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Cynegar

Discussion of the name

Cynegar is an Old English masculine name derived from cynn ‘rank, family, kin’ and gār ‘spear’.

The only entry in the PASE corpus is Cynegar 1, a catch-all category for occurrences of this name in DB. However, Searle notes a monk called Cynegar listed in the Durham Liber Vitae, which shows that although the name was clearly extremely rare it was not entirely un-evidenced in pre-Conquest England (Searle 1897: 155).

Bibliography

DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007):

Searle 1897: W. G. Searle, Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum (Cambridge, 1897)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Chenegar 

Spellings in Exon: Chenegarus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Cynegar

  Phillimore edition: Cynegar

  Alecto edition: Cynegar

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 Devon	Phil. ref. 20,6	Vill Washford Pyne	DB Spelling Chenegar	Holder 1066 Cynegar 'of Washford'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William de Falaise	1086 Subtenant Peter 'of Washford Pyne'	Fiscal Value 0.25	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.25	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Cynegar 2 - Cynegar ‘of Washford’ (Devon), fl. 1066