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Offa
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Discussion of the name
Offa is an Old English masculine name of uncertain derivation. It may have arisen independently from more than one origin and the most likely explanations are a development from a Germanic stem *ub‑ ‘malevolent, unfriendly’, a pet-form of names such as Osfrith, or a short form of names with OE wulf as first or second element (Redin 1919: 101-5; von Feilitzen 1937: 334-5).There are eleven entries for the name Offa in the PASE corpus, all of which pre-date the eleventh century except for Offa 11, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB. This suggests that the name was unusual and perhaps becoming rare by the time of the Conquest.
Bibliography
M. Redin, Uncompounded Personal Names in Old English (Uppsala, 1919)von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937), pp. 334-5.
Forms of the name
Spellings in Domesday Book: Offa, OffoForms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Offa
Phillimore edition: Offa
Alecto edition: Offa
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 |
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Gloucestershire | 39,20 | Upper Slaughter | Offa | Offa 'of Slaughter' | - | Roger de Lacy | - | 1.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | B | Map |
Norfolk | 9,168 | Bedingham | Offo | Offa 'of Bedingham' | Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury | Roger Bigod | Offa | 1.00 | 0.50 | 1.50 | B | Map |
Suffolk | 53,5 | Flixton | Offa | Offa 'of Bedingham' | Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury | Eudo fitzSpirewic | Geoffrey 'the man of Eudo fitzSpirewic' | 2.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | B | Map |
Sussex | 11,8 | Treyford | Offa | Offa 'of Treyford' | Æthelric, bishop of Selsey | Roger, earl | Stigand, bishop of Chichester | 2.00 | 0.75 | 0.75 | B | Map |
Totals |
Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)
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 | 74,13 | Claydon | Offa | - | - | Offa, free man | - | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.07 | C | Map |
Totals |
Subtenant in 1086
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 |
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Norfolk | 9,168 | Bedingham | Offo | Offa 'of Bedingham' | Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury | Roger Bigod | Offa | 1.00 | 0.50 | 1.50 | B | Map |
Totals |