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Deorwulf

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Deorwulf is an Old English masculine name comprising either dēor ‘brave, bold, ferocious’ or dēore ‘beloved, valuable, noble’ as first element compounded with wulf ‘wolf’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 223; Insley 2003: 377).

There are 17 entries for Deorwulf in the PASE corpus, of whom Deorwulf 1-3 are from the ninth century, Deorwulf 4 from the late tenth, Deorwulf 5 is a catch-all for occurrences in DB and Deorwulf 6-17 are moneyers active at various mints between 852-1017; to these can be added the Deorulf occurring in the tenth-century ‘Hatfield list’ (Pelteret 1986: 473). The name can therefore be regarded as unusual in frequency, and perhaps more so by the mid-eleventh century than previously.

Bibliography

Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23 (Berlin and New York, 2003), 367-96

Pelteret 1990: David A. E. Pelteret, Catalogue of English Post-Conquest Vernacular Documents (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1990)

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: Derolfus, DeRolfus, Derulfus

Spellings in IE: Deorulf, Derulf

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Dēorwulf

Phillimore edition: Derwulf

Alecto edition: Deorwulf

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 90,60	Vill Alphamstone	DB Spelling Derolfus	Holder 1066 Deorwulf 'of Alphamstone'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Deorwulf	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.08	1086 Value 0.11	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 21,39	Vill Wetheringsett	DB Spelling DeRolfus	Holder 1066 Deorwulf 'of Aspall'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Simeon, abbot of Ely	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.08	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.13	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 77,4	Vill Aspall	DB Spelling Derulfus	Holder 1066 Deorwulf 'of Aspall'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.18	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 90,60	Vill Alphamstone	DB Spelling Derolfus	Holder 1066 Deorwulf 'of Alphamstone'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Deorwulf	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.08	1086 Value 0.11	Confidence D	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value