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Ælling

Discussion of the name

Ælling is a masculine Old English name in which an uncompounded name (Ælla, Ælli, or Alla) has been combined with the suffix –ing (von Feilitzen 1937: 146). The formal possibility that the base was a Scandinavian name (ON Áli or ODan Alli) is unlikely in view of the West Saxon provenance of Ælling. No other instance apart from one person in DB is currently recorded in PASE.

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: -

Spellings in Exon: Alinc

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Alinc

  Phillimore edition: Alling

  Alecto edition: -

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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 22,18	Vill Cary Fitzpaine	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Ælling 'of Cary'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Arundel	1086 Subtenant Robert of Gatemore	Fiscal Value 0.47	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Ælling 2 - Ælling ‘of Cary’ (Som.), fl. 1066