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Withi

Discussion of the name

Withi is an Old Danish masculine name, possibly a weak form of a byname corresponding to Old Norse viðr ‘tree, wood’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 407; Smith 1956: ii 232; Fellows Jensen 1968: 333).

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

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Smith 1956: A. H. Smith, English Place-Name Elements, 2 vols (Cambridge, 1956), ii, p. 232.

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: Widius

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Viði

  Phillimore edition: Withi

  Alecto edition: Vithi

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. 28,8	Vill Roding Marci	DB Spelling Widius	Holder 1066 Withi 'of Roding'	Lord 1066 Harold, earl	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hamon the steward	1086 Subtenant Serlo 'of Essex'	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 4.00	1086 Value 5.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Withi 2 - Withi ‘of Roding’ (Essex), fl. 1066