Tidwulf

Male
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Discussion of the name

Tidwulf is a masculine OE name formed from the elements tīd (‘time’) and wulf (‘wolf’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 384). The name was reasonably common in the ninth century, with seven examples in the Durham Liber Vitae (DLV: II, 152), two or three witnesses of Mercian charters (Tidwulf 1–3), and one or more moneyers at York (Tidwulf 6–7). From the later ninth century it evidently descended in social status, and the only Tidwulfs documented between the late ninth century and 1066 were both slaves (Tidwulf 4 and Tiddulf 1 %% Tidwulf 8). The element tīd itself fell out of general use among the landed classes along roughly the same chronology (Searle 1897: 451–3), and is not found in any other TRE landowner’s name apart from Tidwulf 9.

Bibliography

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)

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the Time of Beda to that of King John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1897)

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: Tidulf

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Tīdwulf

  Phillimore edition: Tidwulf

  Alecto edition: Tidwulf

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
Somerset 5,28 Havyatt Tidulf Tidwulf 'of Havyatt' - Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances Brungar the Englishman 1.50 1.00 1.00 A Map
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