Top of page Discussion Bibliography Forms Distribution Map Property List People of this Name Bottom of page

Sweting

Discussion of the name

Sweting is an Old English masculine name comprising the element swēte ‘sweet’, evidenced elsewhere in use as a personal name Swēt(a), compounded with an -ing suffix; confusion with the Old Danish name Swærting or with Old Norse Svertingr is theoretically possible but no certain instances of this have been found (Redin 1919: 15, 54, 169).

There are six entries in the PASE corpus, of which Sweting 1 is a catch-all for occurrences in DB and Sweting 2-6 were moneyers active at Colchester, London and Lincoln between 991 and 1040.

Bibliography

Redin 1919: Studies on Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala: A.-B. Akademska Bokhandeln, 1919)

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: Sueting(us), Suetinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Swēting

  Phillimore edition: Sweeting, Sweting

  Alecto edition: Sweeting, Sweting

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 22,2	Vill Tilbury	DB Spelling Suetingus	Holder 1066 Sweting 'of Tilbury'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Warenne	1086 Subtenant Ranulph 'the man of William de Warenne'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.35	1086 Value 0.70	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,98	Vill Falkenham	DB Spelling Suetingus	Holder 1066 Sweting 'of Falkenham'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.06	1066 Value 0.06	1086 Value 0.06	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Bedfordshire	Phil. ref. 53,25	Vill Sutton	DB Spelling Suetingus	Holder 1066 Edward 'of Sutton'	Lord 1066 Ecgfrith, abbot of St Albans	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Judith, countess	1086 Subtenant Sweting 'of Sutton'	Fiscal Value 0.19	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence -	Map
Shire Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 33,1	Vill Southcote	DB Spelling Suetinus	Holder 1066 Wulfric 'of Southcote'	Lord 1066 Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzConstantine	1086 Subtenant Sweting 'of Southcote'	Fiscal Value 0.30	1066 Value 0.30	1086 Value 0.30	Confidence E	Map
Shire Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. 9,8	Vill Garsington	DB Spelling Sueting	Holder 1066 Ordric, abbot of Abingdon	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Reynold, abbot of Abingdon	1086 Subtenant Sweting 'of Garsington'	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Sweting 7 - Sweting ‘of Tilbury’ (Essex), fl. 1066
• Sweting 8 - Sweting ‘of Falkenham’ (Suff.), fl. 1066
• Sweting 9 - Sweting ‘of Garsington’ (Oxon), fl. 1086
• Sweting 10 - Sweting ‘of Southcote’ (Bucks.), fl. 1086
• Sweting 11 - Sweting ‘of Sutton’ (Beds.), fl. 1086