Hova Dod (or Dot)
c
1090 to c 1170 (estimated)
DOD00012
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Cadwgan’s descendants established themselves
at Edge Hall within the ancient parish of Malpas, eventually shortening their
name from Dot or Dodde to Dod or Dodd.
Pedigrees Made at the Visitation
of Cheshire, 1613 is a heraldic record
compiled by Richard St George, Norroy King of Arms,
and Henry St George, Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms.
It records pedigrees of families claiming or proving gentility in Cheshire. The
modern edition (Harleian Society, 1909) is based on Harleian MS. 1535, which includes
both authentic visitation entries and additional pedigrees inserted by later
compilers. The descent of the Dods of Edge are
recorded at Pedigrees
Made at the Visitation of Cheshire, 1613,
The Record Society (1909), page
79.
The Dods of Cloverly, from whom the
Dods of Highfields were descended, were in turn a cadet branch of the Dods of
Edge, who had held that manor, near Malpas in
Cheshire, since the reign of Henry II and, as Wolley Dod, are still seated
there today (Robinson, John Martin (1991), Highfields,
Audlem, Cheshire, Seat of John Bellyse Baker, Country Life 31 January 1991,
page 48 see also Country Life, 21 November 21,
1985).
The
family is believed to have been settled at Edge since an alliance between the heiress
of Edge, in the time of Henry II. No direct descent has been deduced until the
fourteenth century, although several of the name resided at Edge prior to this
period. Of these were Cadogan Dod, son of Reginald Dod, who granted to the
Hospitallers of St John of Jerusalem an assart of
land in Edge, given to him by his brother Reginald in c 1180/1190. The first
known ancestor is Thomas (or Roger) Dod. (Burke, John and Burke, Sir
Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth Edition, 1972), Wolley
Dod of Edge in Burke’s Landed Gentry, Volume 3, pages
258 to 259).
1090
Hova was the son of Cadwgan Dod (DOD00011). Hova Dod (also spelled Hwfa, Howsa, or Dot)
was an early medieval landowner in Edge, Cheshire, living around the twelfth or
thirteenth century. He is an ancestor of the historic Dod family and of the Dod
Family of Highfields, who held lands in Edge and Malpas. He may have been born
in or about 1090.
1109
Hova married the Daughter
(EDW00002)
of Edwin of Poulton, Lord of Edge (EDW00001). The wedding
may have been in or about 1109.
Dot's grandson, possibly Hova, married
Edwin's granddaughter and so acquired “Egge”. This was Little Edge, as distinct
from Great Edge; but men named Dot, or the same person, are recorded at 13
different places, and of course were subject to the Norman appointee as
overlord, Earl Edwin of Cholmondeley Castle. Edge itself is situated in lightly
rolling country only three miles east of the Welsh border on the Dee and three
miles north of the old English Maelor of Flintshire. While Edwin presumably was
a Saxon, the recurrence of Welsh sounding names, such as Kadugan,
Hova and Kendrick, alongside Norman ones in the 12th
and 13th century records of the Dods suggest there were English-Welsh
marriages; and Hova (derived from Hwfa),
remains a family Christian name. The proximity to Wales becomes relevant again
in the 18th century, but for the moment it is enough to note that the earliest
Dods called ‘of Egge’, Kadugan and Reginald, sons of
Reginald, mentioned in about 1170. (Haslam, Richard (1985), Edge Hall,
Cheshire, The Home of Mr and Mrs Anthony Wolley Dod, in Country Life, 21
November 1985, pages 1612 to 1615).
Edge Hall is a Grade II listed
Jacobean country house located in Edge, Cheshire, 2 kilometres north Malpas. It
features a timber-framed core from around 1600, a main brick front added in
1721, and a history as the ancestral home of the Dod family spanning many
centuries. Edge Hall was the ancestral home of the Dod family from the twelfth century,
during the reign of Henry II to the early twenty first century. (Edge Hall,
Cheshire in Gazeteer
of British Place Names).
After the direct male line of the
Dod family concluded via heiresses, the estate passed through marriage into the
Wolley family, who took the surname Wolley-Dod.
1110
Hova was the father of Kenric (or
Kendrick) Dod of Edge (DOD00013).
Kenric may have been born in about 1110.
1165
De Hug Dod was recorded in a financial audit
of sums owed to the English Crown. From Hugh Dod and Roger son of Hugh: 3s and
9d. (The Great Roll of the Pipe, Henry II (1165 to 1166),
page 70). The Pipe Rolls were the primary
financial annual reports compiled by the English government's Treasury (the
Exchequer). They detailed the money royal officials (primarily county sheriffs)
collected on behalf of the King. This
list detailed smaller, individual financial obligations, such as judicial
fines, custom duties, amercements (court penalties), or local feudal dues, collected
from residents across the county or borough being audited.
Hugh Dod therefore had another son
called Roger.
1170
Hova may have lived until about 1170.