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Jorain

Discussion of the name

Jorain is an Old French masculine name derived from Continental Germanic *Gotramn and comprising the elements guot ‘good’ or got ‘god’ and hraban ‘raven’ (von Feilitzen 1937: 301; cf. Forssner 1916: 127).

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

Bibliography

Forssner 1916: Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916)

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: Juran

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Juran, Jorain(?)

  Phillimore edition: Juran

  Alecto edition: Juran

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 Hampshire	Phil. ref. IoW6,7	Vill Wolverton	DB Spelling Juran	Holder 1066 Jorain 'of Wolverton'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzStur	1086 Subtenant Jorain	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

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
Shire Hampshire	Phil. ref. IoW6,7	Vill Wolverton	DB Spelling Juran	Holder 1066 Jorain 'of Wolverton'	Lord 1066 Edward, king	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William fitzStur	1086 Subtenant Jorain	Fiscal Value 1.00	1066 Value 0.50	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Jorain 2 - Jorain ‘of Wolverton’ (Hants), fl. 1066