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Land

Discussion of the name

Land is apparently an Old English masculine name originating as a short form of compounds such as Landbeorht with land ‘earth, land, territory’ as first element; however, it is also possible that the two DB forms in Lant could be scribal errors for the name Lanc (von Feilitzen 1937: 308-9).

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

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: Lant

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Lant

  Phillimore edition: Lank

  Alecto edition: Lant

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 Bedfordshire	Phil. ref. 32,6	Vill Wymington	DB Spelling Lant	Holder 1066 Land 'of Wymington'	Lord 1066 Leofnoth son of Osmund	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Walter the Fleming	1086 Subtenant Osbert 'of Totternhoe'	Fiscal Value 3.00	1066 Value 3.00	1086 Value 2.25	Confidence C	Map
Shire Bedfordshire	Phil. ref. 57,7	Vill Wymington	DB Spelling Lant	Holder 1066 Land 'of Wymington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 5 brothers and their mother	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 0.75	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Land 2 - Land ‘of Wymington’ (Beds.), fl. 1066