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Eadræd

Discussion of the name

Eadræd is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements ead ‘prosperity, happiness’ and ræd ‘advice, counsel’;  it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between DB spellings for this name and those for Æthelræd because ‘d’ could be used to represent /d/ or /th/.

Although there is only one entry for this form of the name in the PASE corpus (Eadræd 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB) there are 36 entries under the form Eadred, of which Eadred 1-30 (there is no (Unknown Person)) occur between 704-1038 and Eadred 31-37 are moneyers (of whom Eadred 32, a London moneyer active 1046-56, was the latest).  For simplicity, this sequence is maintained here and the DB instances profiled below are numbered from Eadræd 38 onwards.

Bibliography

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: Edred(us)

Spellings in Exon: Edret

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ēadræd

  Phillimore edition: Edred  (Eadræd in Index)

  Alecto edition: Eadræd, Eadred

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 Berkshire	Phil. ref. 1,10	Vill Sparsholt	DB Spelling Edred	Holder 1066 Eadræd the priest, 'of Sparsholt'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Eadræd the priest	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Hertfordshire	Phil. ref. 33,6	Vill Wallington	DB Spelling Edred	Holder 1066 Eadræd 'of Wallington'	Lord 1066 Esgar the staller	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant Siward 'of Wallington'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 8,58	Vill Tunstall	DB Spelling Edredus	Holder 1066 Eadræd 'of Tunstall'	Lord 1066 Wihtgar son of Ælfric	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger the Poitevin	1086 Subtenant Albert Greslet (aka Crematus)	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.48	1086 Value 0.48	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 Berkshire	Phil. ref. 1,10	Vill Sparsholt	DB Spelling Edred	Holder 1066 Eadræd the priest, 'of Sparsholt'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Eadræd the priest	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Eadræd 38 - Eadræd ‘of Bishopstrow’ (Wilts.), fl. 1066
• Eadræd 39 - Eadræd ‘of Marston’ (Som.), fl. 1066
• Eadræd 40 - Eadræd ‘of Plainsfield’ (Som.), fl. 1066
• Eadræd 41 - Eadræd ‘of Wallington’ (Herts.), fl. 1066
• Eadræd 42 - Eadræd ‘of Tunstall’ (Suff.), fl. 1066
• Eadræd 43 - Eadræd priest ‘of Sparsholt’ (Berks.), fl. 1066x1086