Gauti

Male
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Discussion of the name

Gauti is an Old Norse masculine name, probably derived from an Old Swedish element or byname meaning ‘man from Gautland’; formally, the DB spellings with ‑o‑ could include instances of Gøti, the Old Danish form of the name (von Feilitzen 1937: 66 §37, 258, 274; Fellows Jensen 1968: lxxviii-lxxix, §§46-7, 98, 349).

There are three entries for Gauti in the PASE corpus: Gauti 1 may have been a Suffolk landholder under King Harold II (Harold 3); Gauti 2 is a catch-all category for occurrences of the name in DB; and Gauti 3 was a London moneyer during the 1020s. There are also PASE entries for Goti 1 (a DB catch-all category) and Gouti 1 (a Norfolk witness to a mid-eleventh-century will), which represent variant forms of the name Gauti. The small PASE corpus and the scatter of DB instances of this name suggest that its use in England was extremely rare and confined to the region between Norfolk and the lower Thames, although its use need not imply that the bearer was of foreign rather than insular birth.

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: Couta, Got, Gotius, Gouta, Gouti

Forms in modern scholarship:

 von Feilitzen head forms: Gauti (Gøti, Gøte), Gotius

 Phillimore edition: Got, Goti, Gauti

 Alecto edition: Gøti, Goti

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
Essex 13,1 Hutton Gotius Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold - Gausbert, abbot of Battle - 2.83 5.00 6.00 D Map
Essex 28,1 Ateleia Gotius Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold Harold, earl Hamon the steward Serlo 'of Essex' 1.00 1.00 1.00 B Map
Essex 28,11 Toppesfield Gotius Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold - Hamon the steward - 0.50 7.00 8.00 C Map
Essex 28,11 Stambourne Gotius Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold - Hamon the steward - 0.50 5.00 6.00 C Map
Essex 28,9 Little Wigborough Gotius Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold - Hamon the steward Vitalis 'of Little Wigborough' 8.00 7.00 7.00 C Map
Hertfordshire 17,13 Cockhampstead Gouti Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold Harold, earl Eustace, count - 2.00 7.00 7.00 A Map
Middlesex 8,3 East Bedfont Gouti Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold Harold, earl Robert, count of Mortain - 2.00 1.00 0.25 A Map
Middlesex 8,4 Feltham - Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold Harold, earl Robert, count of Mortain - 7.00 4.67 3.50 C Map
Suffolk 3,56 Nettlestead Gouti Gauti, housecarl of Earl Harold - Alan, count Erland 'Nettlestead' 5.00 7.50 7.50 D Map
Suffolk 7,15 Chediston Couta Gauti 'of Chediston' Eadric of Laxfield Roger Bigod - 0.13 0.10 0.10 A Map
Totals

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

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
Norfolk 65,13 Moulton St Michael Gouta Gouti 'of Moulton' Aski the priest Gauti, king's free man - 0.01 0.01 0.01 - Map
Totals

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
Essex B3a Colchester Got - - William, king Gauti Hugh, burgess 0.05 0.00 0.00 B Map
Essex B3a Colchester Got - - William, king Gauti Chill, burgess 0.01 0.00 0.00 B Map
Essex B3a Colchester Got - - William, king Gauti Fleet, burgess 0.17 0.00 0.00 B Map
Totals