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Api

Discussion of the name

Api is an Old Danish masculine name derived from the word for ‘fool’ and originally used as a byname (Fellows Jensen 1968: 11).

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Ape 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this form in DB, and for Appe 1, a tenth-century occurrence of a related form.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Ape, Appe

Spellings in Domesday Book: Apius

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Api

  Phillimore edition: Ape

  Alecto edition: Api

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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 5,15	Vill Timsbury	DB Spelling Ape	Holder 1066 Api 'of Timsbury'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant William de Monceaux	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 1.30	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence B	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 53,2	Vill Whitley	DB Spelling Appe	Holder 1066 Api 'of Timsbury'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Gunfrid Mauduit	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Api 2 - Api ‘of Timsbury’ (Som.), fl. 1066