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Altei

Discussion of the name

Altei is the DB form of an as-yet unidentified name.  The three mostly likely explanations are that it is a misspelling (with ‘t’ for ‘f’) of the very common Old English masculine name Ælfheah (von Feilitzen 1937: 153), or that it represents an otherwise unrecorded OE name *Ealdheah, or that it should be associated with the equally obscure DB form Altet occurring once in Kent.  No certainty is possible, however, and therefore the DB form Altei is retained as the head-form here.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Altei 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB; there are also 68 entries for Ælfheah, none for *Ealdheah and one for the DB form Altet.

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: Altei

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Altei

  Phillimore edition: Altei

  Alecto edition: Altei

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. 23,6	Vill Old Basing	DB Spelling Altei	Holder 1066 Altei 'of Basing'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh de Port	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 11.00	1066 Value 12.00	1086 Value 16.00	Confidence Z	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Altei 2 - Altei ‘of Basing’ (Hants), fl. 1066