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Sigeweald

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Sigeweald is a masculine OE name formed from the elements sige (‘victory’) and weald (‘power, ruler’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 361). It occurs sporadically throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, being found as the name variously of charter witnesses, priests, and moneyers, with nine persons currently recorded in PASE (Sigewald 1, 3, 4; Sigeweald 1–5; Siwald 1) and another in the Durham Liber Vitae (LVD: II, 148). A Greek bishop at the court of King Edgar in the later 950s or 960s took the name (Sigewald 5), probably because it was the equivalent in meaning to his Greek name Nicephoros (Blake 1962: p. 73 (ii.2); Fairweather 2005: p. 96 and note 20). The cognate ON name, Sigvaldr, seems not to be evidenced in England (e.g. Fellows Jensen 1968).

Bibliography

Blake 1962: Liber Eliensis, ed. E. O. Blake, Camden 3rd series 92 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1962)

DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007)

Fairweather 2005: Liber Elienesis: A History of the Isle of Ely from the Seventh Century to the Twelfth, compiled by a monk of Ely in the twelfth century, trans. Janet Fairweather (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005)

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: Siuuoldus

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Sigeweald

Phillimore edition: Siwold

Alecto edition: Sigeweald

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. 47,12	Vill Dodington	DB Spelling Siuuoldus	Holder 1066 Sigeweald 'of Stowey'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Doda 'of Dodington'	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,117	Vill Levington	DB Spelling Siuuoldus	Holder 1066 Sigeweald 'of Colneis'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant William de Bourneville	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.06	1086 Value 0.06	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,92	Vill Kembroke	DB Spelling Siuuoldus	Holder 1066 Sigeweald 'of Colneis'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.05	1066 Value 0.03	1086 Value 0.03	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value