Sigewulf

Male
CPL
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Discussion of the name

Sigewulf is a masculine Old English name formed from the elements sige (‘victory’) and wulf (‘wolf’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 363). Although both elements were productive in forming names throughout the period in which names are recorded, Sigewulf itself was not among the commonest names, with only fifteen examples from charter witness lists and the main narrative sources between the 780s and the 1060s (Sigewulf 1–12, 14–15), besides rather a large number (seventeen) in the original core of the Durham Liber Vitae (DLV: II, 149). Besides the solitary example in DB, its continuing use in the eleventh century is attested by a moneyer at Watchet (Som.) under William I and William II (EMC).

Bibliography

DLV: The Durham Liber Vitae. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII: Edition and Digital Facsimile with Introduction, Codicological, Prosopographical and Linguistic Commentary, and Indexes, ed. D. W. Rollason and L. Rollason, 3 vols. (London: British Library, 2007)

EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc

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: Siulfus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Sigewulf

  Phillimore edition: Siwulf

  Alecto edition: Sigewulf

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
Sussex 9,109 Playden Siulfus Sigewulf 'of Playden' Edward, king Robert, count of Eu - 4.00 6.00 0.18 A Map
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