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Holdwin

Discussion of the name

Hold is an Old English masculine name derived either as a borrowing of Old Norse holdr ‘nobleman ranking below a jarl, holder of allodial land’ or from native OE hold ‘gracious, friendly, faithful’; the ON word occurs as a titular byname (von Feilitzen 1937: 291; Tengvik 1938: 254; Smith 1956: i 258).

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

Bibliography

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

Tengvik 1938: Gösta Tengvik, Old English Bynames, Nomina Germanica 4 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1938)

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: Holt

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Hold

  Phillimore edition: Hold

  Alecto edition: Hold

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Subtenant in 1086

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. 21,11	Vill Assecote	DB Spelling Elduinus	Holder 1066 Almær 'of Assecote'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Poilley	1086 Subtenant Holdwin 'of Assecote'	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.13	1086 Value 0.13	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Holdwin 1 - Holdwin 'of Assecote', fl. 1086