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Sibbi

Discussion of the name

Sibbi is a masculine name of Danish origin, the short form of ODan Sigbjorn (von Feilitzen 1937: 358; Fellows Jensen 1968: 230). It does not seem to have been widely used in England, and no examples of it before the time of DB have yet been recorded. Its absence from the minor place-names and later personal nomenclature of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire suggests that it did not reach England during the Viking settlement period but was first used in the eleventh century by settlers under Cnut.

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: Sibe, Sibi, Sybi

Spellings in Exon: Sib(us)

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sibbi

  Phillimore edition: Sibbi

  Alecto edition: Sibbi

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 23,31	Vill Bradwell	DB Spelling Sibi	Holder 1066 Sibbi 'of Bradwell'	Lord 1066 Alric son of Goding	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Miles Crispin	1086 Subtenant William fitzTurold	Fiscal Value 1.37	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Lincolnshire	Phil. ref. C23	Vill Lincoln	DB Spelling Sybi	Holder 1066 Sibbi 'of Lincoln'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Alfred nephew of Turold	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 5,15	Vill Timsbury	DB Spelling Sibe	Holder 1066 Sibbi 'of Timsbury'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances	1086 Subtenant William de Monceaux	Fiscal Value 2.00	1066 Value 0.70	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Sibbi 2 - Sibbi ‘of Lincoln’, fl. 1066
• Sibbi 3 - Sibbi ‘of Timsbury’ (Som.), fl. 1066
• Sibbi 4 - Sibbi ‘of Bradwell’ (Bucks.), fl. 1066
• Sibbi 5 - Sibbi father of Sigeræd (d. by 1066)