Glewine

Male
CPL
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Discussion of the name

The spelling Gleuuinus certainly represents an OE name ending with the very common element wine ‘friend, protector, lord’. For the first element, the spelling can only represent one of two OE words, glīw, glēo ‘pleasure, music, mirth’, or glēaw ‘prudent, wise’. The former is less likely, since the comparable Domesday name to which von Feilitzen drew attention, Gliwmann, was formed from a word of common vocabulary, glīwmann, glēomann, ‘a minstrel or jester’, and this does not prove that glīw, glēo was used in forming personal names. A word meaning ‘prudent, wise’ is more likely, on the grounds that another word with an overlapping semantic range, smēah sagacious, acute, subtle’, was certainly used to form the name Smeawine (von Feilitzen 1937: 262, 366). Names which meant ‘wise friend’ are fully in accordance with late Anglo-Saxon naming habits.

The name is given as Glewin in both the Phillimore and Alecto editions of DB.

Bibliography

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: Gleuuinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Gleuuinus, suggesting OE Glīwwine or Glēowine

  Phillimore edition: Glewin

  Alecto edition: Glewin

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
Cheshire 17,4 Wettenhall Gleuuinus Glewine 'of Wettenhall' - Hugh, earl Gilbert de Venables 1.00 0.25 0.25 - Map
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