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Ealdbeorht

Discussion of the name

Ealdbeorht is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements eald ‘old, experienced, honoured’ and beorht ‘bright, distinguished, pure’.

Although there is only one entry under Ealdbeorht in the PASE corpus (Ealdbeorht 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB) there are 21 entries under the spelling Ealdberht (all pre-dating c.900) together with 2 under Aldberht (both continental and pre-dating c.800).  This suggests that the once-common name had become very much less popular among the landed elite of the later Anglo-Saxon period.

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: Aldebertus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Ealdbeorht

  Phillimore edition: Aldbert

  Alecto edition: Ealdbeorht

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 Dorset	Phil. ref. 26,64	Vill Catherston Leweston	DB Spelling Aldebertus	Holder 1066 Ealdbeorht 'of Cerne'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant William de Lestre	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Ealdbeorht 23 - Ealdbeorht ‘of Cerne’ (Dors.), fl. 1066