PASE

Table of Contents

Top of page Discussion Bibliography Forms Distribution Map Property List People of this Name Bottom of page

Patta

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Von Feilitzen treated the DB forms Pat (occurring once in Ches. and once in Suff.), Pata (once in Staffs.), and Padda (once in Suff.) as three distinct names, all of them presenting difficulties in establishing a clear origin (von Feilitzen 1937: 343). Most of the difficulties disappear once it is realized that in Suffolk Padda and Pat are more likely than not to be the same person, and once better use is made of the fact (as von Feilitzen knew) that pætta appears independently as an eleventh-century byname.

The name Padda existed in the seventh century, as one of the priests who converted the South Saxons (PASE: Padda 1; Bede, HE, iv.13), but it may have been coined afresh in the late Anglo-Saxon period as a nickname meaning ‘toad’ or ‘frog’ (OE padde or pade or ON padda).

The name Patta, if indeed it was the same as the byname of Wulfmær Pætta recorded in the Winchester Liber Vitae c. 1030, may have meant ‘fleshy or plump’, though a Scandinavian word with the same root developed the meaning ‘small child’ (Tengvik 1938: 324).

Bibliography

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

Tengvik 1938: Gösta Tengvik, Old English Bynames, Nomina Germanica 4 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells,1938)

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:

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms:

Phillimore edition:

Alecto edition:

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 27,2	Vill Sinderland	DB Spelling Pat	Holder 1066 Patta 'of Sinderland'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Gilbert de Venables	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.04	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Shire Staffordshire	Phil. ref. 13,5	Vill Hanchurch	DB Spelling Pata	Holder 1066 Patta 'Hanchurch'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard the forester	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.38	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value