Trumwine

Male
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Discussion of the name

Trumwine is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements trum ‘firm, strong, vigorous, trustworthy’ and wine ‘friend, protector, lord’. 

The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Trumwine 1, who in the late seventh century served briefly as bishop to the Picts (Bede: HE iv 12, iv 26), and for Trumwine 2, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB, although von Feilitzen (1937: 388) notes an instance from Norfolk in c.1089; nonetheless, the name was clearly extremely rare.

Bibliography

Bede, HE: Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969)

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: Trumuinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Trumwine

  Phillimore edition:

  Alecto edition: Trumwine

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
Suffolk 30,1 Ringshall Trumuinus Trumwine 'of Tattingstone' Edward, king William brother of Roger d'Auberville - 0.15 0.15 0.15 C
Suffolk 36,9 Tattingstone Trumuinus Trumwine 'of Tattingstone' - Robert Gernon - 0.50 0.25 0.20 B
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