Stem · Aldithley
Saxon stem
1086 – 1192
Carries. The dirt: Audley, Balterley, Talk. The name of a Saxon woman, Aldgith.
Breaks. The Conquest fairy-tale. Pipe Rolls over Seacome.
Gamel is named in Domesday Book, 1086, as a king's thane of Staffordshire — Audley, Balterley, and Talk on the Hill. The place-name Aldithley is a meadow belonging to a Saxon woman named Aldgith.
Liulf paid the 1129 murder-fine and lived. Adam, sheriff, is the common ancestor of both later houses. In 1192 his descendants split the work: senior stays Audley; cadet takes Stanleigh.
Sister houses
Women of this house
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Aldgith / Aldgyth
pre-1086 · The meadow is hers. The place-name is the first document.
Words used here
- Thane
- A lord who held land directly from the king and owed him military service.
- Cadet
- A younger line of the same blood. Related. Not the heir.
- Domesday Book
- William I’s survey of England — who held what, and from whom.
- Pipe Rolls
- The annual accounts of the Exchequer — who owed the king money, and why.