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Lindbald

Discussion of the name

Lindbald is a Continental Germanic masculine name comprising the elements linta ‘lime[-tree]’ or lind ‘snake’ compounded with bald ‘bold, audacious’.

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

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: Linbaldus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Lindbald

  Phillimore edition: Lindbald

  Alecto edition: Lindbald

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 Berkshire	Phil. ref. 7,25	Vill Lyford	DB Spelling Linbaldus	Holder 1066 Lindbald the monk 'of Lyford'	Lord 1066 Ordric, abbot of Abingdon	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Reynold, abbot of Abingdon	1086 Subtenant Reynold 'of St Helens'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Lindbald 2 - Lindbald the monk, ‘of Lyford’ (Berks.), fl. 1066