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Magni

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Magni is an Old Norse or Old Danish masculine name developed either as a short form of names in Magn- (originally from Latin magnus ‘great’) or as a side-form of Magnus; there is occasional confusion with the name Manni, and one instance of Magno in DB in fact refers to Manni 4 (Smith 1928: 274; von Feilitzen 1937: 323-4; Fellows Jensen 1968: 192).

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Smith 1928: A. H. Smith, The Place-Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire (Cambridge, 1928)

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: Magna, Magne

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Magni

Phillimore edition: Magni

Alecto edition: Magni

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 Huntingdonshire	Phil. ref. 23,1	Vill Waresley	DB Spelling Magne	Holder 1066 Magni 'of Waresley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Ranulph brother of Ilger	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.25	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,101	Vill Benhall	DB Spelling Magna	Holder 1066 Magni 'of Benhall'	Lord 1066 Eadric of Laxfield	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.05	1066 Value 0.06	1086 Value 0.05	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value