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Manni

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Manni is an Old Danish masculine name originally developed as a byname from man ‘man’; there is occasional confusion with the name Magni (von Feilitzen 1937: 324; Fellows Jensen 1968: 194-5).

There are only three entries in the PASE corpus for Manni, of which Manni 1 was abbot of Evesham between 1044 and 1058, Manni 2 represents one or more people occurring as witnesses in three charters between 1044 and c.1053 (on which see Manni 4 below), and Manni 3 is a catch-all for occurrences in DB; it is also possible that some of the moneyers recorded under Manning in PASE actually represent Manni. Even so, it is clear that the name was extremely rare in England.

Bibliography

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

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: Magno, Manni(us), Mannig, Mannio, Mannis, Manno

Spellings in Exon: Mannius

Spellings in FBB: Manne

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Magni, Manni

Phillimore edition: Magnus, Manni

Alecto edition: Magni, Manni

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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 25,22	Vill Oaktrow	DB Spelling Manno	Holder 1066 Manni 'of Oaktrow'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Moyon	1086 Subtenant Durand the man of William de Moyon	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 0.20	1086 Value 0.30	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,1	Vill Cowlinge	DB Spelling Mannius	Holder 1066 Manni Swart	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 9.00	1066 Value 9.00	1086 Value 20.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,3	Vill Bramfield	DB Spelling Mannius	Holder 1066 Manni Swart	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 7.00	1066 Value 3.88	1086 Value 7.61	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 44,3	Vill Mells	DB Spelling Mannig	Holder 1066 Manni Swart	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert de Tosny	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 44,4	Vill Yoxford	DB Spelling Mannig	Holder 1066 Manni Swart	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert de Tosny	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 3.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Surrey	Phil. ref. 29,2	Vill Chessington	DB Spelling Magno	Holder 1066 Manni Swart	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Miles Crispin	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 5.00	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 3.50	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Lord 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 Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,4	Vill Walpole	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 7 free men	Lord 1066 Manni	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant 17 free men	Fiscal Value 4.75	1066 Value 2.64	1086 Value 5.16	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,5	Vill Thorington and Wenhaston	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 6 free men	Lord 1066 Manni	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 1.39	1086 Value 2.72	Confidence D	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,6	Vill Middleton	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 1 free man	Lord 1066 Manni	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.10	1066 Value 0.06	1086 Value 0.11	Confidence D	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 3,7	Vill Darsham	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 1 free man	Lord 1066 Manni	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.07	1066 Value 0.04	1086 Value 0.07	Confidence D	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,19	Vill Blucamp Ali	DB Spelling Mannio	Holder 1066 Ali the man of Manni	Lord 1066 Manni, antecessor of Robert de Tosny	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Robert de Vaux	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.75	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,54	Vill Blundeston	DB Spelling Mannis	Holder 1066 Ali the man of Manni	Lord 1066 Manni	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Robert de Vaux	Fiscal Value 0.38	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value