Leofhild

Male
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Discussion of the name

Leofhild is an Old English feminine name comprising the elements lēof ‘dear’ and hild ‘war, combat’; it does not appear in surviving records until after the Conquest.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Leofhild 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB; a Leofilde also occurs as the subject of a Devon manumission of the late eleventh century (Pelteret 1990: 110).

Bibliography

Pelteret 1990: D. A. E. Pelteret, Catalogue of English Post-Conquest Vernacular Documents (Woodbridge, 1990)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Leuild, Levild

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Lēofhild

  Phillimore edition: Leofhild

  Alecto edition: Leofhild

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 DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Essex 30,3 Abbess Roding Leuild Leofhild 'of Roding' Ælfgifu, abbess of Barking Geoffrey de Mandeville Geoffrey Martel 0.75 1.50 2.00 B Map
Totals

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

Shire Phil. ref. Vill DB Spelling Holder 1066 Lord 1066 Tenant-in-Chief 1086 1086 Subtenant Fiscal Value 1066 Value 1086 Value Conf. Show on Map
Staffordshire 17,20 Shushions Levild - - Leofhild ‘of Shushions’ - 0.50 0.20 0.20 B Map
Totals