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Hunding

Discussion of the name

Von Feilitzen classified the name as being of ON origin and discussed it under the standardized ON form Hundingr. By the eleventh century the name had evidently been assimiliated with the many OE personal names in –ing, a process made easier by the fact that the first element, hund, ‘dog, hound’, was a meaningful word in OE.

In DB the name was spelled in four different ways: Hunding and Hundin (the latter a French-speaker’s sound-substitution: von Feilitzen 1937: 87 §81) in Cheshire; Hundinc and the miscopied Hundic (a common sound-substitution in both OE and French) in Derbyshire and Yorkshire. 

Alecto uses the form Hundingr; Phillimore has both Hunding (Ches. and Derb.) and Hundingr (Yorks.).

The name does not otherwise occur in PASE.

Bibliography

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: Hundin, Hundic, Hundinc, 3 filii Hundinc, Hunding

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Hundingr

  Phillimore edition: Hunding (Ches. and Derb.) and Hundingr (Yorks.)

  Alecto edition: Hundingr

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 Cheshire	Phil. ref. 2,30	Vill Butley	DB Spelling Hundin	Holder 1066 Hunding ‘of Butley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Robert fitzHugh	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence -	Map
Shire Cheshire	Phil. ref. 24,4	Vill Winnington	DB Spelling Hunding	Holder 1066 Hunding ‘of Butley’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant Osbern fitzTezzo	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.10	1086 Value 0.10	Confidence -	Map
Shire Derbyshire	Phil. ref. 7,7	Vill Castleton	DB Spelling Hundinc	Holder 1066 Hunding ‘of Castleton’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William Peverel	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.25	Confidence -	Map
Shire Yorkshire	Phil. ref. 1E56	Vill Raisthorpe	DB Spelling Hundic	Holder 1066 Hunding ‘of Great Houghton’	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Hunding 2 - Hunding ‘of Butley’ (Ches.), fl. 1066
• Hunding 3 - Hunding ‘of Castleton’ (Derb.), fl. 1066
• Hunding 4 - Hunding ‘of Great Houghton’ (Yorks. WR), fl. 1066
• Hunding 5 - Hunding ‘of Raisthorpe’ (Yorks. ER), fl. 1066