Hadwig

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Discussion of the name

The Old English masculine name Hadwig is poorly recorded, the small number of instances in DB providing significant evidence that it did exist. The relevant DB forms are Haduuinus, Haduic (probably the same person, Hadwig 2), Hadeuuinus, and Hadeuui. A moneyer’s name at Hereford from the reign of William I, Haþewi, has also to be taken into account. The spellings have hitherto been regarded as standing for Continental Germanic names, Hadwin (for the spellings in –uuinus) and Hathuwic, Hadewic, or Hadwig (for Haduic and Hadeuui) (von Feilitzen 1937: 282).

Both elements of the OE name present problems. The second element wīg, ‘war, valour’, was often enough represented in DB by the spelling –uinus, –uuinus (von Feilitzen 1937: 125). The reverse happens, too, that is, spellings in –ui, –uui can stand for –wine. But Haduic can only stand for Hadwig, not Hadwine (von Feilitzen 1937: 117). Hadwig therefore has to be the name of the person here designated Hadwig 2, and was probably the name of Hadwig 3, but Hadwig 4 (fl. 1086) might in reality have been called Hadwine and is here normalized as Hadwig simply for convenience.

OE names in Heaðu– had evidently passed out of general use by the eleventh century (von Feilitzen 1937: 288) but had given rise to the short form Hadda (Redin 1919: 66), reinforced as a name by the arrival and then the Anglicization of the ON byname Haddr or Haddi (Ekwall 1960: 209; Fellows Jensen 1968: 121). Those processes made Had– available for use as a name-forming element in its own right in the later Anglo-Saxon period, though it was not adopted widely, as the geographical concentration of the Hadwigs and the moneyer Haþewig suggests.

Bibliography

Ekwall 1960: Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names, 4th edn (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1960)

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

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: Hadeuui, Hadeuuinus, Haduic, Haduuinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Haduic, Haduuinus

  Phillimore edition: Hadwic (Haduic, Hadeuui), Hadwin (Hadeuuinus, Haduuinus)

  Alecto edition: Haduic (Haduic, Hadeuui), Hadewin (Hadeuuinus), Hadwin (Haduuinus)

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
Herefordshire 10,62 Wormsley Haduic Hadwig 'of Chadnor' - Roger de Lacy - 0.25 0.10 0.15 C Map
Herefordshire 15,2 Ruardean Hadeuui Hadwig 'of Ruardean' - William fitzBaderon Salomon 'of Ruardean' 4.00 1.50 1.50 B Map
Herefordshire 8,5 Chadnor Haduuinus Hadwig 'of Chadnor' - Ralph de Tosny - 1.11 1.50 1.83 C Map
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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
Gloucestershire G4 Gloucester Hadeuuinus - Edward, king William, king Hadwig 0.00 0.00 0.00 B Map
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