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Hunwine

Discussion of the name

Hunwine is an Old English masculine name, the first element deriving from either an OE word *hūn cognate with Old Norse húnn ‘bear-cub’ or one linked to the ethnic name of the Huns (Insley 2003: 376; contra von Feilitzen 1937: 295-6) and the second element being OE wine ‘friend, protector, lord’.

There are ten entries for Hunwine in the PASE corpus and one for the form Hunuwine. Of these, all except for Hunwine 1 (eighth-century) and Hunwine 4 (a catch-all category for instances of this name in DB) occur in eleventh-century south-western contexts; to these can also be added the Hunewine in a post-Conquest guild at Broadclyst, Devon (Insley and Probert: forthcoming).

Bibliography

Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23 (Berlin and New York, 2003)

Insley and Probert forthcoming: J. Insley and D. Probert, ‘The post-Conquest guild-lists from Exeter’ (forthcoming)

von Feilitzen 1937: O. von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book (Uppsala, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Honeuuinus, Onouuinus 

Spellings in Exon: Honouuinus

Spellings in IE: Hunuuinus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Hūnwine

  Phillimore edition: Hunwin, Hunwine

  Alecto edition: Hunwine

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 Cambridgeshire	Phil. ref. 44,2	Vill Toft	DB Spelling Hunwinus	Holder 1066 Hunwine 'of Toft'	Lord 1066 Wulfric, abbot of Ely	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Erchenger the baker	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.20	1066 Value 0.60	1086 Value 0.40	Confidence B	Map
Shire Dorset	Phil. ref. 55,36	Vill Ringstead	DB Spelling Onouuinus	Holder 1066 Hunwine 'of Ringstead'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 unnamed wife of Hugh fitzGrip	1086 Subtenant Ralph the steward 'of the wife of Hugh fitzGrip'	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 2.00	1086 Value 2.00	Confidence C	Map
Shire Wiltshire	Phil. ref. 50,5	Vill East Kennett	DB Spelling Honeuuinus	Holder 1066 Hunwine 'of Kennett'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Hugh l'Asne	1086 Subtenant Alice, abbess of Winchester	Fiscal Value 1.75	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Hunwine 11 - Hunwine ‘of Kennett’ (Wilts.), fl. 1066
• Hunwine 12 - Hunwine ‘of Ringstead’ (Dors.), fl. 1066
• Hunwine 13 - Hunwine ‘of Toft’ (Cambs.), fl. 1066