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Brunhyse

Discussion of the name

Brunhyse is an OE masculine name formed from the elements brūn (‘brown’) and hyse (‘son, young man, warrior’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 209). Brūn was in widespread use as a name element in the mid eleventh century, though perhaps quite a recent fashion. Hyse was much rarer, otherwise found among TRE landowners only in the names of Godhyse 3 and the much more doubtful case of Leofhyse in ICC, where the name is probably a mistranscription of Leofgifu.

The name Brunhyse is otherwise recorded only once, as that of a moneyer at Colchester in the period 1044–56 (Brunhyse 2).

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: Bruhise

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Brūnhyse

  Phillimore edition: Brunhyse

  Alecto edition: Brunhyse

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 Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,11	Vill Harpswell	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Brunhyse brother of Agemund	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzLambert	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.63	1066 Value 0.11	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence C	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 28,15	Vill Redbourne	DB Spelling Bruhise	Holder 1066 Brunhyse brother of Agemund	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzLambert	1086 Subtenant 1 man	Fiscal Value 2.38	1066 Value 4.33	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Brunhyse 3 - Brunhyse brother of Agemund, fl. 1066