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Manna

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Manna, and its variant form Monna, is an Old English masculine name that probably originated as a byname formation from mann ‘man’; formally, it would not be distinguishable from an Anglicized form of the Old Danish name Manni (Redin 1919: 8, 52; von Feilitzen 1937: 324).

There are only three entries in the PASE corpus for Manna, of which Manna 1 and Manna 2 occur in the late eighth and early tenth centuries respectively and Manna 3 is a catch-all for occurrences in DB. However, there are also two entries for Manne and two for Monna that should be regarded as forms of Manna and the name also occurs as that of a gebur in the ‘Hatfield list’ (Insley 2003: 384), for which reason the profiles given below begin with Manna 9; it is also very probable that some of the moneyers entered under the head-form Man in PASE in fact represent the name Manna and that some entries under Monne should also be included here.

Bibliography

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

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

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: Manna, Manno

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Manna

Phillimore edition: Mann, Manno

Alecto edition: Manna, Manni

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 Hampshire	Phil. ref. 3,1	Vill Chilcomb	DB Spelling Manno	Holder 1066 Manna 'of Chilcomb'	Lord 1066 Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walkelin, bishop of Winchester	1086 Subtenant unnamed monks of Old Minster, Winchester, in 1086	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 3.24	1086 Value 7.20	Confidence E	Map
Shire Hampshire	Phil. ref. 45,5	Vill East Dean	DB Spelling Manno	Holder 1066 Manna 'of Dean'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Waleran the huntsman	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence E	Map
Shire Norfolk	Phil. ref. 34,7	Vill Little Snoring	DB Spelling Manna	Holder 1066 Manna 'of Snoring'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Peter de Valognes	1086 Subtenant Ralph Fatatus	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.95	1086 Value 1.95	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Lord 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 Norfolk	Phil. ref. 34,7	Vill Helhoughton	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 1 sokeman	Lord 1066 Manna	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Peter de Valognes	1086 Subtenant Ralph Fatatus	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.05	1086 Value 0.05	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value