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Epi

Discussion of the name

Epi is an Old Danish masculine name, perhaps originating as a byname developed from øpa ‘to scream, yell’ (Bjorkman 1910: 37; Fellows Jensen 1968: 341). There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

Björkman 1910: Erik Björkman, Nordische Personennamen in England in alt- und frühmittel-englischer Zeit, Studien zur englischen Philologie 37 (Halle an der Saale, 1910; reprinted Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1973)

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

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Epi, Epy

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Øpi

  Phillimore edition: Oepi

  Alecto edition: Øpi

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 36,3	Vill Chesham	DB Spelling Epy	Holder 1066 Epi 'of Chesham'	Lord 1066 Beorhtric, man of Queen Eadgyth	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Thurstan Mantel	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence D	Map
Shire Surrey	Phil. ref. 5,12	Vill Wallington	DB Spelling Epi	Holder 1066 Epi 'of Chesham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Ansgot 'of Streatham'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Epi 2 - Epi ‘of Chesham’ (Buckinghamshire), fl. 1066