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Beorhtflæd

Gender: Female

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Beorhtflæd is an Old English feminine name comprising the elements beorht ‘bright, distinguished, pure’ and flæd ‘beauty’.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Beorhtflæd 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB, although Searle (1897: 88) notes that it also occurs in the Durham Liber Vitae, and it is associated with a minor name in a Kent charter (S 885).

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

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (Cambridge, 1897)

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: Brictflet, Britfleda

Spellings in FBB: Brihtfled

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Beorhtflæd

Phillimore edition: Beorhtflaed, Brictfled

Alecto edition: Beorhtflæd

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 Norfolk	Phil. ref. 14,21	Vill Starston	DB Spelling Brictflet	Holder 1066 Beorhtflæd 'of Starston'	Lord 1066 Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds	1086 Subtenant Roger Bigod	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 6,62	Vill Rickinghall	DB Spelling Britfleda	Holder 1066 Beorhtflæd 'of Starston'	Lord 1066 Eadric of Laxfield	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert Malet	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value