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Winge

Discussion of the name

Winge is probably an Old Danish masculine name vinge related to Old Norse vǽngr ‘wing’ that occurs as a byname elsewhere (Björkman 1910: 175; Redin 1919: 128; von Feilitzen 1937: 416).

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

Björkman 1910: Erik Björkman, Nordische Personennamen in England in alt- und frühmittel-englischer Zeit, Studien zur englischen Philologie 37 (Halle an der Saale, 1910; reprinted Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1973)

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: Winge

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Winge

  Phillimore edition: Winge

  Alecto edition: Winge

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. 60,1	Vill Horndon	DB Spelling Winge	Holder 1066 Winge 'of Horndon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh de Saint-Quentin	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Essex	Phil. ref. 90,1	Vill Horndon	DB Spelling -	Holder 1066 Winge 'of Horndon'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Godwine Gudhen	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Winge 2 - Winge ‘of Horndon’ (Essex), fl. 1066