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Lothen

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

The name Lothen was Scandinavian in origin and is usually discussed under its normalized ON form Loðinn. It started out as a byname meaning ‘the hairy one’ but came to be used as an ordinary personal name. Other English Lothens gave their names to the parish of Londesborough (Yorks. ER) and to fields in at least two townships in the West Riding (Fellows Jensen 1968: 190). A Danish Lothen raided along the coasts of Kent and Essex in 1048 (PASE: Lothen 1), and a pre-Conquest sundial in the church of Great Edstone (Yorks. NR) is inscribed with the name Lothan, evidently a variant spelling (PASE: Lothan 1). No other persons of the name are currently recorded in PASE.

Phillimore uses our preferred form, Lothen; Alecto instead uses a hypercorrect ODan spelling, Lothæn.

Bibliography

Fellows Jensen 1968: Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Loten

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Loðinn

Phillimore edition: Lothen

Alecto edition: Lothæn

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. 8,2	Vill Golborne Bellow	DB Spelling Loten	Holder 1066 Lothen 'of Golborne Bellow'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh, earl	1086 Subtenant William Malbank	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.25	1086 Value 0.30	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value