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Ordweald

Discussion of the name

Ordweald is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements ord ‘point, spear-point, spear’ and weald ‘power, dominion; ruler’.

The only specific entry in the PASE corpus is for Ordweald 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB; but there are two entries for the form Ordwald representing one or two thegns in the mid-tenth century, and for this reason the profiles given here commence with Ordweald 3.

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Orduuold(us)

Spellings in Exon: Ordualdus, Orduualdus

Forms in modern scholarship:

 von Feilitzen head forms: Ordweald

 Phillimore edition: Ordwold

 Alecto edition: Ordweald

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. 41,1	Vill Chilbolton	DB Spelling Orduuold	Holder 1066 Ordweald 'of Chilbolton'	Lord 1066 Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard Estormi	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 3.75	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 4.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 5,62	Vill Cameley	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Ordweald 'of Cameley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 -	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 4.50	1066 Value 3.45	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 67,65	Vill Shalbourne	DB Spelling Orduuoldus	Holder 1066 Ordweald 'of Chilbolton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Wulfric Waula	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 68,7	Vill Shalbourne	DB Spelling Orduuoldus	Holder 1066 Ordweald 'of Chilbolton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard Estormi	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.75	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Ordweald 3 - Ordweald ‘of Chilbolton’ (Hants), fl. 1066
• Ordweald 4 - Ordweald ‘of Cameley’ (Som.), fl. 1066