Goldwine

Male
CPL
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Discussion of the name

Goldwine is a masculine OE name formed from the elements gold (‘gold’) and wine (‘friend, protector, lord’). Apart from the persons in DB, the name is recorded from Anglo-Saxon England only as that of moneyers, working variously at Canterbury, Rochester, London, and Stamford under Æthelred II in the period 991–1009 (Goldwine 2–4, 6), and under Edward the Confessor at Shrewsbury 1059–62 (Goldwine 5), Steyning 1065–6 (Goldwine 7), and Winchcombe 1050–66 (Goldwine 8). The last continued to strike coins for William I, and another (or conceivably the same) Goldwine worked at Dover for William II (EMC). Other Goldwines appear in the later eleventh century and the early twelfth (Searle 1897: 267).

The second element of the name was one of the most productive in Anglo-Saxon times, but names in Gold– seem to have been new in the very late tenth century and are found especially in towns (EMC; PASE; Searle 1897: 266–7).

Bibliography

EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc

Searle 1897: William George Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to that of King John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897)

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: Golduinus, Golduuinus, Goluinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Goldwine

  Phillimore edition: Goldwin

  Alecto edition: Goldwine

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
Sussex 10,28 West Burton Goluinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' Edward, king Robert, count of Mortain - 1.00 0.60 0.60 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu William 'the man of Robert, count of Eu' 4.50 3.75 4.76 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu Reinbert 0.50 0.42 0.53 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu Hugh the crossbowman 0.50 0.42 0.53 C Map
Sussex 9,16 Cortesley Golduinus Goldwine 'of Cortesley' - Robert, count of Eu - 0.50 0.42 0.53 C Map
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Subtenant in 1086

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
Essex B3a Colchester Golduinus - - William, king Goldwine, burgess 0.00 0.00 0.00 C Map
Essex B3a Colchester Golduuinus - - William, king Goldwine, burgess 0.00 0.00 0.00 C Map
Oxfordshire B10 Oxford Golduinus - - William, king Goldwine 0.00 0.00 0.00 - Map
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