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Fridebert

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Fridebert is a Continental Germanic masculine name comprising the elements fridu ‘peace’ and beraht ‘light, bright’, although linguistic or scribal ambiguities mean that some forms for Fridebert and Fridebern are confused in DB; it is also formally possible but unlikely that some forms represent the Old English name Frithubeorht, not apparently otherwise recorded after the early tenth century (von Feiltizen 1937: 254; Dodgson 1985: 43).

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Fridebert 1, a catch-all for occurrences in DB.

Bibliography

Dodgson 1985: J. McN. Dodgson, ‘Some Domesday personal-names, mainly post-Conquest’, Nomina 9 (1985), 41-51

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: Frebertus, Fridebertus, Friebernus, Friebertus

Spellings in ICC: Fredebertus

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Fridebert (and Fridebern)

Phillimore edition: Fridbert, Fridebert (and Fridebern)

Alecto edition: Fridebert (and Fridebern)

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. 4,20	Vill Hanechedene	DB Spelling Fridebertus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Hanechedene'	Lord 1066 Leofwine, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Tedald	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 3.33	1086 Value 4.17	Confidence C	Map
Shire Cambridgeshire	Phil. ref. 32,5	Vill Harston	DB Spelling Fridebertus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Harston'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Picot of Cambridge	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 1.60	Confidence B	Map
Shire Cambridgeshire	Phil. ref. 5,24	Vill Harston	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Harston'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Simeon, abbot of Ely	1086 Subtenant Picot of Cambridge	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 1,22	Vill Margaretting	DB Spelling Friebertus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Ockendon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 3.50	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 18,36	Vill Hanningfield	DB Spelling Friebertus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Ockendon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Odo, bishop of Bayeux	1086 Subtenant Ralph fitzTurold	Fiscal Value 9.00	1066 Value 5.00	1086 Value 7.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 30,4	Vill Ockendon	DB Spelling Frebertus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Ockendon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant Turold 'the man of Geoffrey de Mandeville'	Fiscal Value 10.67	1066 Value 7.00	1086 Value 16.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 30,44	Vill Stow Maries	DB Spelling Friebernus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Ockendon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant Hugh de Verly	Fiscal Value 4.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence E	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 30,50	Vill Stow Maries	DB Spelling Friebernus	Holder 1066 Fridebert 'of Ockendon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey de Mandeville	1086 Subtenant Hugh de Verly	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value