Maban

Male
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Discussion of the name

DB’s Maban is evidently identical with the name otherwise recorded only once in Anglo-Saxon England, in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, as the name of a ‘famous singer’ summoned by Bishop Acca of Hexham (Acca 3) to teach church music in the Gregorian tradition (Bede, HE, v.20). Bede must have known Maban 1 personally and is likely to have spelled his name correctly, so it is striking that the one instance of the name in DB has the same spelling, adopted here as the normal form. The name is evidently the same as the Welsh name Mabon, a derivative of OW mab (‘son’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 323), which was current in Wales both in the sixth century and the later eleventh (Bartrum 1974: V, 74, 147).

Bibliography

Bartrum 1974: Welsh Genealogies, A.D. 300–1400, comp. Peter Clement Bartrum, 8 vols (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1974)

Bede, HE: Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)

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: Maban

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Maban

  Phillimore edition: Maban

  Alecto edition: Maban

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
Yorkshire 9W18 Snitertun Maban Maban 'of Snitertun' - Ilbert de Lacy - 2.00 0.75 0.00 A Map
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