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Sotmann

Discussion of the name

Sotmann is an Old English masculine name of uncertain derivation.  The second element is mann ‘person, man’ but the first could be either OE sōt ‘soot’ or else an OE sōt or sott ‘foolish, dull’ borrowed from Old French or Latin; in either case the name may have originated as a byname (von Feilitzen 1937: 369; Tengvik 1938: 335).

The only entry in the PASE corpus is for Sotmann 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB.

Bibliography

Tengvik 1938: G. Tengvik, Old English Bynames (Uppsala, 1938)

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Soteman

Spellings in Exon: Sotemanus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sotmann

  Phillimore edition: Sotman

  Alecto edition: Sotmann

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 25,18	Vill Loteland	DB Spelling Soteman	Holder 1066 Sotmann 'of Loteland'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Goscelm of Exeter	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Sotmann 2 - Sotmann ‘of Loteland’ (Devon), fl. 1066