b2), not in GDB. She held 1 hide ‘jointly’ (pariter), though with whom the text does not say; presumably her holding was in some way dependent upon the main and much larger TRE holding in Yatton, that of John the Dane (John 37). Exon adds that pasture called Wemberham ‘lies with’ Æthelrun’s hide (Cum ista hida quam tenuit Ailrun iacet .i. pascua quae uocatur Weimorham). The natural reading of that phrase is that Wemberham was physically located alongside Æthelrun’s hide, which would place her land west of Yatton along the river Yeo.
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