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Godeza
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Discussion of the name
Godeza is the feminine form of the Continental Germanic name Godizo, itself a diminutive form of a name with got ‘god’ or guot ‘good’ as first element (Forssner 1916: 121; von Feilitzen 1937: 264).There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.
Bibliography
IA: An Eleventh-Century Inquisition of St Augustine’s, Canterbury, ed. A. Ballard, Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales 4 (London: Humphrey Milford for Oxford University Press, 1920)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: Godes(s)aSpellings in IA: Godehose
Forms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Godeza
Phillimore edition: Godesa
Alecto edition: Godeza
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire | IoW9,11 | Nettlestone | Godesa | Godeza 'of Nettlestone' | Edward, king | Humphrey fitzStur | - | 0.33 | 3.00 | 1.00 | C | Map |
| Kent | 5,200 | Betteshanger | Godesa | Godeza 'of Elmstone' | Edward, king | Odo, bishop of Bayeux | Osbern fitzLetard | 0.75 | 3.00 | 2.50 | C | Map |
| Kent | 7,24 | Elmstone | Godesa | Godeza 'of Elmstone' | Æthelsige, abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury | Scotland, abbot of St Augustine's Canterbury | Ansfrid Masculus | 1.67 | 1.25 | 1.88 | B | Map |
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