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Gundrada

Discussion of the name

Gundrada is a feminine name of Continental Germanic origin formed from elements which correspond to the Old High German words gund (‘war, battle’) and rat (‘advice, counsel, wisdom’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 277; Forssner 1916: 10, 21 note 4, 133, 134). There is only one person of the name documented in Anglo-Saxon England, a woman who held land in Sussex in 1066 (Gundrada 3).

Bibliography

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala: K. W. Appelbergs, 1916)

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: Gondrede

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Gundrada

  Phillimore edition: Gundrada

  Alecto edition: Gundrada

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 Sussex	Phil. ref. 11,72	Vill Goring	DB Spelling Gondrede	Holder 1066 Gundrada 'of Goring'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Robert fitzTheobald	Fiscal Value 4.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Gundrada 3 - Gundrada ‘of Goring’ (Suss.), fl. 1066