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Holmger
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Discussion of the name
Holmger is an Old Danish or Old Swedish masculine name comprising the elements hulm ‘island’ and ger ‘spear’; the Old Norse form Hólmgeirr is unlikely because names in Holm- are generally late borrowings (von Feilitzen 1937: 292; Adigard des Gautries 1954: 110; Fellows Jensen 1968: 143).There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.
Bibliography
Adigard des Gautries 1954: J. Adigard des Gautries, Les noms de personnes scandinaves en Normandie de 911 à 1066, Nomina Germanica 11 (Lund, 1954)Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)
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: HolengarForms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Hólmgeirr
Phillimore edition: Holmger
Alecto edition: Holmger
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hampshire | NF3,15 | Beckley | Holengar | Holmger 'of Beckley' | - | Roger, earl | Nigel 'the man of Earl Roger' | 0.75 | 1.00 | 0.75 | C | Map |
| Hampshire | NF3,15 | Beckley | Holengar | Holmger 'of Beckley' | - | William, king | - | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | - | Map |
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