Top of page Discussion Bibliography Forms Distribution Map Property List People of this Name Bottom of page

Wihtnoth

Discussion of the name

Wihtnoth is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements wiht ‘person, creature, being’ and nōð ‘bold, daring’.

There are three entries for this name in the PASE corpus, of which Wihtnoth 1 witnessed an eighth-century Kent charter, Wihtnoth 2 witnessed one relating to land in Dorset in 1033 and Wihtnoth 3 is a catch-all category for instances in DB; there is also Wisnod 1, a catch-all for this form in DB.

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: Wicnod, Wisnodus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Wihtnōð

  Phillimore edition: Wihtnoth, Wisnoth

  Alecto edition: Wihtnoth

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 Dorset	Phil. ref. 35,1	Vill Milton on Stour	DB Spelling Wicnod	Holder 1066 Wihtnoth 'of Milton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Falaise	1086 Subtenant Roger 'the man of William de Falaise'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence D	Map
Shire Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 43,2	Vill Leonard Stanley	DB Spelling Wisnodus	Holder 1066 Wihtnoth 'of Stanley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ralph of Berkeley	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.25	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Wihtnoth 4 - Wihtnoth ‘of Stanley’ (Glos.), fl. 1066
• Wihtnoth 5 - Wihtnoth ‘of Milton’ (Dors.), fl. 1066