Sigketil

Male
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Discussion of the name

The DB spellings Sichet and Sighet evidently represent the masculine Scandinavian name Sigketil or its short form Sigkil, formed from the elements sigr (‘victory’) and ketill (‘helmet’). In Scandinavia the name is recorded only in a runic inscription from Sweden (von Feilitzen 1937: 363; Fellows Jensen 1968: 233), but there is no reason why it could not have been coined in a Scandinavian-influenced region of England from two exceptionally common name-forming elements. There is no other record of it in English sources apart from DB.

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: Sichet, Sighet

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sighet

  Phillimore edition: Sigketill

  Alecto edition: Sighet

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
Lincolnshire 28,11 Harpswell Sichet Sigketil brother of Agemund - Jocelin fitzLambert - 0.63 0.11 0.75 A Map
Lincolnshire 28,12 Hackthorn Sighet Sigketil brother of Agemund - Jocelin fitzLambert - 1.06 1.34 1.79 A Map
Totals

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
Lincolnshire 28,13 Hackthorn - - Sigketil Jocelin fitzLambert - 0.13 0.00 0.00 A Map
Totals