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Fridebern

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Fridebern is a Continental Germanic masculine name comprising the elements fridu ‘peace’ and beren ‘man, warrior’, although linguistic or scribal ambiguities mean that some forms of Fridebern and Fridebert are confused in DB (Forssner 1916: 93; von Feiltizen 1937: 253-4; Dodgson 1985: 43).

Bibliography

Dodgson 1985: J. McN. Dodgson, ‘Some Domesday personal-names, mainly post-Conquest’, Nomina 9 (1985), 41-51

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

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: Fredebernus, Frieber, Friebernus

Spellings in FBB: Frebern

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Fridebern

Phillimore edition: Fridebern, Frideb...

Alecto edition: Fridebern, Frideb[...]

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 Suffolk	Phil. ref. 25,82	Vill Haverhill	DB Spelling Fredebernus	Holder 1066 Fridebern 'of Haverhill'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Payn 'of Wratting'	Fiscal Value 0.67	1066 Value 0.67	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 32,6	Vill Stutton	DB Spelling Friebernus	Holder 1066 Fridebern 'of Stutton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant Raynelm 'of Stutton'	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 74,16	Vill Coddenham	DB Spelling Frieber	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Fridebern the priest	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value