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Ceolweald

Discussion of the name

Ceolweald is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements cēol ‘keel, ship’ and weald ‘power, dominion; ruler’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 214).

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Ceolwald [recte Ceolweald] 1, supposedly the grandfather of the West Saxon king Ine 1; Ceolwald [recte Ceolweald] 2, minister and witness to a Somerset charter of 961 (S 692); and Ceolweald 1 [recte Ceolweald 3], a catch-all for occurrences in DB.

Bibliography

S: P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 8 (London, 1968), revised by S. Kelly, R. Rushforth et al., The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters, published online through Kemble: The Anglo-Saxon Charters Website, currently at http://www.esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html

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: Celeolt

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Cēolweald

  Phillimore edition: Ceolwold

  Alecto edition: Ceolweald

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 Suffolk	Phil. ref. 25,64	Vill Shotley	DB Spelling Celeolt	Holder 1066 Ceolweald 'of Shotley'	Lord 1066 Ælfric Cempa	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Roger 'the man of Richard fitzGilbert'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Ceolweald 4 - Ceolweald ‘of Shotley’ (Suff.), fl. 1066