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Blæcmær

Discussion of the name

Blæcmær was an OE masculine name, from the elements blæc ‘black, dark’ and mær probably ‘fame’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 203). It is not recorded outside DB, though the second element was common in OE personal names and the first occurs in several besides Blæcmær, all of which may well have been coined in the late Anglo-Saxon period.

Phillimore gives the name as Blaecmaer; a typographical error in both print and electronic versions of the Alecto edition makes it Blær.

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Blachemer

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Blæcmær

Phillimore edition: Blaecmaer

Alecto edition: Blær

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 Shropshire	Phil. ref. 6,20	Vill Walford	DB Spelling Blachemer	Holder 1066 Blæcmær 'of Walford'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ralph de Mortimer	1086 Subtenant Ingelran 'of Neen Savage'	Fiscal Value 0.83	1066 Value 0.18	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Blæcmær 2 - Blæcmær ‘of Walford’ (Salop.), fl. 1066