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Stenesnoc

Discussion of the name

Stenesnoc probably represents the Old Norse masculine name Steini (or perhaps an Old Danish form *Steni) derived from steinn ‘stone’ compounded with a byname snókr ‘snake’, as suggested by von Feilitzen (1937: 373-4; cf. Munby 1982: DB 23,36 Notes), although Fellows Jensen (1968: 257) has a sense ‘snout, saucy person’ for snókr.

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Stenesnoc 1, a catch-all for occurrences of this form in DB, and for Sten 1 (a similar DB catch-all) and Sten 2 (a late-ninth or early-tenth-century moneyer).

Bibliography

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

Munby 1982: Domesday Book 4: Hampshire, ed. J. Munby, (Chichester, 1982)

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: Stenesnoc

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Stenesnoc

  Phillimore edition: Stenesnoc

  Alecto edition: Stenesnoc

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. 23,36	Vill Heckfield	DB Spelling Stenesnoc	Holder 1066 Stenesnoc 'of Heckfield'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh de Port	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 6.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Stenesnoc 2 - Stenesnoc ‘of Heckfield’ (Hants), fl. 1066