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Ælfthryth

Discussion of the name

Ælfthryth is an Old English feminine name comprising the elements ælf ‘elf, sprite’ and þryð ‘might, splendour’.

There are 12 entries for Ælfthryth in the PASE corpus, of which Ælfthryth 1-11 occur between the seventh and tenth centuries and Ælfthryth 12 is a catch-all for occurrences in DB; there is also an entry for Ealfthryth 1, a form from a ninth-century charter (S 1439) that should be reclassified as the name Ælfthryth 13.

Bibliography

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

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: Alftred

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ælfthryth

  Phillimore edition: Aelfthryth

  Alecto edition: Ælfthryth

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 3,1	Vill Laindon	DB Spelling Alftred	Holder 1066 Ælfthryth 'of Laindon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Maurice, bishop of London	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.33	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 3,1	Vill Laindon	DB Spelling Alftred	Holder 1066 Ælfthryth 'of Laindon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Maurice, bishop of London	1086 Subtenant William 'the man of Maurice, bishop of London'	Fiscal Value 1.83	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 3,1	Vill Laindon	DB Spelling Alftred	Holder 1066 Ælfthryth 'of Laindon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Maurice, bishop of London	1086 Subtenant Ralph fitzBrian	Fiscal Value 1.83	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Ælfthryth 14 - Ælfthryth ‘of Laindon’ (Essex), fl. 1066