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Leofa

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Leofa is a masculine Old English name consisting of the single element lēof (‘dear’) in its weak form (with an ending in –a). The equivalent strong form, Leof, is regarded as ‘not evidenced with certainty’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 310). The corresponding female name Leofe is on record in 1086 and later (Douglas 1932: 33; DLV: II, 179), and von Feilitzen noted that it might be represented in DB Huntingdonshire by the spelling Leue here assigned to Leofa 13.

Leofa was reasonably common before the generation represented in DB, especially among moneyers of the earlier eleventh century.

Bibliography

DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007)

Douglas 1932: Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas, Records of the Social and Economic History of England and Wales. vol. 8. (London: Oxford University Press, 1932)

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: Leue, Liofus

Spellings in Exon: Liouus

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Lēofa

Phillimore edition: Leofa

Alecto edition: Leofa

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 Huntingdonshire	Phil. ref. 23,1	Vill Waresley	DB Spelling Leue	Holder 1066 Leofa 'of Waresley'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzAnsculf	1086 Subtenant Ranulph brother of Ilger	Fiscal Value 1.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.25	Confidence A	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 16,8	Vill Beere	DB Spelling Liofus	Holder 1066 Leofa, king's clerk of Beere	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Leofa, king's clerk	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 16,8	Vill Beere	DB Spelling Liofus	Holder 1066 Leofa, king's clerk of Beere	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Leofa, king's clerk	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Hampshire	Phil. ref. IoW8,9	Vill Shalfleet	DB Spelling Liofus	Holder 1066 Eadric 'of Shalfleet'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Jocelin fitzAzor	1086 Subtenant Leofa	Fiscal Value 1.92	1066 Value 6.40	1086 Value 4.80	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value