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Bosi

Discussion of the name

Bosi is an Old Norse or Old Danish masculine name and is the most probable interpretation of the DB forms because the Old English name Bosa is not recorded after the late ninth century (Redin 1919: 86, 132; von Feilitzen 1937: 207); there is also one instance in DB where Bosi occurs as an erroneous spelling for the name Bisi.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Bosi 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB.

Bibliography

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

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: Bose, Boso

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Bósi

  Phillimore edition: Bose, Boso

  Alecto edition: Bosi

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. 90,22	Vill Rockells Farm	DB Spelling Boso	Holder 1066 Bosi 'of Wyggepet'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Bosi 2 - Bosi father of Leofric, fl. TRE
• Bosi 3 - Bosi ‘of Wyggepet’ (Essex), fl. 1066