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Beorhtmann
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Discussion of the name
Beorhtmann is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements beorht ‘bright, distinguished, pure’ and mann ‘person, man’, formed either as an original compound or else as a hypocoristic form of a name in Beorht- (von Feilitzen 1937: 194; cf. Insley 2003: 379).The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Beorhtmann 1, a cniht of the abbot of Ramsey who occurs c.1055 (S 1481a), and Beorhtmann 2, a catch-all for occurrences in DB.
Bibliography
Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23 (Berlin and New York, 2003), pp. 367-96S: P. H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks 8 (London, 1968), revised by S. Kelly, R. Rushforth et al., The Electronic Sawyer: Online Catalogue of Anglo-Saxon Charters, published online through Kemble: The Anglo-Saxon Charters Website, currently at http://www.esawyer.org.uk/about/index.html
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: BrihtmanusForms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Beorhtmann
Phillimore edition: Brictman
Alecto edition: Beorhtmann
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk | 8,6 | Grundisburgh | Brihtmanus | Beorhtmann 'of Grundisburgh' | Æthelric of Burgh | Roger the Poitevin | - | 0.06 | 0.18 | 0.18 | B | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||