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Gunni

Gender: Male

Author: CPL

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

The masculine name Gunni is a short form of the various Scandinavian names in Gunn–, the first element a word meaning ‘battle’. It probably originated in Denmark and was in use in England during or soon after the Danish settlement of Lincolnshire, giving rise to two pre-Conquest place-names in the county. The difference in the twelfth century between its widespread use in Lincolnshire and limited use in Yorkshire suggests that its take-up may have been restricted (von Feilitzen 1937: 277; Fellows Jensen 1968: 116–17). Pre-Domesday instances in PASE are confined to a moneyer working at Bedford c. 1000 (Gunni 3) and the ‘earl’s companion’ buried under a sophisticated and expensive grave-stone at the Old Minster, Winchester, in the early eleventh century (Gunni 1; Tweddle 1995: 278–80 and illus. 509–13).

Bibliography

Tweddle 1995: Dominic Tweddle, Martin Biddle, Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, and others, Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, IV: South-East England (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy)

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: Gunni, Gonni, Gunus

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Gunni

Phillimore edition: Gunni

Alecto edition: Gunni

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 Buckinghamshire	Phil. ref. 57,17	Vill Caldecote	DB Spelling Gonni	Holder 1066 Gunni 'of Caldecote'	Lord 1066 Alric son of Goding	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Swarting, king's thegn	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 2.50	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Norfolk	Phil. ref. 4,23	Vill Suffield	DB Spelling Gunus	Holder 1066 Gunni 'of Suffield'	Lord 1066 Ralph the staller	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Alan, count	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence A	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 29,1	Vill Walton in Gordano	DB Spelling Gunni	Holder 1066 Gunni the Dane	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ralph de Mortimer	1086 Subtenant Richard de Barre	Fiscal Value 3.50	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 3.50	Confidence A	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value