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Moding

Discussion of the name

Moding is an otherwise unrecorded Old English masculine name formed as an -ing derivative, perhaps originally as a patronymic, of a name base on the element mōd ‘heart, courage, pride, power’.

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: Modinc, Modingus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Mōding

  Phillimore edition: Moding

  Alecto edition: Moding

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 Bedfordshire	Phil. ref. 23,32	Vill Thurleigh	DB Spelling Modingus	Holder 1066 Moding 'of Thurleigh'	Lord 1066 Eadgyth, queen	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh de Beauchamp	1086 Subtenant Leofgeat 'of Thurleigh'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence C	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 25,10	Vill Acleta	DB Spelling Modinc	Holder 1066 Moding 'of Down'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Eudo the steward	1086 Subtenant Richard de Sackville	Fiscal Value 1.58	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.50	Confidence C	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 25,8	Vill Down	DB Spelling Modinc	Holder 1066 Moding 'of Down'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Eudo the steward	1086 Subtenant Richard de Sackville	Fiscal Value 2.17	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Moding 2 - Moding ‘of Down’ (Essex), fl. 1066
• Moding 3 - Moding ‘of Thurleigh’ (Beds.), fl. 1066