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Leofcwen

Discussion of the name

Leofcwen is an Old English feminine name comprising the elements lēof ‘dear’ and cwēn ‘woman, wife, queen’.

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Leofcwen 1, granted land in Suffolk before c.1038, and Leofcwen 2, a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB; there are further instances of the name in the twelfth century (von Feilitzen 1945: 84).

Bibliography

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: Lefquena

Forms in modern scholarship:

 von Feilitzen head forms: Lēofcwēn

 Phillimore edition: Leofcwen

 Alecto edition: Leofcwen

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
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 35,8	Vill Gislingham	DB Spelling Lefquena	Holder 1066 Leofcwen 'of Gislingham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Aubrey de Vere	1086 Subtenant Adelelm the man of Aubrey de Vere	Fiscal Value 0.06	1066 Value 0.08	1086 Value 0.08	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Leofcwen 3 - ‘of Gislingham’ (Suffolk), fl. 1066