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Eadstan

Discussion of the name

Eadstan is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements ēad ‘prosperity, happiness’ and stān ‘stone, rock, gem’.  The ambiguous DB forms Æstanus and Estan(us) can represent either Eadstan or Æthelstan (such forms are profiled under the head-form *Æstan unless other evidence points to identifying them as Eadstan or Æthelstan), and the potential for scribal substitution or misreading of ‘d’ for ‘ð’ must also be allowed for (von Feilitzen 1937: 98, 101-3, 182, 188, 237).

There are 23 entries in the PASE corpus for Eadstan, all occurring from c.840 onwards and with Eadstan 13 being a catch-all for occurrences in DB and Eadstan 14-23 being moneyers; in addition, Æstan 1 in the PASE corpus is probably to be identified with Eadstan 24 below.

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: Edestanus, Edstan, Estanus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ēadstān, Æstanus

  Phillimore edition: Edstan, Estan

  Alecto edition: Eadstan, Æstan

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 17,22	Vill Tyringham	DB Spelling Estanus	Holder 1066 Eadstan 'of Chicheley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Acard 'the man of William fitzAnsculf'	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 2.21	1086 Value 1.66	Confidence C	Map
Shire Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 17,25	Vill Chicheley	DB Spelling Edestanus	Holder 1066 Eadstan 'of Chicheley'	Lord 1066 Æthelnoth Cild	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Andrew 'of Chicheley'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. C24	Vill Lincoln	DB Spelling Edstan	Holder 1066 Eadstan 'of Lincoln'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Simeon, abbot of Ely	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence D	Map
Shire Norfolk	Phil. ref. 1,61	Vill Norwich	DB Spelling Edstan	Holder 1066 Eadstan 'of Norwich'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Roger Bigod	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Eadstan 24 - Eadstan ‘of Chicheley’ (Bucks.), fl. c.1010-1066
• Eadstan 25 - Eadstan ‘of Norwich’ (Norf.), fl. 1066
• Eadstan 26 - Eadstan ‘of Lincoln’ (Lincs.), fl. 1066