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Fugel

Discussion of the name

Fugel is an Old English masculine name derived from the noun fugel ‘fowl, bird’ and probably originating as a byname or nickname; it is not always possible to distinguish the OE form of the name from its Scandinavian cognates (Redin 1919: 6-7; von Feilitzen 1937: 256; cf. Fellows Jensen 1968: 88).

There are six entries for this name in the PASE corpus, of whom Fugel 1 is mentioned in a later tenth- or eleventh-century will, Fugel 2 is a catch-all category for occurrences in DB and Fugol 1-4 (recte Fugel 3-6) represent one or more moneyers active c. 925-959; a Fugel was also a member of a guild at Halsford, Devon, in the 1080s (Insley and Probert forthcoming). 

Bibliography

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

Insley and Probert forthcoming: J. Insley and D. Probert, ‘Personal names in the Exeter guild-lists’ (forthcoming)

M. Redin, Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala, 1919), pp. 6-7.

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Winton: ‘The Winton Domesday’, ed. and trans. Frank Barlow, in Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday, ed. Martin Biddle, Winchester Studies 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 1–141

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Fulghel

Spellings in Winton: Fugel

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Fugel

  Phillimore edition: Fugel

  Alecto edition: Fugel

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. S2	Vill Southampton	DB Spelling Fulghel	Holder 1066 Fugel 'of Southampton'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Fugel 7 - Fugel ‘of Southampton’ (Hants), fl. c.1057x1066