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Anna

Discussion of the name

Anna is an Old English masculine name of uncertain derivation (cf. Redin 1919: 60, 72).

There are six entries in the PASE corpus, of whom Anna 1 was a seventh-century king, Anna 2-3 were eleventh-century ecclesiastics, Anna 4 is a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB, and Anna 5-6 were moneyers at an unspecified mint in the mid-tenth century.

Bibliography

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

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Anne

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Anna

  Phillimore edition: Anna

  Alecto edition: Anna

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 Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 42,3	Vill Siston	DB Spelling Anne	Holder 1066 Anna 'of Siston'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger of Berkeley	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Anna 7 - Anna ‘of Siston’ (Glos.), fl. 1066