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Osgifu

Discussion of the name

Osgifu is an Old English feminine name comprising the elements ōs ‘divinity, god’ and gifu ‘gift’.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Osgifu 1, wife of the eighth-century Northumbrian king Alhred 1; Searle cites a further example from the Durham Liber Vitae (Searle 1897: 374); and the PASE corpus also includes an entry for Odeua 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB.

Bibliography

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (Cambridge, 1897)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Odeua

Spellings in Exon: Oseua

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Odeua  [= Odgiva or Ōsgifu]

  Phillimore edition: Oseva

  Alecto edition: Odeua

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 52,1	Vill Chilsworthy	DB Spelling Odeua	Holder 1066 Osgifu 'of Chilsworthy'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Colwine the reeve	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Osgifu 2 - Osgifu ‘of Chilsworthy’ (Devon), fl. 1066