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Yric

Gender: Male

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Yric is most probably an Old English form of the Old Norse masculine name Øyríkr, Eyríkr, but easily confused with ON Eiríkr, which is usually Anglicized as Erik (von Feilitzen 1937: 299-300; cf. Fellows Jensen 1968: 76).

The only occurrence of the name Yric in the PASE corpus is Yric 1, a noble from the early eleventh century; there are, however, entries for Erik 1, a catch-all category for those appearing in DB, and five entries for the name Eric. The corpus in PASE and DB is too small to allow comment on the distribution of the name Yric.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: G. Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen, 1968)

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

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Iric(us)

Spellings in Exon (terrae occupatae): Irich

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Iric, Yric

Phillimore edition: Eric, Yric

Alecto edition: Erik, Iric

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 15,14	Vill Bulkworthy	DB Spelling Iric	Holder 1066 Yric 'of Bulkworthy'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Robert, count of Mortain	1086 Subtenant Ansger the Breton	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 21,22	Vill Hemingstone	DB Spelling Iricus	Holder 1066 Yric 'of Ashbocking'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Simeon, abbot of Ely	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.13	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.13	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 25,59	Vill Ashbocking	DB Spelling Iricus	Holder 1066 Yric 'of Ashbocking'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant Osbern de Wanchy	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence B	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 4,4	Vill Winston	DB Spelling Iricus	Holder 1066 Yric 'of Ashbocking'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Hugh fitzNorman	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.38	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value