Rauelin

Male
DWP
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Discussion of the name

Rauelin is the DB form of an uncertain name, although it seems to be masculine and was not Old English.  The first element resembles spellings for Old Norse hrafn ‘raven’, with the loss of final ‘n’ evidenced in other DB forms; but more likely is a diminutive based on the cognate Continental Germanic word hraben or on the Old French name Rabel (Björkman 1910: 109-10; Forssner 1916: 205; von Feilitzen 1937: 347).

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

Björkman 1910: Erik Björkman, Nordische Personennamen in England in alt- und frühmittel-englischer Zeit, Studien zur englischen Philologie 37 (Halle an der Saale, 1910; reprinted Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1973)

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

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: Rauelin

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Rauelin

  Phillimore edition: Rauelin

  Alecto edition: Rauelin

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
Hampshire 69,42 Kingsclere Rauelin Rauelin 'of Kingsclere' - Ravelin, king's thegn - 3.13 3.25 3.25 B Map
Totals

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
Hampshire 69,42 Kingsclere Rauelin Rauelin 'of Kingsclere' - Ravelin, king's thegn - 3.13 3.25 3.25 B Map
Totals