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Deoring

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Deoring is a masculine OE name, probably formed from the adjective dēor (‘brave, bold, fierce’) with the suffix –ing, though the first element may theoretically have been dēore (‘beloved’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 223; LVD: II, 173). The related byname Dyring was recorded twice in the tenth century, for Beorhtsige 15, a landowner in Kent (fl. 902–8), and Ælfsige 40, a thegnly witness of royal charters (fl. 955) (Tengvik 1938: 143), in both cases probably functioning as a patronym. The late OE personal name may have had a dual origin as both patronymic byname and newly coined independent name.

As a true personal name, Deoring appears first as the name of a thegn witnessing a Kentish charter of 880 (S 321; Deoring 1). In the mid eleventh century there were moneyers of this name at Lewes for the issue conventionally dated 1048–50 (Deoring 3; EMC 1002.1031), London 1059–62 (Deoring 4, EMC 1042.1514), and Stamford 1068–70 (EMC 1021.1171).

The name continued in use in the twelfth century (e.g. LVD: II, 173; Pleas, 1198–1212: I, no. 2422; IV, no. 3440) and later, giving rise to the modern surname Dearing and its variants Deering and Dering (Reaney 1997: 129).

Bibliography

EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc

DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007)

IA:

Pleas, 1198–1212: Pleas before the King or his Justices, 1198–1212, ed. Doris Mary Stenton, 4 vols, Selden Society 67–8 and 83–4 (for 1948, 1949, 1966, and 1967)

Reaney 1997: P. H. Reaney, A Dictionary of English Surnames, 3rd edn with corrections and additions by R. M. Wilson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)

S: P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 8 (London, 1968), revised by S. Kelly, R. Rushforth et al., The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters, published online through Kemble: The Anglo-Saxon Charters Website, currently at http://www.esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html

Tengvik 1938: Gösta Tengvik, Old English Bynames, Nomina Germanica 4 (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1938)

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: Derinc, Dering(us)

Spellings in IA: Diryng

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Dēoring, Dyring

Phillimore edition: Dering

Alecto edition: Deoring (Kent, Surr., Lincs.); Dyring (Suff.)

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 Kent	Phil. ref. 5,15	Vill Farningham	DB Spelling Dering	Holder 1066 Deoring 'of Chaldon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Ernulf de Hesdin	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence D	Map
Shire Kent	Phil. ref. M19	Vill Deal	DB Spelling Derinc	Holder 1066 Deoring son of Sigeræd	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Unnamed canons of Dover in 1086	1086 Subtenant William fitzTedald	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,118	Vill Kuluertestuna	DB Spelling Deringus	Holder 1066 Deoring 'of Kuluertestuna'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant William de Bourneville	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.04	1086 Value 0.04	Confidence A	Map
Shire Surrey	Phil. ref. 5,9	Vill Chaldon	DB Spelling Derinc	Holder 1066 Deoring 'of Chaldon'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Ralph 'the man of Odo, bishop of Bayeux'	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 12,48	Vill Fulbeck and Leadenham	DB Spelling Derinc	Holder 1066 Ralph the staller	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant Deoring	Fiscal Value 2.88	1066 Value 3.59	1086 Value 3.83	Confidence A	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 12,48	Vill Fulbeck and Leadenham	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Ralph the staller	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 18.25	1066 Value 22.81	1086 Value 24.33	Confidence A	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 24,100	Vill Hough on the Hill	DB Spelling Derinc	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 Ulf Fenisc	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Gilbert of Ghent	1086 Subtenant Deoring	Fiscal Value 3.38	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value