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Cynewig

Discussion of the name

Cynewig is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements cynn ‘rank, family, kin’ and wīg ‘strife, war, valour’.

The entries for this name in the PASE corpus are for Cynewig 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB, and Cynewig 2, a London moneyer active 1036-8. Although the PASE corpus omits the Cænwig mæsse preost who witnesses S 1506 of c.958, which von Feilitzen (1937: 221 n3) suggested as representing Cynewig, the only other instance of the name recorded outside DB appears to be among the twelfth-century entries in the Liber vitæ of Hyde (Searle 1897: 159). This paucity of evidence implies that the name was extremely rare in early medieval England.

Bibliography

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

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Cheneuui, Chenui, Chenuicelle, Chenuichelle

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Cynewīg

  Phillimore edition: Cynwy, Kenwin (+ Cynewig in Index)

  Alecto edition: Cynewig

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 Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 1,58	Vill Arlington	DB Spelling Cheuichelle	Holder 1066 Cynewig Cylla	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 10.00	1086 Value 10.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 66,1	Vill Saintbury	DB Spelling Chenuicelle	Holder 1066 Cynewig Cylla	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hascoit Musard	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 10.00	1066 Value 12.00	1086 Value 10.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 24,6	Vill Asce	DB Spelling Cheneuui	Holder 1066 Cynewig Cylla	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence D	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 27,14	Vill Ashton Gifford	DB Spelling Chenui	Holder 1066 Cynewig 'of Ashton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Humphrey de L'Isle	1086 Subtenant Robert 'the man of Humphrey de L'Isle'	Fiscal Value 6.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Cynewig 3 - Cynewig Cylla, fl. 1066
• Cynewig 4 - Cynewig ‘of Ashton’ (Wilts.), fl. 1066