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Dufe

Discussion of the name

Dufe is a feminine name derived from either Old English *dūfe ‘dove’ or one of its Scandinavian cognates, perhaps developing from a byname (von Feilitzen 1937: 227; Fellows Jensen 1968: 73).

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Dufe 1, a late tenth- or early eleventh-century slave in Hertfordshire, and Dufe 2, a catch-all for occurrences of this name in DB.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

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: Duua

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Dūfe

  Phillimore edition: Dove

  Alecto edition: Dufa

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. 22,5	Vill Great Easton	DB Spelling Duua	Holder 1066 Dufe 'of Easton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Warenne	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 90,57	Vill Toppesfield	DB Spelling Duua	Holder 1066 Dufe 'of Easton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Germund de Villers	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Dufe 3 - Dufe ‘of Easton’ (Essex), fl. 1066