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Genust

Discussion of the name

Genust can hardly be anything other than a Welsh name, but it is not clear what name the DB spellings Genust and Genut represent. Tentative suggestions have included a name ending in –ust, from Primitive Celtic gustus ‘choice’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 259), and the name Cwnws (Thornton 2007: 152).

It does not otherwise occur among the names recorded in PASE. Phillimore and Alecto both render it Genust.

Bibliography

Thornton 2007: David E. Thornton, ‘Some Welshmen in Domesday Book and beyond: aspects of Anglo-Welsh relations in the eleventh century’, Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2007), 144–64

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: Genust, Genut

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Genust

  Phillimore edition: Genust

  Alecto edition: Genust

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 Shropshire	Phil. ref. 4,21,14	Vill Uffington	DB Spelling Genut	Holder 1066 Genust 'of Uffington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Helgot de Fourches	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence A	Map
Shire Shropshire	Phil. ref. 4,21,6	Vill Holdgate	DB Spelling Genust	Holder 1066 Genust 'of Uffington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Helgot de Fourches	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 0.23	1086 Value 0.31	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Genust 2 - Genust ‘of Uffington’ (Salop.), fl. 1066