Ceolwine

Male
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Discussion of the name

Ceolwine is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements cēol ‘keel, ship’ and wine ‘friend, protector, lord’; this explanation of the DB form Celeinus is much more likely than indirect derivation from the name Ceolsige (Thorn and Thorn 1979: DB 45,2; contra von Feilitzen 1937: 214).

The only related entry in the PASE corpus is for Celein 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this form in DB.  There are no entries for the name Ceolwine, but there appear to be instances from the Durham Liber Vitae and as a moneyer (DLV: ; Searle 1897: 132-3).

Bibliography

DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007)

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (Cambridge, 1897)

Thorn and Torn 1979: Domesday Book 6: Wiltshire, ed. C. Thorn and F. Thorn (Chichester, 1979)

von Feilitzen  1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Celeinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Celeinus

  Phillimore edition: Ceolwin

  Alecto edition: Celein

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
Wiltshire 45,2 Chippenham Celeinus Ceolwine 'of Chippenham' Eadric the sheriff Roger of Berkeley - 0.88 0.00 0.00 C Map
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