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Bil

Discussion of the name

Bil is an Old English masculine name either based on bil(l) ‘bill, blade, sword’ or representing a shortened form of a name with that as its first element, such as Billheard or Billnoth.

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

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Bil

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Bil

  Phillimore edition: Bil

  Alecto edition: Bil

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 Gloucestershire	Phil. ref. 68,6	Vill Shipton Solers	DB Spelling Bil	Holder 1066 Bil 'of Shipton'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ansfrid de Cormeilles	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.75	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Bil 2 - Bil ‘of Shipton’ (Glos.), fl. 1066