Toiswald

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Discussion of the name

The name Toiswald is of unknown derivation. It occurs in Domesday Book in the form Toisuuald and in Exon (224a3) as Toiswaldus. Von Feilitzen (1937: 95, 387) followed a misreading of the Exon form as Torsuualdus, which led him to propose that the underlying name was Old English Torhtweald and that the DB form was an error. However, the Exon form quite clearly has -i- rather than -r-; it also looks as though the scribe originally wrote an -h- before writing the -d- closer to correct the spelling to -ld-. Because of these uncertainties, Toiswald is adopted as the head-form here. It is normalized as Tortwald in the Phillimore edition and as Torhtweald in the Alecto edition.

The only related entry in the PASE corpus is Torhtweald 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of that name in DB; to avoid further confusion, however, the profile given below is therefore named as Toiswald 2.

Bibliography

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

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Toisuuald

Spellings in Exon: Toiswaldus

Forms in modern scholarship: Torhtweald

  von Feilitzen head forms:

  Phillimore edition: Tortwald

  Alecto edition: Torhtweald

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
Cornwall 5,4,1 Trelan Toisuuald Toiswald 'of Trelan' - Robert, count of Mortain Thurstan the sheriff 1.00 1.50 1.25 A Map
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