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Hunmann

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Hunmann is an Old English masculine name, the first element deriving from either an OE word *hūn cognate with Old Norse húnn ‘bear-cub’ or one linked to the ethnic name of the Huns (Insley 2003: 376; contra von Feilitzen 1937: 295-6) and the second element being OE mann ‘person, man’.

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Hunmann 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB, and Hunman 1-3, representing one or more moneyers active in Devon in the early eleventh century.

Bibliography

Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23 (Berlin and New York, 2003), 367-96

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: Hunman

WD: ‘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 in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Hūnmann

Phillimore edition: Hunman

Alecto edition: Hunmann

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. 53,3	Vill Lavendon	DB Spelling Hunman	Holder 1066 Hunmann 'of Lavendon'	Lord 1066 Alli	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Judith, countess	1086 Subtenant Roger of Olney	Fiscal Value 2.31	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value