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Aswith

Discussion of the name

Aswith is the Old Danish form of a masculine name comprising the Old Norse elements ás ‘a god’ and viðr ‘tree, wood’ (cf. Fellow Jensen 1968: 342, 352).

There are no entries for this name in the PASE corpus.

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: Osuuid

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ásviðr

  Phillimore edition: Oswith

  Alecto edition: Aswith

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. 32,3	Vill Siddington	DB Spelling Osuuid	Holder 1066 Aswith 'of Siddington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzBaderon	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.20	1086 Value 1.20	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Aswith 1 - Aswith ‘of Siddington’ (Glos.), fl. 1066