Eadwulf

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Discussion of the name

Eadwulf is an Old English masculine name formed from the elements ēad (‘riches, happiness’) and wulf (‘wolf’). In its late OE form, Eddulf or Adulf, it is difficult to distinguish from Æthelwulf. Some of the men profiled here may well really have been called Æthelwulf rather than Eadwulf, but the overlap of DB spellings and the impossibility of certainty make it convenient to discuss all the spellings here as if they were forms of Eadwulf.

The GDB form Hadulfus was assigned by von Feilitzen (1937: 282) to CG Hadulf or OE Heaðuwulf, evidently preferring the latter. Hadulfus, who still held land in 1086, seems, however, to be the same person as Eddulfus, and in an early twelfth-century charter (though one which survives only in a later cartulary copy) his son used a patronym which evidently stood for Æthelwulf (Eadwulf 63). In any case, the reappearance of the OE name Heaðuwulf in the late Anglo-Saxon period (after almost two centuries of apparent disuse) is less certain than von Feilitzen claimed, since his examples are all either post-Conquest or moneyers, and the individuals concerned probably had names of Continental origin.

Von Feilitzen suggested that the spelling Adulf represented either Æðelwulf (via an intermediate form Aðulf), or Heaðuwulf, or CG Adulf or Hadulf (1937: 140). Heaðuwulf can be ruled out for the reasons given above, and a CG origin for the names of minor landowners never seems likely without some plausible social context for the adoption of the name locally. Adulf may well often represent Æthelwulf or Athulf, but it should be noted that Eadwulf 62’s name was spelled both A– and Ed–, and Eadwulf 61’s appears as Edd–, Iad– (for Ead–), and A–.

Eadwulf was a common name, with several dozen individuals recorded in PASE, from as early as the late seventh century until the mid eleventh, and from all parts of England (PASE: Eadwulf 1–59).

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Eddulf(us), Adolfus, Adulf(us), Edeulf, Edulf, Hadulfus, Hedul, Iadulf(us)

Spellings in Exon: Edolfus, Erdulfus, Hatulfus, Iadolfus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Eadwulf (with some spellings assigned to Adulf (Adulf, Adulfus) and Hadulfus (Hadulfus))

  Phillimore edition: Adolf (von Feilitzen’s Adulf and Hadulfus), Edwulf, Eadwulf

  Alecto edition: Adulf (von Feilitzen’s Adulf), Eadwulf

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
Derbyshire 6,64 Thurvaston Hedul Eadwulf 'of Thurvaston' - Henry de Ferrers Robert de St Quentin 1.50 4.00 2.00 A Map
Devon 16,115 Martin Iadulf Eadwulf 'of Fursham' - Baldwin the sheriff Richard fitzTurolf 0.25 0.50 0.50 A Map
Devon 16,124 Hole Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Baldwin the sheriff Otelin 0.50 0.00 0.25 C Map
Devon 16,60 Beetor Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Fursham' - Baldwin the sheriff Ansger the man of Baldwin the sheriff 0.25 1.00 1.25 A Map
Devon 16,93 Fursham Eddulf Eadwulf 'of Fursham' - Baldwin the sheriff unnamed monks of Mont Saint-Michel 0.25 1.00 1.50 A Map
Herefordshire 15,1 Hope Mansell Edeulf Eadwulf 'of Bickerton' - William fitzBaderon Salomon 'of Ruardean' 2.00 1.00 1.00 B Map
Herefordshire 15,5 Bickerton Adulf Eadwulf 'of Bickerton' - William fitzBaderon Geoffrey 'of Lower Hampen' 1.00 1.50 1.50 B Map
Somerset 19,24 Donyatt Adulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Robert, count of Mortain Drew 'of Montacute' 2.00 1.67 1.67 C Map
Somerset 19,76 Poyntington Adulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Robert, count of Mortain William de Courseulles 2.50 1.50 2.00 C Map
Somerset 21,78 Cheddar Adulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Roger de Courseulles Robert 'the man of Roger de Courseulles' 2.25 2.00 1.50 C Map
Somerset 46,21 Barton St David - Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Mauger de Carteret - 1.00 0.00 0.00 C Map
Somerset 46,21 Barton St David Iadulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Edmund fitzPayn - 3.50 6.00 3.00 C Map
Somerset 46,22 Pitcote Iadulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Edmund fitzPayn - 3.50 4.00 4.00 C Map
Warwickshire 17,52 Binley Hadulfus Eadwulf 'of Binley' - Thorkil of Warwick Eadwulf 2.00 1.00 1.75 A Map
Wiltshire 4,1 North Tidworth Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Odo, bishop of Bayeux Odo 'the man of Bishop Odo' 5.00 4.50 4.50 D Map
Wiltshire 4,2 Woodhill Eddulfus Eadwulf 'of Barton St David' - Odo, bishop of Bayeux Odo 'the man of Bishop Odo' 6.00 4.00 4.00 D Map
Yorkshire 5E39 Cranswick Eddulf Eadwulf 'of Cranswick' - Robert, count of Mortain Nigel Fossard 3.17 1.00 0.17 A Map
Yorkshire 9W52 Ackworth Eddulf Eadwulf 'of Ackworth' - Ilbert de Lacy Humphrey de Veilly 3.00 2.00 1.50 C Map
Yorkshire 9W87 Denby Edulf Eadwulf 'of Ackworth' - Ilbert de Lacy Alric 'of Cawthorne' 1.50 0.25 0.15 C Map
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Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

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
Hampshire 69,25 Mottisfont Eddulf unnamed father of Eadwulf - Eadwulf, king's thegn - 0.00 0.03 0.03 A Map
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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
Buckinghamshire 23,30 Addington Eddulfus Leofwig 'of Addington' Eadwig 'of Addington' Miles Crispin Eadwulf 0.50 0.50 0.50 A Map
Devon 1,72 Down St Mary Adolfus Boia 'of Down' - William, king Eadwulf 0.38 0.50 0.50 E Map
Devon 19,45 Axminster Eddulfus Viking 'of Awliscombe' - William Chevre Eadwulf 0.25 1.00 1.00 Z Map
Staffordshire 4,8 Okeover Eddulfus Leofric, abbot of Peterborough, Burton, Thorney, and Coventry - Geoffrey de Malaterra, abbot of Burton Eadwulf 0.75 1.00 1.00 B Map
Warwickshire 17,25 Rugby Eddulfus Edwin the sheriff - Thorkil of Warwick Eadwulf 2.50 2.50 2.00 A Map
Warwickshire 17,52 Binley Hadulfus Eadwulf 'of Binley' - Thorkil of Warwick Eadwulf 2.00 1.00 1.75 A Map
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