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Doding

Discussion of the name

Doding is an Old English masculine name unrecorded before DB, although it occurs as both a personal name and a surname during the later medieval period. The origin of the name is uncertain. It probably originated as a patronymic meaning ‘son of Dod(d)a or Dud(d)a’, although it could also be an -ing derivative of a word *dod(d) or *dud(d) of uncertain meaning; a further possibility is that it originated as a childish or lall-name (Redin 1919: 16, 62-3, 169-70; von Feilitzen 1937: 223-5; Insley 2003: 384).

All of the DB spellings have ‹o› as the vowel of the main element, hence the use of Doding as the head-form here. However, it is possible that some of these forms could represent the closely-related name Dud(d)ing. Seven pre-Conquest moneyers called Duding are recorded, of whom Duding 1-3 were active in London between 1036 and 1053. A man called Duding also occurs in the tenth-century ‘Hatfield list’ of peasants (Insley 2003: 384).

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala, 1937)

Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23, Pfalzel – Quaden (Berlin and New York, 2003), 367-96

Redin 1919: M. Redin, Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala, 1919)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Dodinc, Dodingus, Dodinz

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: *Dod(d)ing

  Phillimore edition: Doding

  Alecto edition: Doding

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 21,2	Vill Waldridge	DB Spelling Dodinz	Holder 1066 Doding 'of Waldridge'	Lord 1066 Esgar the staller	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant Swærting 'of Leckhampstead'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence C	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 29,1	Vill Tilty	DB Spelling Dodingus	Holder 1066 Doding 'of Easton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 7.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 42,3	Vill Easton	DB Spelling Dodinc	Holder 1066 Doding 'of Easton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walter the deacon	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 7.00	1086 Value 8.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Middlesex	Phil. ref. 3,2	Vill Stepney	DB Spelling Dodingus	Holder 1066 Doding 'of Stepney'	Lord 1066 William, bishop of London	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Maurice, bishop of London	1086 Subtenant Hugh de Bernières	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.33	1086 Value 0.29	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Doding 2 - Doding ‘of Easton’ (Essex), fl. 1066
• Doding 3 - Doding ‘of Waldridge’ (Buckinghamshire), fl. 1066
• Doding 4 - Doding ‘of Stepney’ (Middlesex), fl. 1066