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Uhtbrand

Discussion of the name

Uhtbrand was one of a small number of names coined by splicing OE and Scandinavian elements. Old English uht confusing meant both ‘dawn’ and ‘dusk’ (Feilitzen 1937: 398); brand was the same word as OIcel brandr ‘sword’ (Fellows Jensen 1968: 348). The name shows the creativity of English-speakers in forming new names.

The spelling common to the four instances in the east Midlands, Uctebrand or Vctebrand (the latter with capital U written as V) represents the sound of the name closely. The Cheshire example, Ostebrand, is unexpected, since the commonest personal name with Uht- as its first element, Uhtræd, was never spelled Ost– across some seventy occurrences in Domesday Book, though spellings in Vs- are occasionally found in ExonDB and LDB. On the other hand, it is difficult to see what other name Ostebrand could represent (Feilitzen 1937: 398).

Phillimore and Alecto use Feilitzen’s head-form Uhtbrand, except that in Philllimore Lincolnshire the name appears hypercorrected to Uhtbrandr.

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: Ostebrand, Uctebrand, Vctebrand

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Uhtbrand

  Phillimore edition: Uhtbrand, Uhtbrandr (Lincs.)

  Alecto edition: Uhtbrand

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 19,3	Vill Nether Tabley	DB Spelling Ostebrand	Holder 1066 Uhtbrand ‘of Nether Tabley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Jocelin Tuschet	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Shire Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 6,93	Vill Aston-on-Trent	DB Spelling Vctebrand	Holder 1066 Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Henry de Ferrers	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.30	1086 Value 0.40	Confidence -	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. 59,1	Vill Denton	DB Spelling Vctebrand	Holder 1066 Uhtbrand ‘of Denton’	Lord 1066 Eadgyth, queen	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert of Stafford	1086 Subtenant Geoffrey 'the man of Robert of Stafford'	Fiscal Value 1.75	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Shire Nottinghamshire	Phil. ref. 29,2	Vill Trowell	DB Spelling Vctebrand	Holder 1066 Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William the usher	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 1,38	Vill Aston-on-Trent and Shardlow	DB Spelling Uctebrand	Holder 1066 Ælfgar, earl	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’	Fiscal Value 0.81	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Uhtbrand 2 - Uhtbrand ‘of Denton’ (Lincs.), fl. 1066
• Uhtbrand 3 - Uhtbrand ‘of Trowell’ (Notts.), fl. 1066
• Uhtbrand 4 - Uhtbrand ‘of Nether Tabley’ (Ches.), fl. 1066