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Gethne

Discussion of the name

Gethne can hardly be other than Welsh, and may represent the name which appears in other early medieval sources spelled Guithno, Gueithgno, and Guitneu; the second element is the personal name suffix –(g)nou ‘son’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 260, 329).

There is no other person of this name recorded in PASE; Phillimore and Alecto both use the Domesday spelling Gethne.

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: Gethne

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Gethne

  Phillimore edition: Gethne

  Alecto edition: Gethne

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. 4,21,11	Vill Bosle	DB Spelling Gethne	Holder 1066 Gethne 'of Bosle'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger, earl	1086 Subtenant Helgot de Fourches	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.80	1086 Value 0.80	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Gethne 2 - Gethne ‘of Bosle’ (Salap.), fl. 1066