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Steorra

Discussion of the name

Steorra is an Old English masculine name derived from steorra ‘star’ and probably originating as a byname (cf. Leofnoth Sterre); the DB form parallels one of those for the probably Anglo-Scandinavian name *Sterri, but the names and individuals are distinct (von Feilitzen 1937: 374; Tengvik 1938: 381; cf. Fellows Jensen 1968: 265).

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Steorra 1, a king’s rædesmann in Kent in 1037x1040, and Sterre 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this form in DB.

Bibliography

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

Tengvik 1938: Gösta Tengvik, Old English Bynames, Nomina Germanica 4 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1938)

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: Sterre

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sterre

  Phillimore edition: Star

  Alecto edition: Sterre

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 Hampshire	Phil. ref. 23,40	Vill Lockerley	DB Spelling Sterre	Holder 1066 Steorra 'of Lockerley'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh de Port	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Steorra 3 - Steorra ‘of Lockerley’ (Hants), fl. 1066